Helping Woman and Minorities Find Private Equity Jobs

November 2, 2009

Carlyle Group, the giant global private equity firm with over $86 billion of assets under management, is taking steps to attract more women and minorities into the private equity industry. The firm has teamed up with The Robert Toigo Foundation to create an MBA fellowship program which includes time working at Carlyle, and experience with […]

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Biggest Venture Capital Deals of the Year

October 26, 2009

After much angst over the drop-off in VC deals in 2008, activity appears to be heating up. The Wall Street Journal recently revealed the top 10 VC funding deals of the year, using data from Dow Jones VentureSource. It’s a must-know list for anyone interested in discussing the industry during their interview for a venture […]

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A Private Equity Giant Every Job Seeker Should Study

October 19, 2009

This week marked the sudden passing of Bruce Wasserstein, one of the world’s most successful private equity investors and richest men. Wasserstein, 61, died of heart-related complications in a New York Hospital. Wasserstein worked on deals valued at more than $250 billion during his 32-year career in finance. His hardball tactics were immortalized in the […]

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Venture Capitalists Deserve More Credit

October 15, 2009

Venture capitalists have been getting a bad rap in the press lately, either for lackluster 10-year returns, not supporting enough innovation, or even contributing to the financial meltdown. However, Paul Kedrosky, an investor, writer, and entrepreneur well known for his blog, Infectious Greed, and his columns for TheStreet/RealMoney, has a pointed defense of the industry […]

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Private Equity Compensation Survey

October 11, 2009

You are invited to participate in Job Search Digest’s annual Private Equity and Venture Capital Compensation Survey, which we are conducting to provide information to evaluate compensation, negotiate better job offers, and benchmark firm compensation practices. Last year hundreds of respondents from around the world completed the survey. We had participation from firms both large […]

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Carlyle Head Sees Private Equity Getting Stronger

October 5, 2009

David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, expects the private equity industry to come roaring back even stronger than it was when we finally pull out of this recession. And that could be good news for private equity job seekers. Speaking with Bloomberg Television, Rubenstein admitted that Carlyle, the world’s second largest private equity firm, […]

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California is the Place for Green Capital Jobs

September 30, 2009

There’s no better place for growing green technology start-ups and creating green-collar jobs than California. That’s the opinion of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a rebuttal published by Reuters to political rival Meg Whitman, who was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008. Both are thinking […]

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Compensation May Change for Private Equity Jobs

September 28, 2009

Many private equity firms grew too large and were overpaid at the peak of the economic boom, and that’s going to lead to structural changes in the industry. So says private equity manager Guy Hands in a recent interview with the New York Times. Hands is well known for his own unfortunate $4.73 billion purchase […]

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Signs of Life in Silicon Valley Hiring

September 23, 2009

After a virtual freeze in IPOs and exits, a report by BBC says that buy-out and start-up activity in the Valley is heating up, and investors are taking notice. Recent deals have included the purchase of Mint.com by Intuit for $170m,  Adobe buying Omniture for $1.8bn,  Skype selling to a private equity syndicate for $2bn […]

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How to Revive Your Private Equity Career

September 21, 2009

Nitin Gupta, an executive search expert at Spencer Stuart in India, had some good advice for financial professionals who may have 20 or more years of work experience but have either hit a plateau or found themselves out of a job. “What looks like a career setback can be an opportunity to leap into a […]

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