PubFin IB → Private Credit? Advice

Disregard the title - I started my career in public finance as a summer analyst/returned full-time, transitioned to M&A at a Big 4 Corporate Finance, then moved to a middle market direct lending fund (currently a director). 

• Paths: my path was untraditional in that a year after I joined, our department got acquired and my team moved to the Big 4 Corporate Finance team under the leadership of my amazing managing director at that time who saw it as a business need. From there, I underwent traditional buyside recruiting and landed in my private credit role. This was back when private credit was in its infancy and competition a lot more scarce, but I'd say the path nowadays is to leverage connections within university/friends of friends, etc. in addition to going to the recruiter "gatekeepers". Private credit firms like us still uses a recruiter to find junior talent and you would be hard pressed to convince firms that your DBC modeling is relevant.
• Resume: would try to highlight any work on debt service coverage, leverage, modeling that has been done, as well as stuff like strategic advisory work that you might be doing, M&A.
• Technical prep: would leverage the WallStreetOasis prep work and understand at a basic level debt modeling (revolver mechanics, term loan amortization, etc.) and using assumptions to build forecast, but really the focus as is typical are working on deals, and how to think about downside risks when you are given a CIM.
• Recruiter/fund recs: there are lots here that you can search for funds on pitchbook, a lot of people are raising funds these days, and recruiters are also discussed on these forums (my personal favorite is Odyssey Search Partners).