Hey Jason,
Wow, wow and wow! I cannot stress it enough! This article was written just for me!
I am a recent Economics graduate and CFA Level 2 candidate. I have been looking for a job for the past 8 months and had no luck! I had tons of interviews at the big banks and financial services companies but nothing has happened yet!
For days, I have been always wondering what's wrong, why can't I get a job in the field?
Then I have decided that perhaps things happen for a reason and I can spend my unemployment period for actually "know the job" inside out! which means, reading investment books, creating my own equity research reports and building kind of portfolio for myself, even though I don't invest yet, just to show my employer that I did something fruitful while I was sitting at home (except from completing the CFA program and reading books)
So, I have started with reading the book "The Warren Buffet way" which I really like and my next ones would be security analysis, the intelligent investor, interpretation of financial statements, and the theory of investment value.
In addition, I have picked some well known companies on which I would like to write my reports. However, I don't know how should I start! I have never seen an equity research report and was wondering how does it look like, to use is as a pattern for my own reports.
When I was reading about your website that you have created with your own portfolio, I was happy to know that I am not alone and some other people in the world are dealing with the same problem as I am!
Is there any chance to get the address of that website, to take a look on your analysis and then try doing it on my own? How did you build it?
And again, thank you so much for writing this article! I wish everybody who aspire for this kind of job to be lucky enough to read this page.
Looking forward to hear from you!
Thanks in advance,
Yvette