How To Get The Interview Invite

It's applications season and you need to build your beachhead. This gets you a resume worth sending, a carefully crafted story that is unique to you and worth telling, and an outreach that actually gets answered. No theories; I will be distilling the playbook that I used successfuly and which I have taught to generations of candidates after. You get three and a half hours, one async and two live. 1) Resume editing. Send over your resume and I will rewrite it after an initial call (15-30 minutes) to align on your unique positioning. I will then send it back with targeted guidance on what changed and how to use it. 2) Your IB story, Ninety minutes. An IB story that only you can tell. Guaranteed. The resulting pack will resolve the related questions with tremendous confidence (Walk me through your resume; Tell me about yourself; Why investment banking; Why our group; Etc.). More importantly, and as you will find out as we work together, your IB story is one you will continue to tell beyond the summer internship and through hitting the desk full time. It should be crafted thoughtfully. 3) Networking, Sixty minutes. We will work through your real conversations, not a theory of networking. How to run an outreach that bankers cannot ignore? Who to reach out to at each bank (this is critcal)? How to run 15-minute calls/meetings? Who to talk to? What to do at each step? This will be real choreography. I sat on recruiting teams at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and personally screened candidates. The three answers below are the ones that decide whether a coffee chat turns into a referral.