Sick of PPT decks... where to from here?
I’ve hit my breaking point with the endless deck turns and unnecessary wordsmithing of bullets over the last several years.
I am most interested in analytical and investment related work - what post-banking roles should I be considering that would realistically leave me with the least chance of being responsible for owning marketing materials?
Realize that more often than not if you land in a PE role you’ll be putting together investment committee decks but they can’t be as bad... right?
IC decks suck too (in some ways more, because the audience actually looks at them). But not to the same degree re: PowerPoint.
Exactly. And then add co-investor memos, lender materials, dd updates, exit decks, etc etc.
5 years into finance, I think I've created more slides/pages than the bible + encyclopedia combined lol
Lol this is just finance / business, can't avoid PPT...
Though I will say the anal attention to detail in banking is much more severe and unnecessary than it is anywhere else...
Sometimes miss the banking days lol. Could get over with a deck with 10% of thought I put it investment memos now
I'd rather do decks that I have to put deep analytical thought into as opposed to formatting logos to perfect alignment and spending 10 hours finding the perfect stock photo for obviously BS industry trend pages that I know clients will never read or give a shit about
This. Getting staffed with the VP who tries to cram as much in the deck as possible is a nightmare...
But clients (we) don't ever spend more than an hour reading a bank's CIM, so there really is zero point trying to put "analytical thought" into slides as a banker. TBH for banks, as far as making slides go, I think its more of a value-add (no matter how little) to format slides prettier and more reader-friendly than trying to add a worthless analysis (Exactly Analyst-1's point up here)
I miss mindless work haha
Nothing better than sitting around all day to get hit with a random PPT turn at 10pm
Banks aren't hired to "analytical" work. You should understand this ASAP
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