Serious Help Needed: How to up modeling skills?

I'm a couple of months into being a second year and I feel my modeling skills suck. I have not been staffed on a lot of modeling projects (unlike other analysts from my group) so I feel very behind. It is becoming a problem because I do need more guidance and I am not sure what I can do to work on it. I am afraid that I am becoming a burden on other people.

Bear in mind that when I try to model clients on my own, no one has the time to review it so it doesn't make any difference if I am still repeating my mistakes over and over again and noon pointed them out. It is making me very anxious and I hate not feeling confident in my work. I'm sure people feel it too but I am trying so hard.

Any tips/advice appreciated

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try and replicate a deal model - obv you won't have all the context for nuanced one off things you are doing but take a set of mgmt projections on your drive and replicate the analysis on the fairness opinion or accretion/ dilution deck - something that has already been scrubbed/signed off on.

You should start trying to volunteer for more technical projects and maybe start with bus dev and talk to your staffer about it. You will need to ramp at some point and the longer you wait the more challenging it is going to be if you're not up to speed.

 

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