Looksmaxxing Will Get You Into IB Faster Than Your 400-Question Guide
Looks matter. A lot.
Any objective person knows this:
- Better-looking people get hired easier
- They’re perceived as more competent (yes, even if they aren’t)
- Clients like them more
They literally earn more over time
So if you’re optimizing:
- your CV
- your networking
- your technical prep
…but ignoring how you present yourself visually?
You have:
- Guy A: knows every single LBO nuance, but looks like he hasn’t seen daylight since 2019
- Guy B: 9/10 swede 195cm, says he plays paddle in his free time
Who gets the offer?
Exactly.
What to do ?
- You save your bonus
- Instead of buying another watch or blowing it in Mykonos
- Get Nose job, chin implants if, double jaw surgery if you have to.
Hair, skin, teeth, posture, clothes.
Also explains why certain SSE; CBS, place into London at all.
Final RULE::::
We do not talk about Looksmaxxing Club.
If anyone ever asks:
- “Do you have a skincare routine?” → No bro just water
- “What do you use for your hair?” → Nivea Sport
- “Gym?” → Just play some sport casually
Deny everything. Always. Deny deny deny
If you disagree, your iq is room temp.
I miss the life I had before reading this
Based on the most helpful WSO content, the topic of "looksmaxing" and its impact on breaking into investment banking (IB) has sparked significant debate. Here's the distilled insight:
Does Looksmaxing Help?
Practical Tips for Presentation:
The Reality Check:
In summary, while looking your best can complement your efforts, it's not a substitute for the core skills and attributes required to succeed in IB. Balance is key—focus on what truly matters while maintaining a professional and polished appearance.
Sources: Does ‘Looksmaxing’ substantively increase your odds of converting an internship?, Q&A: Corporate Strategy Manager at F100 Entertainment Company (came from Non-MBB Management Consulting), IB SA No Offer -> Major Entertainment Strategy + Perspectives on Recovering from Failure, I got an offer, heres how you can too! (MM NYC)
Buying mouth tape off the internet then posting this is crazy. I feel like people who say things like this are out of touch with reality.
Yeah hit yourself in the face with a hammer, dumbass
Don't give away the secrets my dude
+1 to this. Also knowing how to carry yourself in a professional and social setting. I definitely have imposter syndrome on my current project at work but I get along well with leadership and my shortcomings are rarely called out vs. what I've seen with other coworkers that have a habit of ignoring some social cues that makes them come off as aloof.
The "halo effect" as a psychological phenomenon is surely real, and there's some level of merit to investing in one's own appearance to "dress to impress" and look better for interviews.
By the same token, it's simultaneously amusing and concerning to see our youth appropriating the terminology of some meth-addled, alligator-shooting, publicity hog.
This is true, as someone on the benefiting end of it I’ve experienced it. My boss’ boss pulled strings to promote me fast and he always made positive comments about my appearance. Every happy hour he’d grab me to go around and talk to girls lol
The irony is tho all you queers going to the gym all the time, wearing tight clothing, having a greasy ass face from all the skincare products look worse because you’re visibly trying to attain something outside of your nature.
I’ve never done any of those things, you either got it or u don’t. Focus on other stuff
U got the jist, always deny deny deny
Absolutely nothing wrong with going to the gym mate
Out of curiosity...
Why always deny? What will happen if people find out?
Can only be seen as insecurity or weakness.
That and also people value effortlessness in others and dislike those who put work in. The latter makes them feel insecure.
You ever know someone growing up who was an average student or athlete but grinded to become a top performer? Odds are he got labled a try-hard. Same thing applies here.
This is true
I think it's hilarious that the clowns who follow this stuff will order untested peptides from a random factory in China/India and inject themselves in the ass because they believe it makes them look hotter. Genuinely as delusional than the plastic surgery addicts out in LA/MIA.
Just being fit is 90% of the way to not being ugly.
Damn, all my helpful comments have been removed by the mod team, the censoring culture on this forum is aggressive even for North Korean standards. What happend to free speech?
The way the mods work on the off section doesn't really make much sense.
There was an exodus of people from the site whenever there was a change to the mods...you can find it pretty quickly if you look it up
(Because the mods are AI bots looking for keywords)
Yep looks definitely matter and have a subconscious effect on how you're going to do in interviews. The simplest "looksmaxx" is just having well-fitting, tailored clothes. Makes a huge difference.
Can't wait to wake up an caffeinemaxx before valuemogging all of the excelgooners at the investing bank today
I don’t have a horse in this since I’m not a guy, but I think you’re confusing favourable response to the confidence that comes from being a naturally good looking guy all your life, and “just” being a good looking guy.
If you have to get extreme plastic surgery for a career that is not about looks, then your self-esteem is pretty low. If you have some major jaw deformity and harelip or something, go correct it, but smashing your jaw over insecurities is crazy.
I’m really surprised by this trend taking off because men usually get a free pass on looks. Just don’t look like you crawled in off the street and confidence takes alot of men very far. And people accept that confidence without question.
Men do not get a free pass on looks anymore, unless you are jeff bezos, I dont think that wanting to improve your looks has anything to do with low self esteem. Women have been looksmaxxing since the dawn of time, obviously they didnt call it that. Banking is obviously not about looks, but ceteris paribus, looking better only has advantages.
Didn't Fit and Fearless make up looksmaxing before Clavicular?
Any of you bring up looksmaxxing in an interview and you'll be walking out the door maxxing
... yikes bro
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