How did someone from a non-target build this resume?

Sophomore year: IB intern at Results International and Stifel

Summer after sophomore year: DCM summer analyst at RBC

Junior year: KKR intern (Client and Partner Group)

Summer after junior year: Goldman Sachs IB summer analyst (financial sponsor M&A group)

Fall semester senior year: KKR intern (Client and Partner Group)

Winter & spring of senior year: part-time IB analyst at Goldman Sachs (Financial and Strategic Investors Group)

Post-graduation: Goldman Sachs IB analyst (Financial Sponsors M&A and Cross Markets Group) for 2 years

Post-IB: Real estate private equity associate at Goldman’s Merchant Banking Division (10 months)

Now: Hotel acquisitions associate at Starwood Capital

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He may be well connected - or, he also may be very good with fantastic interpersonal skills once he got his foot in the door. People who go to non-targets doesn't mean they aren't as bright.

I've gone - non-target --> big 4 advisory program --> small/mid size hedge fund --> BB --> top tier HF. Didn't have a 4.0, didn't have connections. Just trying to show its possible and probable

 

Looks impressive, but not impossible.
I broke into IBD with no internship, no connections, no other advantage than languages and interview skills. My technical skills back then weren't great either. Walked through various finance teams through the years and now I am in PE/VC.

no MBA.

 

That's the path that I'm trying to follow as well. Barring the GPA, mine is pretty good, and went to a somewhat-semi-target public school regionally. Got some BB experience in MO and I'm trying to leverage that intl commercial banking at an MM or IBAB to eventually lateral into corporate on way to IB or straight to IB.

It's good to hear others have been on this very same path! Gives me more encouragement. My only issue is that I'm starting to accrue in years.

 

I'm currently in banking and and in my final year of university at a state university and was wondering if you had any tips on how to make you leverage your commercial banking experience on your resume when applying to positions? Thanks!

 
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I'm currently in banking and and in my final year of university at a state university and was wondering if you had any tips on how to make you leverage your commercial banking experience on your resume when applying to positions? Thanks!

speak to your deal experience and underwriting skills and how it built your understanding of ke4y drivers of businesses, etc.

 

Lmfao just give us his name so we can look him up at LinkedIn at this point, real discreet

 

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