“My name is Rebecca Nicholson. I’m a recruitment consultant at Assbury Moron.”  This HR chick has obviously mis-dialed and has no idea that this is not Assbury Moron, or wherever else she’s looking for.
“A recruitment consultant.  A headhunter.  Are you free to speak for a few moments?”
A headhunter! Wow. Ok. Sure you have time to [...]

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Lately I’ve been getting lots of questions on what exactly investment banking Summer Analysts actually do.

As we all know, at the top levels investment bankers are just miniature versions of Ari Gold.

But are summer interns just miniature versions of Lloyd?

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I’ve seen lots of explanations of what investment bankers actually do, but none have seemed particularly good or satisfactory. I think I can sum up what we actually do in 2 words (ok, and 1 picture):

Ari Gold.
If you haven’t seen Entourage (shame on you, but I guess that’s possible), an alternate explanation will be [...]

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