Looking for a PE Mentor to HELP me
Hi everyone
I'm enrolled in a Masters programme in Europe. Next year I'll take a gap year.
I'm 100% convinced I want to do my whole career in PE.
Looking for someone to help me succeed those interview to take one of the few "PE Analyst" spots available out here.
Thank you in advance.
BB Berto (my PM are opened)
these can only be the words of someone who has never worked in PE
Gosh... I forgot this forum was so harsh sometimes.
To be honest with you, I have nothing against IB but I don't want to follow the "traditionnal path".
I prefere creating value than synergies which explains my wish. If one day I feel experienced enough, I could leave for a C-Role in a portfolio company.
Coming back to your comment, why making a whole career in PE not suitable?
It's not a knock on you specifically but many people without IB/PE experience idolize it and when you say terms like "creating value and synergies" it comes across as a misunderstanding of how you'll be spending your time in the field. There are a lot of reasons to pursue PE, but the value creation that you speak of will include 60-80 hrs a week creating mundane models, memos, and other paper pushing tasks…most of which will not create value for companies. If you like investing, like reading/understanding about different business models, like money and are willing to sacrifice a lot of your time, etc. then pursue it, but don't pursue it because "synergies”.
Also no one should be 100% sure about spending their time in one field.
A lot of amazing PE mentors in Europe right here: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/career-services/mentors
Good luck!
Patrick
Patrick you're a legend but I don't have the availabilities for those services...
You sound entitled with your demand for people to HELP you. Go on LinkedIn and cold email people yourself
Most people who currently work in PE broke into the industry by sending out hundreds of emails trying to get people on the phone for 15 minute chats. That's the route these days.
Don't get me wrong but I totally know I need to do this.
But first of all, I would like to have a full understanding of the job itself. I won't do networking calls if it's to sound absolutely dumb and ask generic questions.
lol no it’s not, a vast majority didn’t network for shit and just placed in oncycle / off cycle
What you mentioned is a small minority
99% of people in PE come from IB where everyone networked to get there
Obviously come from a nontarget, had to network like crazy just to find an internship in EB.
Sometimes during these calls it turned out to become an interview, testing my whole valuation and processes knowledge.
It’s easier to help if you have specific questions.
How to get expertise on a certain field ? (ie : infra etc...) ?
What makes a candidate "stand-out" ?
Do you think that a candidate out of graduation with relevant internship xp in PE can fit ?
I'll answer some qs if you want. I pretty much went directly into PE. I started my career in private credit at a 10bn ish alternative asset manager. Didn't like credit and lateralled (after 6 months) into the MM PE fund of the same asset manager where I worked for 2.5 years. Interestingly I just (last week) moved into M&A IB as I definitely realised that I was getting pigeonholed into MM PE for the rest of my career and wanted some variety. Very rare to see people come in to PE as a graduate but it does happen occasionally, mainly as interns who we then converted to full time as they were properly hot shit. I definitely think it makes sense to do IB first purely because of deal flow which relates to experience
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