Finance career in Emerging Markets

I'm going down that path myself. You need to be incredibly self motivated and tolerant to rejection. You are going to have to find small deal teams yourself and cold call. Sell yourself. Identify the sorts of skills you need to succeed according to your envisioned mandate/modus operandi and find directors and teams demonstrating this, then prove your motivation to work there. It also depends on the market. You will need to move to uncomfortable and unknown places, your pedigree will mean very little versus your streetsmarts and overall competence with people and most importabtly, diehard, fly-by-night, borderline crazy self-belief and confidence in everything you do.

I recommend reading the book "Frontier" to understand more about just how different this world is. It goes without saying it is incredibly risky, and depending on where you go and what sort of deals you are talking about it can be startlingly dangerous. My personal belief is that - though there are so many variables that interweave into success in such markets you cannot ascribe a single proxy or portent of likely success - if you are someone who excels in highly structured environments like college, corporate institutions with all sorts of supporting infrastructure and competent back-ends, this is not the best path for you. You will need a very potent and personal motivation for why you are shouldering so much risk, and you will need to be truly adaptable and not in the masturbatory corporatespeak sense but really able to operate with very little.

Good luck with it. I'm a long way from success on this path, but I'm always happy to talk more on it. It's not something often discussed, because you need balls of steel and frankly most bankers are risk averse cowards. Again, good luck and don't take no for an answer.

There is an endless number of PE funds investing in emerging markets, what are you smoking