Business communication, time management, and client interaction. Real-World Application:
The training begins with a rigorous 4- to 6-week intensive New Analyst Program designed to level the playing field for all hires.
The "training manual" is essentially the skeleton key to the Goldman way of thinking. It is designed to turn a smart college graduate into a functioning deal machine in 6–8 weeks.
Jamie had survived the gauntlet: seven rounds of interviews, a case study on a cross-border LBO that made his classmates weep, and the soul-crushing wait for the offer letter. Now, as a first-year analyst in Goldman’s Financial Institutions Group, he sat in the sterile 38th-floor training room in New York, clutching the sacred text: Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Training Manual – Version 14.2 .