Too many deals?
So I have an uncanny problem. I did an internship at a boutique and worked on about 11 deals. I only did meaningful work on about 6 or 7 of them. I can speak effectively about 9 of them, two of them I really was too busy to mess with (broad buy-side transactions).
According to M&I format I should start off the internship part of my resume with: Worked on 11 deals, buysides and sellside M&A etc.
My question is, am I opening a can of worms doing that? I currently list the 4 that I worked on the most and put a line in about how many pitches i did and how many we engaged. I feel as though if I put a line saying i worked on 11 deals as an intern, interviewers are just going to grill me.
I was thinking an alternative would be to say I worked on 9 deals, and leave it at that. But am I selling myself short then? I guess I don't know the deal-flow and amount of work that is being done at some of the other shops, so I don't know if it is smart for me to say that I worked on the deal, when in reality I did only a little bit of work. From my view, I think all interns only touch deals a little so its expected but I wanted to get everyones opinion.
Thanks for the help.
Z
The deals that you should put on there are the deals on which you did meaningful work and about which you can speak really intelligently. Personally, I wouldn't put that many, since if I'm looking at a stack of resumes and I see "worked on 11 live transactions" and it's just an internship, I'm thinking there's no way this kid could have spread himself out on that many deals in the span of 10 weeks and actually gained anything. Once it comes to the actual interview itself, you'll maybe be asked to walk through one of your deals, and at that point, the number of deals you did doesn't matter; I'd much rather pick the kid who worked on one deal and can tell me about every single part of that process than someone who says he worked on a lot but can't tell me about any of them to any depth (not saying that that's you).
I'd say 4 deals is more than enough deals; anything on top of that is overkill and might even hurt you if you get grilled about each and every one of them in an interview.
As an anecdote, my college roommate didn't work on a single live deal during his SA at a BB in NYC, and yet still got an offer.
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