Hi all,
I’m currently a 2nd year associate at a MF in London. Through some stroke of luck and networking efforts, I’ve managed to stay in touch with a partner from another MF. Said partner invited me for a coffee chat a few weeks out. We have been in touch for the last couple of years now but mostly through major life / career updates. This person gave me incredible advice when I was looking to break into PE, but I have nothing in common with them.
How would you tackle this chat / what would you discuss at the chat? I am pretty happy with my current role and do not see myself moving anytime soon. However, I am quite new to PE (and come from a different background) and would love to build a long term connect with this person. Any tips on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Oh this is a good one. It's not that obvious as the partner has invited you, rather than vice versa.
My view would be to meet and do the niceties, and update him or her on your journey and how you're finding the new role. During this, he or she may interject with their own agenda, if they have one.
If they have an agenda, I suppose you hear that out and respond based on how your feel, but knowing that you can fall back on "let me think about it, can we meet again in a week?"
If they don't, then I'd straight up ask if they'll be open to having you as a mentor (if they truly invited you to coffee and have no agenda, then likely they'll be open to this and it'll be a fantastic outcome). Then ask your mentee questions and ask to meet once a quarter.
there's a chance the partners is trying to recruit you
You have tons in common: you spend 10 hours everyday doing the same type of work. :-)
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