Where can you realistically go with 1 year of IB experience?

I'm at a shitty bank and I don't want to stay here. I also don't really want to do banking for another year.

Total full time experience is ~ 2 years. Would I be competitive for corp dev associate/manager positions, or some other kind of roles?

I feel like the exit opportunity is just not really there. Tbh, don't care about PE at all. 

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Corp dev would love to have you. I'd apply to every senior analyst or associate job you see, for manager they will want you to do 2 full years in banking.

Corp strategy, finance analyst/associate at an interesting startup are all common exits. Start looking and applying, keep your search broad, once you do a few interviews you'll have a better idea of what direction you want to do.

 

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