Summer Intern Challenge held at UBS

16 Aug, 2013

Students at University Business School (Panjab University) were introduced to Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) during their summer internship. Fortunately, Bloomberg Institute was already ready with a summer intern challenge for students all over the globe and students at UBS were encouraged to give the test under this challenge.

The Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) is a free 2-hour multiple-choice test. Every BAT test-taker is anonymously entered into the Bloomberg Talent Search Database. Available to more than 20,000 top firms, the Talent Search allows employers to contact a test-taker for an internship, or full-time position.

Summer Intern Challenge was about scoring among top 100 scorers in APAC region and win an invite to attend a networking event at London/New York. Around 40 students gave this test, many of whom scored very well. Among the top scorers were Jotsaroop Singh & Vilay Gupta, who scored 630 & 610 respectively and received an invite to attend the event.

Photo Credits : Bloomberg

The test was organised by Anurag Sharma (student of MBA-International Business at UBS) the Bloomberg Campus Ambassador for Bloomberg Institute who was later promoted to Team Leader of Global Team of Campus Ambassadors from India, US and Spain. He visited the Bloomberg Headquarters at New York City on 1^st August 2013 to attend the event, where he met students from all around the globe who were also the top scorers among their regions (EMEA-Europe Middle East Africa; North America; APAC- Asia Pacific). The event was hosted by head of Bloomberg Institute, Managing Director of Union Bank of Switzerland(UBS) & a famous wall street trainer were also present to share their valuable experiences with students & also to advise them on how to build their resumes & make the right decisions at right time so that they don’t loose any opportunity. Training The Street (TTS) Founder and CEO Scott Rostan was present to join an expert panel at the Bloomberg Institute’s Summer Intern Challenge to discuss Wall Street training and hiring.

Photo: Training the Street founder & CEO Scott Rostan interacting with students

“It was a life time experience for me. I met senior management from Bloomberg Institute & discussed about back end operations & what they were doing to connect recruiters and BAT test takers through this initiative. Also, new ideas were shared to make the process more efficient and smooth.” Anurag said.

Recently, Bloomberg Institute has come up with BAT from home, where students can give BAT sitting at their home, free of cost. They will be monitored by e-proctoring during the test, which is a tested tool foolproof of any cheating during the test.