What's the best way to answer ''What do you do in the IBD'' / "Describe IBD"?
Hi,
what is the best way to answer the question(s) above in 30 seconds or less?
thank you in advance!
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‘Realtor’ for businesses instead of houses.
Never heard this before but I like it. Easy/simple answer people outside of finance can relate to. sb
I see someone's been reading M&I
Bill didn’t come up with the simile (nor did I, obviously).
Depends how much you wanna dumb it down, but I basically just say you help companies buy other companies and use the example of Disney acquiring Marvel and say your job is basically trying to value the income of all Avengers movies from now till forever. You sell the excitement behind the job by saying you get to hang out with the people who own the rights to McKinsey Mouse and Spider Man. That's how i explained it to my sister at least
Solid explanation, but i LOL'ed at "McKinsey Mouse" - savior of the consultants
I make pretty slides worth billions of dollars ;)
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