Not sure if someone has already asked this question, but here it goes: My background: • Master’s in finance from top 100 but non target school, graduated in 2014 (yeah…I know!). • Had couple of jobs with unrelated experience for totally 6 years. • Got into business valuation 3 years ago and now working in valuation group in a top PE fund. • Solid understanding of deal process, LBO modeling and industry the fund invests in. • CFA charter holder. I understand that my chance of getting into PE deal team is very small with this background, even those small/tiny funds, and I guess I am also too old to get into IB or MBA now. But I still wanted to give myself a year and try the best I can, for opportunities or at least for closure. So I was wondering if there is any way, any chance that I could still make this happen, if yes, what would be best way to do this? Sincerely appreciate any comments/suggestions, good, bad and ugly, no hard feelings.
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