Comments on: Post-Layoff Options: 8 Strategies to Pursue If You Get the Axe (and 3 Mistakes to Avoid) http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/post-layoff-options/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-layoff-options Discover How to Get Into Investment Banking Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: M&I http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/post-layoff-options/comment-page-1/#comment-9155 M&I Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:16:25 +0000 http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/?p=592#comment-9155 Getting into banking might actually be easier, because PE is hard without a banking background first. For your resume, just focus on 2-3 specific M&A deals you worked on and try to make what you did sound more quantitative than it actually was. Getting into banking might actually be easier, because PE is hard without a banking background first. For your resume, just focus on 2-3 specific M&A deals you worked on and try to make what you did sound more quantitative than it actually was.

]]> By: JR http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/post-layoff-options/comment-page-1/#comment-9148 JR Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:35:35 +0000 http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/?p=592#comment-9148 I'm a lawyer who was laid off in the past year from one of the largest Philly firms (a nationwide firm). I almost exclusively worked on private equity M&A along with some securities work. Prior to law school I worked for 3 years on a trading desk at a global commodities trading firm. I would love to break into small / middle market PE but don't seem to possess the requisite background. Any advice regarding PE or another realm of finance that may be easier for me to break into? Any suggestions for ways of bolstering my resume would be great. thanks I’m a lawyer who was laid off in the past year from one of the largest Philly firms (a nationwide firm). I almost exclusively worked on private equity M&A along with some securities work. Prior to law school I worked for 3 years on a trading desk at a global commodities trading firm.

I would love to break into small / middle market PE but don’t seem to possess the requisite background. Any advice regarding PE or another realm of finance that may be easier for me to break into? Any suggestions for ways of bolstering my resume would be great.

thanks

]]> By: M&I http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/post-layoff-options/comment-page-1/#comment-6651 M&I Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:41:50 +0000 http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/?p=592#comment-6651 It's rare but it does happen - I would not worry about it too much if your main concern is not doing well on exams... usually they only fire people for repeatedly screwing up on the job. It’s rare but it does happen – I would not worry about it too much if your main concern is not doing well on exams… usually they only fire people for repeatedly screwing up on the job.

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