What nobody explains before your first finance interview.
The rankings that actually count, the qualifications worth the money, the models you will be asked to walk through. Written for students going into investment banking, private equity and consulting.
Guides and articles
The university rankings that matter in finance recruiting.
Target, semi target, non target: what those labels really mean in Milano and London, and how much of your outcome they decide.
What the CFA actually is, and how the three levels work.
Cost, hours, pass rates and the honest answer to the only question that matters: does it help you get the job you want.
CFA Level I: how the exam works and how long it takes.
180 questions, two 135-minute sessions, the official topic weights and the hours it really costs.
CFA Level II: the vignettes and the jump from Level I.
Twenty-two cases, eighty-eight questions, twelve minutes each: what changes when the exam asks you to choose.
CFA Level III: the three pathways and the written answers.
Portfolio Management, Private Markets or Private Wealth, the essays, and the 4,000 hours before the charter.
What a DCF is, explained the way an interviewer asks it.
Free cash flow, WACC, terminal value and the follow up questions that separate a memorised answer from an understood one.
What to know before you try to work in private equity.
Why the path usually starts in banking, what an associate really does all day, and how the funds in Milano hire.
The recruiting calendar: summer, off cycle and graduate.
When each window really opens in Europe, how early is too early, and what to do in the months in between.
The one page finance CV, line by line.
What a banking screener looks for in the six seconds they give you, and the lines that quietly get a CV binned.
Reading is the easy part. The seat is the hard part.
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