Private Equity’s Recruiting Cycle is Ramping Up – ryan
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In Today’s Big Story, Talk is Swirling That Private Equity’s Recruiting Cycle is Ramping Upand recent grads are on Edge.
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Ready, Set, PE
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While Most Recent College Graduats Are Getting Ready for Their New Jobs, A SELECT GROUP IS CONSIDERING THEIR next One.
SOME PRIVATE-EQUITY firms are setting up informal, Introductory Meetings with soon-to-be junior investment Bankers before their caps hit the Ground. These so-calared “coffee chat” are the precursor to interviews for jobs that won’t start for another two years. The process kicking off so early Has Hopeful Finaniers on EDGEBi’s Emmalyse Brownstein, Reed Alexander, and Alex Nicoll Write.
Welcome to Wall Street’s “Hunger Games.”
If the aboves confususus, I don’t blame you. PE’s Recruiting Cycle DOESN’T MAKE MUCH SENSE. Before you start working at your first job (Investment Banking Analyst), you’re already interviewing for your second (Private-Equity Associate).
Take a min to read the last sentiment again if you need to.
Still, That’s How Things offen Work on Wall Street: Always Thinking Two Steps Ahead.
The summer internship that leads to the junior-banker job offfer is offen secured well over a year before it starts. And your best shot at getting one of this is your University’s Finance Club, which you need to start thinking about The Second You Get on Campus.
Speaking of College, You’d Better Plan on Getting Into a Target School if… Well, You Get The Idea.
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PE firms might eventally Find theelSelves Flying Too Close to the Sun.
The junior-banker-to-pe penebag has ben mutually beneficial.
Banks don’t have to worry compression with PE firms for Young Talent. PE firms don’t have to worry training associates on the basics of dealmking.
But the Ever-Earlier Timeline hasn’t gone unnotic, and at the least one high-profile banker has calmed pe firms on it.
Speaking at Georgetown University Last Fall, JPMORGAN CEO JAMIE DIMON SAID JUNIOR Bankers Taking Pe jobs before Starting As Analysts Was “Unethical.”
“I don’t like it, and May Eliminate It Regardless of What The Private-Equity Guys Say,” he added.
To be fair, some pe headhunters tried slowing things down with an industry pact. IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR ONE HEADHUNTER TO BREAK IT.
Banks are in a Similar Conundrum. If they ban analysts from puressuing pe jobs too, they risk lozz out on talent.
AFTER ALL, PLENTY OF ASPIRING Wall Streeheters Just View Banks nor a stepping stone to getting a jab in pe. If they start actively preventing that, what purposes do they say serve?
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