Comments on: Copy This Investment Banker Resume Template to Get Into KKR (Or At Least, Something Almost as Good)

By: M&I

M&I — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:09:50 +0000

Yes, basically LBO-type stuff, due diligence, and so on. If you’ve done any work with investments or portfolio companies you should still list merchant bank as it may help a bit

By: Mack

Mack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:40:32 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply.

How would you define PE-like work? I imagine you are referring to things like LBO and IRR analysis, but to be honest, most of my time spent on PE and IB are the same: grunt work. That said, can I still spin it as PE-work? And would it actually be advantageous to list “Merchant Bank” rather than “Investment Bank” when applying for IB?

Thanks,
Mack

By: M&I

M&I — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:23:53 +0000

Merchant bank is actually quite common to use, if you have PE-like experience you should write that rather than investment bank. Don’t list common items like revenue / COGS, only go into that level of detail when it’s something uncommon, e.g. you looked at a scenario where a company was going to build 5 power plants vs. 10 because a government regulator stepped into squash the deal at the last second or something like that.