Hey guys, I have two full time offers and was wondering which presents better exit opportunities regarding business school and future positions. One is a smaller real estate investment firm with about $6B in assets that does mostly military/student housing and REITS. The other is a f50 financial leadership rotational program. It is not GE but is considered just a step below. Thanks for all the help.
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The obvious question, what do you want do? Are you interested in RE? Because if you are why would you take a completelt unrelated finance rotation job.
Neither presents 'better exit opps' whether b-school or future jobs. They are just different. How you got these offers but are still asking such a question is kind of a mystery to me.
Was not considering real estate until the position was handed to me. I honestly wanted to do banking or consulting but didn't have the grades.
I'd go with the F50 rotational program if I were in your position (i.e. really never thought about real estate). Top MBA programs tend to prefer resumes with elite and/or well known organizations. If you want to do real estate go real estate and forget the MBA. If you want to do banking eventually then go F50 rotational program, go to a top MBA program and then go to an investment bank as an associate.
Completely ignorant to this topic, so I'd really appreciate if someone with some experience can comment on $6B AUM for a real estate fund being small. Maybe I am wrong, but $6B allocated towards direct investment in any single asset class doesn't seem that small.
Last time I checked: JPM Global Real Assets (Real Estate Group): $82B AUM
I wouldn't say $6B is "small" because there are plenty of $100M-1B firms out there. But you have to think big picture when you're talking size.
I would call $6B "mid-sized" and perhaps even "fairly large" if discussing its investments into a super niche market like military and student housing.
6 BN might not be big but it's not small, let's get real.
I agree w VT4E on the career advice, now that I've heard the whole story. Figure out what you want to do but if you're considering a more mainstream path like corporate strat or I banking or something, a more generalist corporate America finance background will serve you well.
If you want to do real estate, do it. If not, don't.
I'm not trying to be flippant or anything, but if you don't care about it, why bother?
Agree f50 will likely play better for MBA so if you still see banking/consulting as your eventual goal, f50 is probably the way to go.
f50 would blow and would just be a bunch of accounting and "rotating".....the real estate job is actually investing.
Real Estate vs. Finance Rotational FT (Originally Posted: 04/29/2015)
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