Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » wall street http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Honest Cover Letter Charms Wall Street http://kqvt.com/cover-letter-charms-wall-street/ http://kqvt.com/cover-letter-charms-wall-street/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:55:42 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=179133 Summer internships on Wall Street can be difficult to snag, especially if you aren't related to one of the firm's senior executives.

But as an unnamed college student has proved, the really honest approach to job seeking can also work. His cover letter, in which he admits he has "no unbelievably special skills or genius eccentricities" and says he "no qualms about fetching coffee, shining shoes or picking up laundry," was immediately passed around the boutique investment bank he had applied, where it was praised as an instant classic.

]]> http://kqvt.com/cover-letter-charms-wall-street/feed/ 0 Spencer Platt Angry Mom Hires Plane to Fly Nasty Message Over Wall Street http://kqvt.com/angry-mom-hires-plane-to-fly-over-wall-street-with-the-message-you-should-all-be-fired/ http://kqvt.com/angry-mom-hires-plane-to-fly-over-wall-street-with-the-message-you-should-all-be-fired/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:00:55 +0000 Shauna Wright http://thefw.com/?p=27613 At lunchtime on Tuesday, New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan were treated to an unusual sight — a small plane buzzing by the Standard and Poor’s building, towing a banner that read, “Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired.”

Commissioned by St. Louis banker and single mother Lucy Nobbe, who paid $895 to hire the pilot, the fly-by was a reaction to the US losing its longtime AAA credit rating last Friday.

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