LinkedIn Paranoia
Hey guys
First year analyst at an MM (not the most prestigious group but really fun I'm loving it) very little finance experience and essentially...
I was at a non-target then went to a sem-target for a masters. I was wondering about LinkedIn because it's made me feel kinda bad about my experience.
Most of the guys at my bank have really exciting experiences and went to really good schools so I'm feeling like I should have done more.
I was wondering if it was worth me putting this mentorship thing I did with a big Fin Risk company down (it was for 6 months but was actually organised through my uni so not exactly with the company but the whole program was done with my mentor at the company the university just acted as the intermediary and provided the certificate of completion - essentially boiled down to Deloitte's SA during corona: mentoring, guidance, workshops, training and some networking events)
I was also thinking of just removing some of my experience from LinkedIn but then I think it would look suss and actually I really enjoyed some of my xp's (emphasis on some)
I understand how ridiculous this will sound to most of you but idk I've seen other people mention stuff like this but usually it's just one minor thing on a big list of crazy xp's
Sorry in advance and thanks for any advice
I wouldn’t worry about it. My LinkedIn just has my college (I include SAAC and my sport only, no gpa), hs (don’t need it but it’s more “prestigious” than my college and it doesn’t hurt), my retail job, my internship (group not listed), and my FT bank (group not listed) and I still get random people reaching out and lots of recruiters. I don’t have a bio, recommendations, or endorsements.
Some people have 5 finance internships but I still ended up at the same firm as all of them. You also need to remember that everyone is stretching the truth on their resume and LinkedIn. So what if the kid who sits next to you had more internships. For most people, the work they did their freshman and sophomore summers wasn’t super meaningful and while they might have flashy titles “private equity summer analyst” or “local family wealth management intern,” they honestly didn’t change the world or learn anything you can’t pickup in a week. (Speaking from experience, I had a on-campus job in the controllers office where my job was literally typing in receipt numbers into an excel sheet, the total amount of money spent, and what departmental budget it came out of)
Hey yeah to be honest we're in similar boats (my high school was a bit more prestigious) I had no idea how far people would go on LinkedIn with all this crap I had pretty normal jobs and was pretty honest on my cv. True about people embellishing after reading one of the summer IB interns profile he appears to have spent 1 day in different companies and the odd week here and there and has described the experiences with things like "gained in-depth knowledge of synthetic equities" lol no you probably just watched a guy work for a day and got him some coffee. Yeah I had a kid from my school reach out to me the other day asking about a specific division and I was still on private whilst updating my LinkedIn. F it i'm just gonna include everything and leave it lol. Thanks
This is an area where completeness and intentionality matters. You don't need a twelve page, scrolling LinkedIn page. If you have a few sections, complete and polished up - you will be just fine and ahead of 90% of people out there.
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Is there a reason you don't list the group you're in for FT IB? When networking, I try to target people in specific groups and don't want to waste someone's time who's in say industrials (I don't have any interest in industrials). I feel like a lot of people don't list their groups but I'm not sure why.
If it's a relevant experience to what you do today and where you wanna be career-wise in the future, do put it in. I don't think any experience is a waste. Even military which is remotely related to finance is typically looked upon favorably because it equips you with a different skillset and makes you stand out from the crowd. As long as you can make a coherent narrative about your career out of it, I would consider it a plus on your curriculum vitae (literally, course of life). Happy to discuss more at Finchat on Google Playstore, realtime finance chat 24-7
Really rate this perspective. Yeah it was Finance related when I said Fin Risk company let's just say I meant akin to Reuters, Refinitiv, Bloomberg, S&P types of companies and it was training for 6 months (albeit less finance and more soft skills/networking) but it will definitely be a line in my education section - probably not a whole paragraph though - thank you!
At the end of the day you're all in the same seat. The longer I've been in my career the more slimmed down my LinkedIn has actually become I use it more as a quick snapshot than basically a clone of a resume. Just because everyone else feels a need to jerk themselves off in a public forum, doesn't mean you need to also.
I like this - I think because I'm new and quite young it maybe still has weight but it's not like I have bad experiences or went to terrible universities (my masters is highly regarded) I think it's just because everyone around me looks so impressive it can be a bit daunting. We had an internal corp fin meeting with the wider group today and some new bankers were introduced on a PPT. I know one of the guys and they didn't mention his degree (although he is slightly older but they mentioned the other older guys degree bc it was top 3 in my country) they also mentioned the two analysts they brought bc again top 3 universities in my country
The only thing that matters is the number they give you early next year. Banking is an incredible equalizer, and I've seen Ivy League "geniuses" with every advantage wash out and non-target state school kids flourish. At the end of the day, what will differentiate you will be attitude, passion and continuous forward progress. LinkedIn doesn't mean s***. Go crush it!
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