“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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Ah, private equity. The promised land. What you slave away for as a banker: the chance to become the next Steve Schwarzman. But unless you have an inside connection with Steve himself, you’ll have to go through a few interviews to get to paradise.

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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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