How To Get Into Investment Banking Episode 9: Why I Did Investment Banking
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College students
looking to get into #InvestmentBanking, read below to see why I picked Investment
Banking as a career out of college and why you should too. Investment Banking amplifies
your career and gives you a leg up on what you want to do after your time in Investment
Banking.
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1. I wanted deal experience.
What does this mean? I wanted to work on M&A transactions, capital market
activities (e.g., debt offerings & equity raises), understand how deals
came together from the point of a seller, buyer, and creditors (I worked in
restructuring).
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2. I wanted to develop
a solid technical and soft skill set. Let's break these two down a bit more.
Technical Skill
Set means the following (to me): Can you take a CIM, a 10-K, or a teaser and
extrapolate the given data to create a 1-page write up on a deal or company that
speaks to the merits of the deal (favorable or a negative). Further, can you
leverage excel as a tool to complete an analysis (whatever it might be, e.g., accretion/dilution,
LBO, DCF, forecasting analysis, etc.)
Soft Skill Set means
the following (again, to me): can you take a blank PowerPoint and use it to
convey a story to a buyer or seller to speak to why the transaction or
investment is worthwhile, i.e., should we buy or sell or raise capital or
divest an asset, etc.
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3. I knew I wanted
to be an investor/operator as an "end state" for my career. As I researched
the career of folks that I admire (e.g., Thomas Tull, John Malone, Ken Moelis, Josh
Harris, Louis Bacon, Bob Iger, Neil & David Rimer, Meg Whitman, Deborah
Farrington, Indra Nooyi), I realized most had backgrounds in either consulting/banking/buy-side),
I knew that investment banking was the best place for me to go and start my
career – get my feet wet and then go from there.
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This exercise aims
to further remove the noise from your day-to-day and remain focused on what
matters – getting a job in Investment Banking.
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