How do you get into one of the Corporate Development/Business Development jobs?
Any experienced people who have worked in one of those positions before?
I am looking for one of those jobs. I have just completed first year of MBA, part-time program. Should one look at internships or is there a possibility of getting a full-time job if you do not have work experience in strategy planning or M&A before?
Any ideas/suggestions etc. more than welcome.!!
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from consulting
Usually..a few ways.
2 yrs at McKinsey, HBS, 2 more years at McKinsey then corp dev for ur client
2 yrs as a banking analyst then straight into internal M&A / corp dev or MBA and then corp dev
i understand your in a graduate program. i did banking and then interviewed for a generalist financial analyst program and was placed in corp dev as an analyst.
i have two senior managers both from Mckinsey >> HBS >> McKinsey >> Corp dev.
There are two junior associates (senior to me) both worked at the company in general corporate finance and ended up here.
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I would recomend trying to
I would recomend trying to get a corporate finance, consulting, or IB internship while you're in school. If you don't have relevent experience this will help.
Usually what I see is they're looking for people who know how to model, vaule company's, pull together research, etc. So focus on building these skills, through course work, internships, etc.
I don't agree that you need to work in consulting to get into corp dev.