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interested in this as well. how do u spin a PE internship into your why banking story?
Maybe it would be great for banking? It would make sense as most PE shops recruit from banks right?
I faced this exact same question 3 weeks ago and sent emails to HR of some of the banks. Most of them (in their response) said that if you want to go into IB-M&A-advisory type work then you should try to get that specific type of experience.
I am currently doing a winter IB internship and wanted to do a summer internship as well to strenghen my candidacy. And hence thought it MAY be desirable to get a summer internship in PE. My thesis was that banks would welcome PE experience.
But the feedbck is that banks value IB experience as it signals consistency and focus.
Yeah but it seems the skill set you develop in PE is very similar to banking.
Yeah but it seems the skill set you develop in PE is very similar to banking.
^^^true because the i'll be doing financial modeling, company analysis, due diligence, sitting in meetings, working very closely with 4 general partners..so the experience could even be a bit better than a small boutique ib internship. but i just dont know exactly if i could spin that experience into answering the why banking question.
Why cant you say, you wanted to do an ib internship but the right oppertunity didn't come along and you knew that PE would be a way to build a similar skillset
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