Copy This Investment Banker Resume Template to Get Into KKR (Or At Least, Something Almost as Good)

We’re going to continue our series on investment banking resume templates and go through how you should write about investment banking experience in this article.

You can actually use a similar template for anything in finance, whether you worked on the sell-side or buy-side.

But you can’t use it for everything.

Who Should Use This (or a Similar) Template:

How to Get a Private Equity Job in 2,550 Words

“How can we fight this fight with the brightest and best educated rushing off and working night and day to do private equity deals and derivatives trading?”

-Ben Stein, Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield

Derivatives trading… maybe not so much anymore. But PE continues to be a big draw, pulling in bankers like bees to honey – despite the fact that most firms are barely doing any deals lately.

Yes, we’re at that stage of the year when newly minted Analysts (and some Associates…) are thinking about what they’ll do next, only months after starting out in investment banking.

But no one seems to know much about the recruiting process, how it works, who’s involved, what you need to do, and how long it takes.

Who – Firms & People Involved

How to Ace Your Private Equity Interviews

“Dear Andrew,

Thank you very much for your recent application to the Texas-Pacific Group. Your resume and glowing recommendation from your MD were both somewhat impressive. We applaud your efforts to transition from Banking into Private Equity, it is definitely the right move right now. We were considering extending you an offer, actually, but upon review of the quiz you inadvertently submitted to for the New York Post, we regret to inform you that we will be unable to offer you a position at our firm.

Please note that you did score an 87%, which is nothing to be ashamed of. It turns out to a B+ with our generous scaling, and you know what they say—at least you won’t be lonely at the fat part of the bell curve. We only take A’s though. Have you considered a position at Hellman & Friedman?”

-Only 87% Tool, The Leveraged Sellout

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.