Just signed an offer for SA 2024 at a major American bank, but have been struggling to explain to my family and friends that I am not working as a bank teller. Any thoughts or tips on how I should go about trying to explain what I'll be doing in Spanish
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Congrats on Wells Fargo
“You know how real estate agents sell houses on commission? I do the same thing, except my boss sells other peoples’ companies for them, and we make a commission.”
“Sell other peoples’ companies? How does that work?”
”Imagine there’s a business guy who founded a widget factory worth $X million; we can help him sell it and take a percentage of whatever price we get for it.”
Extremely poor analogy of what investment banking is.
Frankly, I don’t think there’s a better overview in this thread. The Spanish language answer below still makes it sound like commercial banking. The other answers are not serious at all.
Selling something and taking a commission is not complicated. That’s M&A for you.
Bank tellers don’t make $100k base
Ayudas en los inversiones Que companias hace, como comprando otro companias, o edificios y cosas como asi.
Eres el bankero Que buscas la plata que ellos necessitan, hablando con companias de inversion para connectar tu cliente con ellos.
^thats what I told my grandma lol
Show em your base boy
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I'd just go with the bank teller, bring them some logo pens once and a while. They'll figure it out pretty quickly.
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