I've helped hundreds of kids land Wall Street jobs. Here's how I train them.

Xavier Sztejnberg has helped hundreds of students get internships through his Wall Street leadership program. Xavier Sztejnberg Xavier Sztejnberg founded Wall Street for McCombs, a leadership training program at UT Austin. He's helped hundreds of students land internships and jobs on Wall Street over the past decade. Extensive technical training, a strong alumni base, and good relationships with banks are key. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Xavier Sztejnberg, a finance professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas Austin, who previously worked in M&A. He founded the Wall Street for McCombs Leadership Program in 2016. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity . When I started Wall Street for McCombs a decade ago, we sent fewer than 10 UT students to New York for investment banking.