Comments on: 7 Questions You Won’t See Answered on M&I in 2009

By: M&I

M&I — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:34:17 +0000

This post is quite old – there are a couple articles on the topic of lateral hiring / networking in from other fields / banks:

http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/lateral-hiring-101/

http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/non-target-bulge-bracket-investment-banking-offers/

http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/investment-banking-engineer-no-finance-background/

I would write something on this topic but I feel like much of the advice would be repeating what you see elsewhere on the site – aggressive networking focused on alumni, setting up informational interviews during your downtime, and so on.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:01:53 +0000

Hey,
I have a question that I don’t think you’ve answered. I got a summer analyst opportunity at a top middle market bank. People in the industry have definitely heard of it but I’d like to eventually get to top tier PE firm (I’m legitimately interested in PE long term). Since PE shops are so small I think working for a bulge bracket might be the best way to get headhunters to work hard for me when I try to go from IBD to PE. Any ideas on going from middle market summer analyst to Bulge Bracket bank full-time analyst? Thanks! This site totally helped me get the summer analyst position by the way.
-Jason

By: Inquisitor

Inquisitor — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:22:50 +0000

Oh, you’ll see…