- Tech VP with experience across US, London, & Dubai offices
- Got offers from many bulge-brackets & elite boutiques
- M&A focused + IPOs & Leverage Finance experience + Tech, O&G, Renewables, Infrastructure
- Led my team's recruiting (interviewing & case studies) for analysts & interns. I have many rigorous case studies I can test you on
- Went to a semi-target university - i.e. had to push harder & therefore developed extensive & intelligent networking skills
- Extensive behavioral & technical interviewing skills having been religious in my preparation as well as having done +100 interviews across all banks
- I focus on understanding the psychology of selling yourself in general & in an interview - and in my opinion, this supersedes anything else
- My response to the classical "Tell me about yourself" question was a key driver in all the offers I got; with a memorable interview with a Morgan Stanley MD responding: "I am very impressed by your speech, I don't have any more questions, let's get to the technical part"
- A friend failed to get any offer from over 10 banks he applied to over 2 seasons - Trained him before an upcoming interview with BAML & got an offer thereafter
Reviews for this mentor
The resume review was extremely helpful. He was able to tighten up my resume and better convey my professional experience in a clean and concise manner. I’m very happy with my resume and believe it will greatly benefit me in the recruiting process.
I did online sessions with him to help improve my behavioral responses in interviews, and he was very helpful. He really knows what the interviewers are looking for and was able to help improve my interview answers so that they could be as strong as possible going into recruiting.
In the end, I was able to secure an offer with a bulge bracket bank in NY. Overall would recommend him as a mentor.
I wanted to say thank you so much for your help. I just received an offer from a bulge bracket bank in New York to be a summer investment banking analyst, and I wanted to share the good news with you.
I just wanted to thank the team and my mentor, in particular, for offering help and guidance with resume reviews and rewrites.
Upon registering for WSO and requesting help with the resume, I got a very swift response with the chance to set a convenient time for the call and preliminary questions and suggestions of what I should prepare and think about before the call.
The chat itself was swift, with clear explanations from him as to what changes are necessary and him laying out the standards a resume should follow to be noticed. The positive changes proposed by my mentor now seem evident, with a more straightforward presentation and more impactful language, which translated my experience much better on paper.
The whole process was constructive and insightful. Also, I'd like to thank him for all the additional advice and encouragement. It was straightforward and frank, precisely what was necessary.
Highly recommended! Diligent and sincerely interested in helping his mentees. Initially, I worked with another mentor that told me that my intro story was good, until this mentor completely revamped it, and just now, I see the tremendous difference.
We also worked on my scripts for why IB and why this firm. This mentor provided invaluable suggestions and advice regarding my overall career path. Their honesty and blunt approach were particularly refreshing and beneficial for me.
I am late to recruiting season and was looking for a way around that. The mentor crafted an intelligent plan on what I need to be doing in the next 1-3 years to ultimately land a top-tier IB position.
I thought my responses to the behavioural questions were good enough until I heard his feedback. He completely revamped my responses and feel much more confident now.
The mentor deeply understands interview psychology and refines your answers to come across as an experienced banker rather than just some academically gifted student like everyone else.
He has been an amazing mentor and significantly value-added during my systematic investment banking process. He helped me quickly identify my areas for improvement. He gave me insights on tougher conceptual investment banking questions, but more importantly, to have a banker mindset when answering questions—my stories and responses and briefer and to the point to hit home runs when speaking with bankers.
I am amazed by his dedication to his mentees to go above and beyond and the invaluable advice and feedback given to us during the sessions.
He reviewed my resume, prepared a step plan and during two iterations:
- refined quite a few bullets to make them clear and concise
- significantly improved and polished the format
- asked for follow-up input incl. relevant deals credentials, explanation of unclear points etc. to be sure that everything is made to measure and perfect.
I very much appreciate his input and would gladly use his assistance again.
The mentor significantly improved my resume, taking certain work experiences that appear mundane and expressing them in a compelling way. Since then, I have landed several interviews.
We also did a mentor session, where he completely revamped my old ineffective answers! He helped me tremendously in addressing behavioral questions, telling my story, and selling myself in a way that ticks the requirements of the interviewer.
Has my highest recommendations!
Top-class service. I was so grateful that he provided me with the exact answers he used during his time for the 3 most important behavioral questions (Tell me about yourself, Why IB, and Why X Bank). They were really compelling to the extent that they helped me land an internship already. I now enter interviews with confidence as I have something much more impressive than the previous vanilla answers I used before.
Overall - completely revamps your approach and gives you the intelligence to charm the interviewer by coming across as a knowledgeable and experienced banker that knows the ins and outs of the industry as opposed to (as per the words he uses) "not just another ambitious college student".
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The WSO mentor service runs at a very slight profit (~5-10% net margin) in order to help motivate amazing professionals to provide great (free) advice in the forums (many mentors have green "mentor" buttons next to their usernames) which strengthens the entire WSO community. Luckily, there is a surprising number of elite professionals within the WSO community that love giving back to motivated candidates. We also recently automated the mentor matching with an algo that helps reduce the manual work needed on the backend should a requested mentor not be available. Prices range from as low as $57 up to $997 depending on the package you purchase and the mentor you select. Given the success of our service and the number of repeat clients we have, we know that we can afford to run on thin profit margins and serve thousands of applicants. We also know that many of you will follow the advice of our mentors and invest in additional courses and/or services from WSO.
