A lot of students wonder what they should do when they don’t get any financial modeling experience at their internships.

After all, that’s what your interviewers want to hear about when you talk about what you’ve worked on, right?

What do you do if you just don’t have much or any financial modeling responsibilities at all though?

Hear me coach a student on what to do in this situation, which happens a lot more common than you’d think.

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Those of you who have been following me for awhile know how much I’m against doing financial modeling courses when prepping for summer internship interviews.

But recently, a student of mine asked if the same still applies for full-time recruiting.

Given a lot of summer internships are wrapping up and a lot of you are about to recruit for full-time positions, I thought this was a timely topic.

Hear my thoughts on whether it’s important to be great at financial modeling for the full-time interview process.

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Our client Steve came to us at the beginning of junior year, after having failed a couple of superday interviews on his own.

He was referred to us by our client Bradley after seeing how much better Bradley did during with recruiting.

Despite coming to us quite late for help, hear Steve talk about how he was ultimately able to secure a middle market offer that ended up being a phenomenal fit with his background.

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Did you know that when you are answering interview questions, it’s actually possible to lead the interview in the direction that you want them to go in?

The benefit of doing this is that you can almost steer them into asking you the questions that you want to be asked, which results in less curveball questions and you giving better answers that you’ve already prepared ahead of time.

But this is more advanced and is easier said that done, so how exactly do you do it?

Hear me coach one of my students on how to do exactly this.

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In an acquisition, cost of capital is one of the most important assumptions that go into determining whether the deal is favorable or not.

Cost of cash is the cheapest, followed by cost of debt, and then cost of equity (most expensive).

But when it’s a private equity firm that’s the buyer in the deal, they actually prefer using debt over cash in all of their transactions. Why is that?

Hear me explain the difference between an M&A deal and a LBO deal when thinking about cost of capital.

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Our client Shawn was a sophomore international student with a 3.2 GPA when he joined our program.

Hear his advice on how to recruit effectively as an international student when the bar is higher due to the need of a visa sponsorship.

Also hear how he was able to get not just one, but three different offers despite the odds being seemingly stacked against him.

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A lot of people get confused by the concept of an LBO, or leveraged buyout.

It’s basically just describing the mechanics of how a private equity firm acquires companies using debt to fund a part of the transaction, and then pays down that debt using the free cash flow generated by the business.

But why are LBOs so effective? What are the different ways that a private equity firm can make money through an LBO?

Hear me explain the 3 main drivers of LBO returns.

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Our client Nishant is an international student from Dubai who secured his summer internship offer from a bulge bracket bank.

As someone coming from a non-target school without much finance experience, hear Nishant discuss the importance of not being content with the status quo, why you can never have too much help, and how he stacked the odds in his favor to maximize his chances, and ultimately got the job.

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These days, it’s no longer enough to have just one relevant internship on your resume if you want to be a competitive candidate. Most of the top candidates we see have at least 2 to 3.

So if you just got your first internship, when is the right time for you to start thinking about your next one?

How long do you need to stay at the current one, and when should you start searching for the next one?

Hear my thoughts on the sweet spot for internship length so that you can really maximize your resume to its fullest extent.

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When you’re networking, it’s always the easiest to network with people that you already know on a personal level.

The problem is, a lot of times the people you know personally are either still just summer interns, or maybe incoming analysts or analysts who just started on the job.

Can these people actually help you though? Is it worth it to spend time and effort networking with them?

Hear me share my thoughts on this exact topic.

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