Our client Dylan recently received a bulge bracket summer internship offer despite completely missing the accelerated recruiting timeline and only having a 3.4 GPA.

Hear Dylan talk about his recruiting process and how he was able to turn it around and get an amazing outcome in the end.

He also gives his advice to those of you who are still recruiting. Make sure you check this interview out!

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Most people focus their networking efforts on investment banking analysts because they’re the closest in age and most approachable.

But does this approach work when you’re a non-target student?

What changes do you need to make to your approach, if any?

Hear me coach a non-target student on what she should be doing differently.

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If you are really ambitious with your networking, you don’t have to limit your networking conversations to just phone and zoom meetings.

Once you’ve built up enough networking contacts, you can actually plan a networking trip out to New York (or whatever office location you plan on applying for) to try and meet with your contacts in person.

How do you go about doing something like this? And is it even worth doing?

Watch me discuss the pros and cons of doing this with one of my students.

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Our client Jerry was an international student with a 3.3 GPA who decided to recruit for investment banking pretty late in the recruiting process.

We helped him get two offers but one got rescinded for sponsorship reasons, causing him to delay graduation to recruit again.

Hear how he ultimately got an offer from one of the top middle market banks despite reduced visa sponsorships during COVID-19.

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On the very bottom of your resume, you should have a “Skills and Interests” section. If you have any sort of certifications, that would belong here as well.

How important is this section thought? How much time should you spend trying to beef this section up?

What kind of skills should you be including / excluding?

Hear me answer these questions for my students.

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Aside from your professional experience, your leadership experience is the other really important section you have on your resume.

How do you demonstrate leadership though? What kind of experiences do you need to have?

And do you have to be the president of some club on campus for it to qualify as leadership?

Hear me give our students advice on how to show off their leadership qualities.

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Our client Simarleen interned at Truist during both her sophomore and junior summer.

Unfortunately for her, she didn’t receive a full-time return offer because of COVID-19.

Typically, recruiting for a full-time offer is already much harder than getting a summer internship because there are a lot fewer spots.

Recruiting without a return offer makes it even harder, since banks will question why you didn’t get an offer.

Hear how Simarleen was able to overcome these odds to get an offer from an even better bank.

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Forecasting the revenue of a company is one of the most important things that you need to get right when valuing a business.

However, revenue forecasting is not the same for all businesses. In fact, SaaS businesses have a unique business model that makes their revenue drivers different from that of most other businesses.

Given how popular SaaS companies have become in the private equity world as LBO targets, it’s become more and more important to understand this difference.

Watch me coach a student on how to forecast the topline for a SaaS business.

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In this session, we answer some questions Ximena had about how to ace Hirevues, which are becoming more common as the first initial screen that banks use during the interview process.

She has also started studying for technical interviews, so we answer some of her questions around the three financial statements.

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Investment banking is a pretty tough job, and not everyone is cut out for it.

So sometimes, bankers like to ask “what is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do” to get a sense for how you handle adversity.

If you don’t have a good answer prepared for this question, you risk looking like you’re not banker material.

Watch me coach a student on how to answer this question. I also give him some advice on what to do when a question catches him off guard.

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