What should I do? - Senior at a non-target with a 3.6

I'm a senior at a non-target, 3.6 GPA, Finance major, and upon graduation my most relevant experience will be 2 years at a small boutique IB working on LMM M & A (summer 2010 I was an intern, after summer-current have been part time analyst).

I have a connection at a VC firm in town where I believe I have a chance at working a couple days a week for a couple hours after my MWF classes, which will not interfere with the brief work I do when in school for the current IB I work for. In the event that the VC does not pan out, I have a connection to the angel investors association in town with the same brief time commitments.

My question is, if I cannot secure a spot at the VC firm, will banks give a crap if they see I did analyst work (or whatever work they give me to do) with the angel investors, or is it not relevant enough as I will particularly be wanting to work in a boutique M & A firm upon graduation.

I was thinking if the VC does not work, I have nothing to lose by working for the angel investors. Even if IBs don't care, I will have made some good connections. Also, assuming they give me "analyst" type work my resume will show multiple analyst positions.

Thoughts?

 
Best Response

Since it is a small firm, my time has not been spent doing the "norm", per say like I have read on here. For example, I have never done any modeling. To combat that, I'm planning on purchasing some of the different programs so I have some experience before I graduate.

Initially, my time was spent analyzing companies for a buy-side client in a specific industry. I built the prospect lists, verified the contact was correct, obtained the contact's email address, ranked the prospects in order of what I though was of best fit for the client, etc. The rest of the time was spent doing other various analytical tasks.

This summer, I built essentially a cold calling platform from the ground up, I believe the term is "dialed for dollars". I tested various methods to penetrate the gatekeepers, various voicemails, etc. through thousands of calls and at the end of the summer wrote a 27 page training manual for my position complete with rebuttals to all objections, ways to handle various situations (Ex. I called into a company and when I asked for the contact I was informed he had just died!), and so on.

While I felt this was valuable, I realize that only a small bank would have someone as young as myself doing this, from what I understand someone at my age would NEVER speak on the phone this early.

Since I started there in May there have been a couple deals done, most notably one large deal but I did not have much work involved with it. The firm is a rather young firm as well, having most recently picked up some of its best clients, so before I graduate I'd assume there will be more significant deals done.

 

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