How to Spin Your Way Into Anything, Unhelpful People When Networking, Living the Dream, and More Questions and Answers

I’ve seen a lot of “creative” comments and ideas in response to the articles on spinning your way to success in investment banking and networking – only problem is that some of these ideas are just plain bad.

While others could potentially work… if you spin them the right way.

Meanwhile, read even more about networking, living the dream, and my own secret plans for world domination below.

The Banker Formerly Known As Tiger Woods: How Much Can You Spin?

Bottle Service, How to Become a Guest Star on Entourage, Buy-Side Lifestyle, and How NOT to Be a Tool When Networking… and More Q&A

With summer internships drawing to a close and another round of full-time recruiting about to start, I’m getting a lot of questions on last-minute networking, how to prepare for interviews if you’ve had an internship, and what to do if you’re not getting a full-time offer.

And then there’s the usual bout of bottle service, “lifestyle” and related questions…

Buy-Side Lifestyle

1. I heard that when you get into private equity, you instantly start dating models and everyone from taxi drivers to restaurant chefs begins to worship you. Does anything else cool happen?

Private Equity Case Studies in 3,017 Words

Since I was getting approximately 53 emails per day about this one, I decided to make it easier and just tell you everything you need to know about private equity case studies.

Lots of people are going through private equity recruiting this time of year, so let’s take a look at what to expect and how to tackle the case study – a critical part of most buy-side interviews.

Note that these “case studies” are completely different from the “case interviews” you get in management consulting (not that I would even waste space on consultants here, but just to clarify…).