IBD Industry Group is different from PE industry focus?

I’ve seen a quite a few people go from a specific industry coverage group in IBD -> a PE firm that covers a completely different sector. I was wondering has anyone on this forum had experience making that transition and could maybe shine some light on what the process was like?

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