Back Office | Mergers & Inquisitions

Home Articles About Contact FAQ

The Latest

Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, Part 1 - Recruiting

How to Break Into Private Equity Right Out of Undergraduate with No Investment Banking or Private Equity Internships

How to Pick Your Group as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst

Why You Can’t Get an Investment Banking or Private Equity Job via Recruiters – And What to Do About It

You Didn't Get Any Investment Banking Summer Internship Offers. Now What Do You Do?

Posts Tagged ‘Back Office’

You Didn’t Get Any Investment Banking Summer Internship Offers. Now What Do You Do?

Summer Internships Plan B Summer internship recruiting is over.

Bankers have come to your campus, conducted interviews, finished recruiting, and now they’re back to their pitch books.

But you don’t have any offers.

What now?

No Summer Offers vs. No Full-Time Offers

Read the rest of this article

Tags: Back Office, investment banking, investment banking summer analyst, investment banking summer internship, understanding investment banking
Posted in Getting A Job, Investment Banking Internships, Recruiting | 60 Comments »

No Matter How Badly You Fail Your Investment Banking Interviews, You Can’t Do Worse Than This

Forget about conquering your interviews and fixing all your mistakes.

Sometimes it’s fun to sit back and laugh at how badly you failed.

Or at least to engage in some schadenfreude.

Story #1: Holla Back, Office

This one took place when I was interviewing for every single position under the sun: banking, sales & trading, hedge funds, consulting, and reality TV hosting.

Read the rest of this article

Tags: Back Office, investment banking, investment banking interviews, Japan, private equity interviews, understanding investment banking
Posted in Interview Tips | 38 Comments »

You Didn’t Get Any Full-Time Investment Banking Offers. Now What Do You Do?

“Don’t Panic.”

Or not.

If full-time recruiting season is over and you don’t have any offers, you should be panicking at least a little.

While summer interns who don’t get return offers have a few months to fix the situation, your options are more limited.

But that doesn’t mean you have no chance of getting full-time offers – so here’s what to do.

Read the rest of this article

Tags: alumni network, Back Office, Business School, cold-calling, investment banking, investment banking interviews, investment banking resume, Master's Degree, telling your story, understanding investment banking
Posted in Networking | 58 Comments »

Mergers & Inquisitions Core Content

Learn Financial Modeling

Discover how 3 clients won 5 investment banking and private equity offers... in the midst of the worst recession in decades.

Learning financial modeling doesn't have to be hard - it's easier than the other guys make you think.

Learn financial modeling and break into investment banking and private equity right here:

Break Into Wall Street

Become a Networking Ninja

Discover how to break into finance - even if you have a 3.0 GPA from an unknown school and no industry connections.

Networking into investment banking doesn't have to be hard - you just need to use the right strategies.

Become a Networking Ninja and break into investment banking without killing yourself right here:

Break Into Investment Banking

IB Interview Guide

Interview coming up?

Forget about The Vault Guide. If you want something written by an industry insider and based on experience interviewing hundreds of candidates, The Breaking Into Wall Street Investment Banking Interview Guide 2.0 is your only choice.

Great interview skills separate those who get offers from those who never hear back.

Discover how you can land investment banking offers with my interview guide.