Looking for recs on how to spin a career move that at the time didn’t feel wrong, but in the context of what I want to do next, I’m constantly having to explain myself. In fact I’ve had to do this so many times that in my own head, it’s affected how I reflect on that experience myself. I personally don’t feel it was wrong per se, but my read of the room whenever I’m being interviewed is people being like wtf did you go work there or do that. So what’s the best way forward here? Spin it in a positive light but not in a BS way that a forward PE guy would call you out on, or humbly admit that you think it was a bad move in retrospect?
Btw, the move was to a small no name fund that made me a very lucrative financial offer at the time, and I love money, so I chased the money.
Assuming it was a smaller sized fund than the ones you are now pursuing I would think you could just pitch it as having seen the opportunity to be a chance to get more responsibility and be more “entrepreneurial”. Might not be true, but plausible explanation without having to say you went strictly for the $$$
ls it taboo though to just say I did it for the money in an industry whose purpose is to make money?
Despite us all being in this field at least in part for the $$$, it is still frowned upon to reference as a reason for taking a role. This may change as you become pretty senior, but would steer on the side of caution
Going through the same thing - I had a traditional 2+2 background from GS / MS and then a megafund, after which I joined a startup fund for a couple years that is imploding, and when i currently interview at MFs to transition back, all the cookie cutter interviewers who've never taken a career risk skeptically question why anyone would join a startup (they can't fathom anything beyond working at a MF or ever leaving an MF). I would spin it as entreprenurial experience etc and realized that larger organizations are better for XYZ reasons....seems to be working generally in my interviewers (except for those annoying ones who can't think outside the box).
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