Comments on: How Investment Bankers Read Your Resume http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2008/01/10/how-investment-banks-read-resumes/ Career advice for ambitious college students and recent graduates: how to get a job in finance and how to maintain your sanity. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Inquisitor http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2008/01/10/how-investment-banks-read-resumes/#comment-1393 Inquisitor Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:30:36 +0000 http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2008/01/10/how-investment-banks-read-resumes/#comment-1393 Glad you like the site. Working at Big 4 gives you an advantage over someone with no business/finance experience (e.g. someone who just worked at non-profits or did technical work) but it doesn't put you on par with those who have had previous banking/PE experience. Definitely still worth applying as accounting is actually more relevant to banking than "finance" is - most of what we do is accounting-related. Glad you like the site. Working at Big 4 gives you an advantage over someone with no business/finance experience (e.g. someone who just worked at non-profits or did technical work) but it doesn’t put you on par with those who have had previous banking/PE experience. Definitely still worth applying as accounting is actually more relevant to banking than “finance” is - most of what we do is accounting-related.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2008/01/10/how-investment-banks-read-resumes/#comment-1392 Ryan Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:07:43 +0000 http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/2008/01/10/how-investment-banks-read-resumes/#comment-1392 I am a rising senior and am currently interning at a Big Four accounting firm. Though accounting is fine, I am more interested in finance. Will working at a Big Four give me any advantage (or a better chance, which may be a better way to put it)? I do not attend a target school like an Ivy or MIT, but I do attend a smaller, liberal arts college with a very strong accounting department as well as numerous alumni spread out across finance, from the bulge firms to the smaller players. I know that the easiest way in the door is an internship, but I was smart (stupid) enough to accept the offer from the Big 4 firm because... well... they offered it to me very early - plus, they were more than generous with the wage. Essentially - will working at an accounting firm give me a leg up, or will they toss me into the "non-banking experience" category? By the way, I just discovered your site and it's pretty fixating - I have a bunch of shit to do today but I just can't quit reading. I am a rising senior and am currently interning at a Big Four accounting firm. Though accounting is fine, I am more interested in finance. Will working at a Big Four give me any advantage (or a better chance, which may be a better way to put it)? I do not attend a target school like an Ivy or MIT, but I do attend a smaller, liberal arts college with a very strong accounting department as well as numerous alumni spread out across finance, from the bulge firms to the smaller players. I know that the easiest way in the door is an internship, but I was smart (stupid) enough to accept the offer from the Big 4 firm because… well… they offered it to me very early - plus, they were more than generous with the wage.

Essentially - will working at an accounting firm give me a leg up, or will they toss me into the “non-banking experience” category?

By the way, I just discovered your site and it’s pretty fixating - I have a bunch of shit to do today but I just can’t quit reading.

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