What's the oldest analyst you've seen at a BB?
I'm considering trying to lateral over from the reputable bank I'll be starting IB in after I get some experience, I'll be a bit older than the average age as I took a non-traditional, entrepreneurial path before deciding on finance.
Getting into a BB is imperative for me, IDC how, for exit opportunities, as I am not from the US and these opportunities would be limited to me.
Any thoughts on scrubbing dates of education/very early WE on a CV to make it appear as though I'm younger? For the record, I'm 27, but I think I could easily make myself appear 24-5, which I think is actually a very big difference in the world of finance.
An1 friend of mine at a BB is 25. I never even knew he was older than normal. I'm not sure what 27 would be.
I could appear 25 I think with some resume finagling.
Well he was 25 but appeared 22 so not exactly the same situation, but I don't think it would be a huge deal for you.
Okay good to know - I have some self taught finance experience starting my own real estate investment firm with millions in AUM and achieved success.
I hope to leverage my relevant IB experience in my first role to lateral into a BB afterwards.
What happened at your own firm to make you want to be an IB analyst?
Was the guy actually from Truist?
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I would do that an am applying to MBAs right now (from before I even landed my role in IB), however, $300K and 2 year delay to starting my career just really scares me…
27 is nothing. Happens all the time. Have seen a mid-30s analyst (not ex-military, just took a different path and then decided he wanted to go back to school and ended up in IB) who was fought for by everyone at the superday and ended up being top bucket his entire analyst years
Your CV is a marketing document, so you can leave stuff off that's not relevant if you want to - so fine to remove school years or non-relevant work exptience. Of course, make sure this is all correctly entered on the application and background check as they will verify that.
Realistically 24/5 versus 27 is not a problem at all. No one will even notice. The bigger hurdle will be just lateraling in from a smaller bank. If you're at a known regional bank or smaller MM, won't be a problem - you may have to give it a little time but will 100% land something eventually.
Damn, really?
You see 27+ at bulge brackets as analysts? The MBA route interests me but it’s delaying me working for 2 years and is so much money.
Im joining what I believe is a very strong group in Canada and I hope to either leverage it for buyside roles or use it to lateral into a BB (in Canada) or in the US where I will then have access to all exit opps in the US.
Yeah shouldn't be a problem and your path makes sense without MBA. Once you have IB experience it gets a lot easier.
FWIW the US visa thing is a nightmare, even if you are a Canadian citizen. Unless you went to school in the US it's quite hard to get a visa, and even harder to move jobs if the BB sponsors you and you want to leave. If you are going BB/US just for the exit ops... be careful, a lot of them do not sponsor and you may have a hard time
Second this. Nobody cares. The only person who feels weird about it is the analyst because up until that point in life, being a few years older than your peers has always been associated with being seriously behind. For example if you're even one year behind in K-12 that's considered quite unusual. But doesn't apply in the adult world, people move careers all the time and start their new career at a later age than someone else who committed earlier. I've seen a good handful of late 20s analysts, all of whom are glad they took that route instead of trying to come in at associate level without IB experience.
My VP (superstar who made VP in 4 years btw wow) started as an Analyst late 20s or something bcos he was ex-military
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