Help! Offer Decisions

Hey all,

So here are the offers that I have:

BB DCM-firm with lots of deal flow BB Equity Research-firm with top ER as rated by Institutional Investor BB Corp Fin-treasury/business strategy Houlihan Lokey FAS Prudential-Buyside Credit Research-high yield/grade *Exxon Mobil-Treasury

So my career goal's to run/manage something someday either a line of business so corp fin or some type of fund ie hedge fund, mutual fund, pension etc. I am strongly leaning towards a BB ER position since I feel I would be developing the skillset that can allow me to either move onto the buyside or into a corp fin role as a financial analyst after 2-3 years should i decide to not want sell-side research. What do you all think?? Feel free to rank these. Then again EM is EM with lots of profits and if I can move up and run a line of business then that sounds interesting and should be lucrative. Perhaps I should shoot for ER covering the Energy sector so I can position for this move down the road?

Thanks!!!

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Best Response

What do you want to do? ER only helps if you wanna do VC. It's a lot about luck too, you have to be in a group that's hot during that time, i.e. healthcare-biotech, greentech. If you want to go into HF, etc. don't pick ER. You will know a few specific companies, and all your time will be spent writing and updating old models, so you won't have much experience with building models from scratch.

I would say go with HL, they do real valuation models, and it has a really good name, and also it's a conflict-free third party, this would align more with your hedge-fund/broader industry/business strategy interest.

But if you're sure you want to go into energy, EM is an accelerated career path for you.

 

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