After checking out, your request will immediately be sent to the mentor you selected. You will be expected to fill our some basic information (location, industry preference, etc) along with upload a Word version of your resume in order to help the mentor decide if they feel like they are a great match. As soon as they accept (usually within ~9-12 hours), an email will be sent making an introduction. Your mentor will introduce him/herself and then proceed to review your current resume and/or offer times when you can connect for a mentor session. Over the following days, you will schedule a time that is mutually convenient for you initial phone call to go over what you need help with (mock interview, career consultation and/or both). If you would like to continue with this mentor, you can schedule more hours anywhere from 1 hour to 3+ hours with him/her over the following weeks & months.
Typically the match happens within 12hrs. If your preferred mentor has not responded within 9 hours or they indicate they can't take you on as a mentor, we will notify other top mentors that have the most in common with the mentor you selected (based on our matching algo). These backup mentors will indicate to you if they are available and you have the choice to move forward with one of them, get a refund or wait longer for your preferred mentor. If for whatever reason we cannot match you in time and/or there are no mentors that are available that you'd like to work with, we will refund your purchase in full, no questions asked.
We have an incredible team of 1,000+ dedicated mentors across top firms all around the world. Our #1 goal is to make sure you are placed in the hands of the most competent and detail-oriented professional in your specific target industry. This coupled with our strict process ensures a smooth and thorough experience. Why do we use actual professionals? The answer is simple: they are the ones ACTUALLY SCREENING APPLICATIONS for their own firms! They know what it takes to make it out of the trash pile and into the interview pile. On top of this, since we have been doing mentor sessions for over a decade across THOUSANDS of clients, we are able to immediately identify a top mentor and feed them more clients to ensure happy customers like you (due to our strict screening process). Our team includes investment bankers at all the top bulge brackets and elite boutique banks as well as private equity, hedge fund and VC professionals at the most prestigious funds. We also have reviewers at the top management consulting firms in the world, elite prop trading firms, top corporate finance roles as well as other related finance careers.
Usually these are all self-limiting beliefs, but if you're unsure if we are a good match for you, please send us a quick email to [email protected] and we can send over some bios if we think there might be a potential good match for you.
Too Young / Too Inexperienced: We do NOT recommend our mentor service until you at least have at least some relevant WORK experience that we can leverage. For the young clients out there, this means an internship, ideally in your target or related industry. If you are still in high school, it is unlikely that you have this experience. The earliest we'd recommend doing a mentor session is early freshman or early sophomore year as you prepare for summer internship recruiting. If you have no relevant experience then it probably doesn't make sense to sign up for the service. Our mentors are amazing, but they aren't magicians. If you tell us you really want to be in Investment Banking or Private Equity (for example) and everything in your background points to law or medicine, it's going to be an uphill battle. On the other hand, if you have unrelated experience but you have started the transition process by taking relevant classes and joining relevant clubs and associations, we'd love to work with you. You may not be the most competitive candidate, but we will highlight the most relevant education and functions at your current job that would translate well across industries.
Too Old / Too Experienced: We DO recommend our mentor service for more experienced professionals that are looking to make a transition or have an interview coming up. We have several very senior mentors that can answer the tough questions and make sure you are up to date on the latest trends in your target industry. However, before you move forward, we encourage you to give yourself an honest assessment. If you are looking to make the transition and have not made any steps outside of considering this mentor program, you probably aren't ready. If you've taken steps (education, new degrees, courses, etc) and feel like you're ready, we're on board and eager to help!
Yes, but if you have a negative attitude you are unlikely to have success. If you think a mentor session is an automatic referral, please don't bother to hire us.
Yes, our mentors often do refer our clients for open positions at their firms (over 20%), however, this should not be asked of our mentors to avoid a conflict of interest and it should not be expected as part of the service. It is up to you to impress the mentor if this is your goal, however, we believe you can gain much more out of the experience by being honest about your weaknesses and concerns with the mentor so there can be an open dialogue on how to improve your chances.
The only discounts are for larger packages and more hours purchased at once. This is an incredibly labor intensive 1-on-1 service using finance professionals that typically make well over $200/hr and are doing this primarily to give back.
This is a personal question and the answer is naturally subjective. If you are serious about landing a job in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, trading, asset management, management consulting or any other competitive industry, it's more than likely that the answer to that question is a resounding "YES".
Career services advisers at your school are not screening applications for interviews...neither are your classmates. If you do happen to have a friend in the industry, are they going to take the hours necessary to give you a realistic mock interview? Odds are that their time is limited outside the office and if they do give you some guidance, it won't be as thorough as our expert mentors. If you look at the competitive nature of recruiting nowadays, why would leave your application up to chance when many of these jobs pay well over $100,000?
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