Our Curriculum

 

Personal Finance

Building financial literacy can be one of the greatest challenges for college students. Our education series helps members gain competency in many aspects—student loans, budgeting postgrad, and more.

Investing

The new member education series will include a crash course to making your own investments and understanding the financial markets.

Building a Professional Network

From networking in a virtual world and finding a mentor to crafting an effective LinkedIn profile, members will be given a toolkit to successfully building and maintaining a professional network.

 

Career Exploration

Members will have the opportunity to learn from the current executive board as well as guest speakers about different career paths within business, and how to break in. Several industries of focus are investment banking, consulting, real estate, sales and trading, wealth management, and others.

Internship Recruitment

Navigating recruitment for summer internships will have great emphasis in the PDOW curriculum. Members will learn how to curate resumes and cover letters and strategize recruiting for their industry of choice. Additionally, members will have access to interview guides and have opportunities to practice and hone interviewing skills.

Guest Speakers

Each semester, members will have the opportunity to learn from guest speakers about topics of interest, such as building a business, managing your own investments, and a variety of other topics.

A selection of the firms that our active members and alumni have professional experience at: