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Fellow monkeys, 

I am a month into my big four analyst program in Corporate Finance, but it has always only been as a means to get into investment banking. 

Can anyone in IB please shed some light on any of these: 

A) How to get into IB from a year in Big 4 (how to position for an offer etc.)

B) Is it a common thing that happens? 

C) Is there anything I can be doing in the meantime to maximise my chance. 

Any help is greatly appreciated

6 Comments
 

have done it personally, best bet is to get significant deal experience in the current job and hopefully wait until a deal has closed so you can talk about it in excruciating detail in interviews

try to target M&A groups and your ability to hit the ground running through your experience running a sale process/managing the VDR etc. etc.

general consensus is that lateraling in as an experienced analyst is very much doable given you are already doing IB work

 

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