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“It’s great to work at a boutique investment bank,” asserted Todd with a cocky smile, tightening his belt to reflect his smaller belly. It had been one of those New York male-anorexia and exercise weeks. The next week, though, he would popping a couple of shirt buttons after a few days of depression gorging.
If you want to get into investment banking, you need to get 3 simple steps right: gain access to recruiting channels, win recruiters’ attention with your resume or CV, and ace your interviews. If you haven’t been able to get into the field thus far, you’re probably doing one of these wrong.
You need to follow 3 simple steps to get into investment: get access to recruiters, get their attention with a solid resume, and then succeed in your interviews. Getting any one of these wrong will mean failure.
What does an investment banking analyst actually do? There’s a ton of misinformation out there about what you actually do in investment banking, especially at the junior levels.
Hardly anyone understands how to actually write a successful investment banking cover letter.
If you’re still looking for a job, good for you: there’s no problem with that, and there are still some opportunities to be found. But you’re much more likely to be fired these days than you are to be hired.
Recently, private equity has become one of the hottest fields for finance professionals to move into. Despite the credit crunch and relative lack of deals these days, aspiring young investment bankers and businessmen and women of all types still want to move into the industry.
No one knows for sure what will happen in the long-term, but here’s what we can say about the next few years.