Can someone help "BS" my resume bullets for this $10bn buyside deal?
Hey guys, so I am a first year IB analyst in NYC editing my resume.
I was pretty lucky to be on a buyside advisory deal where our financial sponsor took private a company for $10bn. Issue is maybe I am not that lucky because the financial sponsor had 11 other banks to advise this deal for them. Meaning, I literally did not do shit. For this entire $10bn+ deal I did maybe 2-3 hours of work on it. My work was just random valuation requests from the buyside firm saying things like "can you benchmark these comps" "can you set up a precedents backup"
What bullets can I put down to "bs" this? I will of course read up on the deal extremely extensively so I am comfortable talking on it. Do we think this is just too risky in general and I should not even list it?
IF HELPFUL: I am not targeting PE or HF at all, so feel like those 2 would dig the deepest and grill me the most.
I would not put this on your resume. It's far better to have a $500m deal or a fulsome unnamed project that you can talk about than bombing interviews because you didn't do anything on this. Even for some random corp dev or FP&A job, someone along the way will 1000% dig into a deal like that. Even asking questions like "can you walk me through this deal and your role on it" literally any follow-up questions about the process or your tasks will torpedo you.
It's better to undersell on your resume and overdeliver in the interview
Thank you for the response and perspective. I think I 100% agree with you. Better safe than sorry.
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