“I really enjoy it,” he says, folding his arms and lying back in his chair with a contented grin. “I’m in [private equity] because I like to be excellent and to win.”
-Steve Schwarzman, Fortune Magazine Interview (March 5, 2007)
If you want to be like Steve here and become King Of Wall Street, your first step will be tailoring your resume to get those private equity interviews and break into the industry.
Sure, you did a great job with your investment banking resume. You got into a top group on Wall Street, or even if you didn’t, you at least managed to land a job at a boutique investment bank.
But if you want to be King, you have to think about your resume once again.
And with private equity recruiting season having just started, I figured a discussion of private equity resumes would be a good way to start the week.
In many ways tailoring your resume for buyside jobs is similar to crafting the perfect investment banking resume.
But it’s different in one critical aspect: you have to focus entirely on your investment banking experience rather than trying to be inclusive of everything else you’ve done.
Sure, for MBA admissions or jobs outside finance, show the whole picture. But for private equity jobs, your investment banking and deal experience are all that matter.
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