What did you put on your resume for deals/transactions? Is it just completely exaggerated and a lie? If on-cycle is this early, how do you guys even phrase what you put down since it's only 1 month in or maybe even less and you probably haven't done much or have gotten a co-analyst staffing?
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Is it really Sept/Oct? I think the earliest it ever pushed pre-Covid was Halloween weekend, most people had something to talk about by then. It bounced way later with Covid and was more like early spring this year. You might be worrying about nothing.
That said, back when you were taking HH meetings your first week on the desk, you would typically just put pretty generic bullet points of your responsibilities and no specific deals. Maybe 1 or 2 limited deals if you did fulsome work as an intern/starting FT, but they know you aren't closing deals in your first month.
wdym by generic bullets of responsibilities on the first week? like what we're expected to do in the group? Can't imagine working on anything real at that point...
Ask a few of the senior analysts for their resumes and see what their non-deal-specific bullet points are.
Yeah you won't be working on ridiculously complex stuff at that point, but you can still put 3-4 bullet points about advising clients in XYZ space, performing valuation using XYZ methodologies, doing market research, and preparing board/investor materials. You probably did that as an intern. Obviously don't put "perform LBO modeling" if you haven't done it.
Really though, on cycle is unlikely to be the minute you start. Even if it moves 6+ months forward from last year to Halloween... which is probably not happening... you will by then have at least 2 "deals" to put on there (not announced or even fulsome, but did some modeling work and know enough to talk about).
Just get your new job on your resume and write a few quick bullets in case HHs ask for it early.
Lol “fulsome” . Spoken like a true boomer
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