I currently work part time at a boutique IB/ corporate advisory firm while finishing my last year of university. The firm specialises in small and microcap companies, so the deals I've worked on are never above $10m give or take.
I've got a summer stint lined up for Big 4 CF so I'll be leaving this place in a few months, but just in case I don't get a return offer from the Big 4 firm, I need to spice up the good ol' CV with deal experience.
Question is, with such small deals, is it OK to put them on my resume to start FT hunting? I feel like I'll come off as weird if I put these deals straight out of university. Or even the size of the deals being so small?
Thanks!
Why would it be weird? If it's experience you've gained from the internship, I don't see why there'd be a problem
Rhetorical question: do you think this will help you stand out against other students in a way that's relevant to IB?
Haha fair point. Thanks for putting it into perspective for me!
Put them on there and know them inside and out.
This is exactly what I was going to say. Having deals on your resume this early on could be a huge boost to your resume but it is likely the first thing everyone is going to ask about to make sure they are legit and you actually worked on them.
It looks like other posters have answered your question, but just as a small FYI, the size of transactions does not matter- it's the experience you gained that counts. If all you did on a $10B transaction was edit slides in PowerPoint, it really doesn't hold a candle to the experience you could have gained by managing the due diligence process in a $1M transaction.
Thanks Sil. This was another one of my concerns, and I'm happy I'm handling lots of the front end stuff on these small deals.
Something else to keep in mind for this stint and moving forward: Typically smaller deals have less public disclosure if any. When writing deal experience on your resume, client confidentiality is 10x more critical for advisory work for SMEs than multi-billion dollar corps. That means deal size, client name/names of prospects, specifics of the deal, etc cannot be leaked at any cost.
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