Career Mentoring - Compliance?

For those that have worked full time in IB and offered career mentoring services to prospectus applicants, have there been any compliance issues with your employers? What is the go-to procedure if you were to pick up this side hustle?

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Speaking about side-gigs more generally, if you want to be by the book you can fill out an outside business activities form with compliance which will likely have to be signed by your manager as well. Compliance with approve no problem as long as it's not engaging in broker-dealer activities.

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