An to VP Accelerated Promotion

What is the fastest way to get promoted from An to VP? What skills or characteristics do early promotes have? Would lateraling down every few years be a good strategy? I have met a few people that have been promoted to VP, after spending 1-2.5 years at Aso. These individuals were at specialized shops or had a real hunger for the business. Current shop has long promotion timelines, and I've always had a goal to make VP within the first 4-5 years of my career. 

 
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You can shave a year ish off total by lateraling, but if you make more than 1-2 moves early in your career you're seen as a a flight risk.

I've generally found people who skip around and are really young VPs often have big skill gaps... IB/PE are not like S&T where you can get promoted incredibly young - that extra year or two really does a lot for development and some 26 year old VP is just going to be well short of reps versus all of your peers. Honestly, even if you move for an early promotion, a lot of places you end up making that year back up because you're not ready for the next step.

If your shop has long promotion timelines that might be a reason to leave for a promotion elsewhere, but I think you are way too caught up in titles. Your focus should be getting to a shop that has good long-term growth prospects for you, not just a VP title. It becomes a lot harder to move at that point with long-term comp plans starting to come into play, so jumping around just to say you got VP is not a good strategy in the long term

 

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