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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