We Prepare Students For Success

Investment banking recruiting isn’t difficult in the traditional sense - the questions asked don’t require complex mathematical calculations or some deep insight to answer well. However, there is a lot of ground to cover, there are a lot of things that need to be done correctly, and there is a lot of bad information out there.

The investment banking industry is highly fragmented, but there is a tremendous concentration of deal flow going to a small number of firms. The lion’s share of the value you get as a junior investment banker comes from the experience you have on the job, so while the monetary compensation doesn’t change much from firm to firm, your access to information and learning experience does. We believe it is in your best interest career-wise to get the best start possible.

In many ways, school clubs are aligned with their students. But the ultimate goal of the officers in the club is to maximize the number of students who get placed into the industry. On the margin, they don’t want one student to get many offers because that takes away spots from others in your class, and they generally don’t care if you get the best offer you can.

Student officers typically overemphasize their influence on the recruiting process - investment bankers generally believe they are much better at evaluating candidates than students, even those who are returning full time to their firm. In addition, their knowledge and recommendations come from their own recruiting process, but the questions they faced during their process are a function of their personal experiences, which might be very different from your own and so what worked for them might not be relevant for you. We have a much more comprehensive understanding of the recruiting process based on decades of experience seeing thousands of students go through it.

We are your one-stop-shop for all of your career-related questions and needs. We break our support into three areas: getting noticed, getting hired, and getting paid.

We help our students get noticed by helping prepare them for club and internship applications that build their resume, and by providing networking support that enables them to succeed in getting interviews with investment banks.

We help our students get hired with a rigorous interview preparation process, which includes drafting thoughtful answers to a comprehensive set of commonly-asked questions that highlight each student’s unique strengths, technical preparation, and working with each student to ensure that their mock interview results exceed our high bar.

We help students get paid by continuing to work with them after they receive their summer internship offers - talking about long-term career goals and how to pursue these goals after their internships. We also provide practical training modules to help students develop skills needed to succeed on the job and convert their internships into full-time offers.

We prefer to start working with students as early as possible. Our best results come from working with undergraduates before they get to school freshman year and MBA students who are in the spring and summer before they start school. This gives us ample time to prepare them for the rigorous and early investment banking process and allows us to coach them in a manner that eliminates costly and unnecessary mistakes.

Every single one of our students who hires us works significantly harder with us than they would have without us. We are very careful with your time and make sure that you are spending it on things that directly help your career.

We will work around your other scheduling demands.

For undergraduates, investment banks fill their classes primarily through the junior summer internship recruiting process. This allows them to "test" out candidates for an 8 to 10 week period before giving them a full-time offer. Interviews for the leading investment banks begin freshman summer and sophomore fall, peak during sophomore spring, and most banks are finished filling their classes for junior summer by the start of sophomore summer (14 months before the internship begins).

For MBA students, investment banks fill their classes primarily through the internship recruiting process between first and second year. The entire recruiting process is a series of evaluative social events and interviews akin to greek rush, and the process starts two to three weeks after arriving at school in the fall of first year.

While there are rare exceptions to these pipelines (and if you look at our results you'll see a few), almost all investment banking positions at top investment banks are filled through these pipelines.

We believe one-on-one instruction allows us to develop lessons customized tothe individual needs of each student that allow usto get the best results for them. We spend well over fifty hours of one-on-one time with our average student.

We also supplement our instruction with proprietary online tools and resources and relevant research projects that we have developed to give students a space to learn and practice at their own pace.

We pioneered the income share agreement in this industry back in 2019 and still prefer it today because it's best at aligning our students' goals with our own. The amount owed depends on the student's risk, but we only profit if you are successful.