A Key Private Equity Job: Due Diligence

May 10, 2010

Financial Advisor Magazine had an interesting glimpse into the extent of the due diligence that big institutional investors go through before taking a chance on a private equity deal.  If you work in private equity, better get ready for people peering into your private life. And if you’re thinking of getting into the business, it […]

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Life Does Not Provide Rollover Minutes

May 3, 2010

What is the price of working in high-paying financial jobs? We studied hard in school, did the internship, went back to grad school and, with a little luck, landed a great job at the investment firm of our choice. So, why do so many of us wake up one morning feeling like we have become […]

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The Downside of Job Hopping in Venture Capital

May 3, 2010

Mark Suster is a successful serial entrepreneur who sold a company to Salesforce.com and then joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner. Today, he focuses on early-stage technology companies and writes a popular venture capital blog, Both Sides of the Table. Recently, Mark weighed in on the downside of job-hopping in the venture […]

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Overcoming Setbacks in Your Private Equity Career

April 26, 2010

Few people have a straight and smooth trajectory to the top of their industry. Especially anyone working in finance over the last few tumultuous years. But how well you deal with setbacks can make a big difference in getting to the next level. That’s the premise behind a new book from Andrea Redmond and Patricia […]

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Why Aren’t There More Women in Venture Capital Jobs?

April 19, 2010

That’s the question pondered by Janine de Nysschen, a business consultant and guest blogger for the New York Entrepreneur Week conference which took place last week in Manhattan. In her article titled “Why Men Get VC Money and Women Don’t … and How That is Changing,” de Nysschen argues that nine times out of ten, […]

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Best Hiring Opportunity for Private Equity

April 12, 2010

So says Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive of JP Morgan Asset Management, who’s looking to beef up her firm’s private equity division in 2010. In a statement published by Financial News, she’s quoted as saying “This is the best opportunity in private equity for 25 years. We are interested in hiring teams for specific opportunities […]

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Polish Your Online Presence for a Venture Capital Job

April 5, 2010

Spending dozens of hours crafting the perfect resume and polishing your interview skills may be fine for traditional financial jobs hunts, like investment banking and consulting. But if you’re pursuing a “less structured” career path such as working for a venture capital firm, it might be wise to divert some of that energy into beefing […]

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Private Equity Needs a Better Image

March 29, 2010

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein was in Toronto this past week and was a speaker at a private equity symposium there. As expected, he talked about his firm’s increasing presence China. But he also outlined Carlyle’s other major worldwide priority: helping to rebuild private equity’s tattered reputation. Private equity has been lumped together with investment […]

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Looking More Flexibility in the Venture Capital Model

March 22, 2010

Large institutional investors are interested in expanding their participation in venture capital, but are a little gun-shy after the recent credit crisis. And a bit more flexibility in the traditional VC investment model would help. That’s the word from JobSearchDigest subscriber Peter Leonardi, Ph.D., MBA, and a Director at Five Prime Advisors LLC in New […]

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Top 10 MBA Schools Based on Value

March 18, 2010

Every year potential and current MBA students and Admissions departments across the country await the annual MBA School rankings. We took a look at this year’s MBA ranking from FT.com and put a twist on the data. Yes, of course, when you look at the “top” schools, the usual suspects are there (Harvard, Wharton, Stanford). […]

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