Exit Opportunities
This is where you find everything related to those golden exit opportunities – how to write your resume and interview for them, what it’s like working on the buy-side, and how much your hourly rate improves over investment banking.
Plus, tips on business school, dealing with headhunters, and more.
Business School
- Can You Really Use Business School to Re-Brand Yourself and Break Into Finance?
- Positioning Yourself for Business School, Part 1: The Financier
- Positioning Yourself for Business School, Part 2: The Non-Financier
How to Get Into Top Business Schools
- CFA vs. MBA: Which One is Right for You?
- How to Take the GMAT as an Investment Banker
- Which GMAT Course Should You Use to Get Into Business School?
- Should You Get an MBA to Break Into Investment Banking?
Headhunters
- Finance Headhunters: Friend Or Foe?
- Reckoning with Recruiters: How to Outsmart the Sharks and Land Job Offers Without Being Eaten Alive
- Taming the Recruiter Beast: 5 Tips to Preserve Your Sanity and Land You a Job
- Why You Can’t Get an Investment Banking or Private Equity Job via Recruiters – And What to Do About It
The Buy-Side – General
- Finding The Time To Interview (How Many Trips To The Doctor Can You Have In One Week?)
- Investment Banking Exit Opportunities: The Myth Of The Buyside Job
- Should You Start Out In Private Equity or at a Hedge Fund Rather Than In Investment Banking?
Private Equity
- From Cold Call to Closed Deal: How a Private Equity Investment Comes Together, Part 1 - The Idea
- From Cold Call to Closed Deal: How a Private Equity Investment Comes Together, Part 2 – The Deal?
- From Cold Call to Closed Deal: How a Private Equity Investment Comes Together, Part 3 – The Dotted Line
- How to Ace Your Private Equity Interviews
- How to Break Into Private Equity Right Out of Undergraduate with No Investment Banking or Private Equity Internships
- How to Get a Private Equity Job in 2,550 Words
- Mezzanine Investing: Private Equity 'Lite' or More Action for Less Stress?
- Private Equity Case Studies in 3,017 Words
- Private Equity in Emerging Markets: The Fastest Way to 26%+ Returns Even as the Rest of the World is Dying?
- Private Equity in Latin America: How to Break in as a Foreigner without Speaking a Word of Spanish
- Private Equity Resumes
- Private Equity vs. Venture Capital
- So, Why Do You Make Millions of Dollars in Private Equity - And Will It Last?
- Why Private Equity?
- Why You Can't Break Into Private Equity as a Foreigner in China
Hedge Funds & Asset Management
- From M&A Boutique Bank to Distressed Hedge Fund, Part 2: On the Job, Pay, and Exit Opps
- From M&A Boutique Bank to Distressed Hedge Fund: How to Make the Leap, Part 1
- Fund Management, Part 2: Regular Hours, Decent Pay and a Stimulating Job?
- Hedge Funds vs. Institutional Asset Management: Is a Billion Dollars Really Cooler Than a Million Dollars?
- How to Become a Value Investor – Whether You’re Passive, Active, or a Barbarian at the Gate
- How to Break Into a Hedge Fund, Make Enough to Retire, and Travel Around the World Kiteboarding, Paragliding and Skydiving
- How to Start Your Own Hedge Fund, Part 2: A Day in the Life at Your New Start-Up Fund
- So You Think You Can Start a Hedge Fund? How to Become the Next Ken Griffin, Part 1 – Getting Up and Running
Venture Capital
- How to Break Into Venture Capital
- Private Equity vs. Venture Capital
- What Do You Do as a Venture Capitalist?
Corporate Development & Corporate Finance
- A Day in the Life of a Corporate Finance Analyst: Casual Friday, Mocking Consultants, and "Critical Emergencies"
- How to Break Into Corporate Development and Make Bank Without Selling Your Soul
- How to Break Into Corporate Development as an Engineer with No Finance Experience
- Wheeling, Dealing, and Joint Venturing: On the Job in Corporate Development
Real Estate
The Other Path – Entrepreneurship
