Step-By-Step: How to Get a Job in Investment Banking

Look… I know exactly how you feel. Spending time researching associates, analysts, VP’s in all different industries and all different cities on Linkedin, sending cold generic emails, asking them to talk.

Picking their brain, about how they got started, and hoping this will net you a position. This takes SO much time and I am guessing if you are here.. you haven’t seen any return on this time investment.

Neither did I

But.. when I found a better way to go about this it changed everything for me.

No more LinkedIn messages, cold emails, awkward phone calls

This document gives you a proven template to make finding your dream internship/job possible.

***(I offer a money back guarantee and if you purchase this template send me an email at devin2134@gmail.com and I will help walk you through and prep you for any interview for FREE)

Breaking into investment banking is a grueling experience. Why?

1. You’re competing with the best of the best

a. The amount of people that want to get IB jobs or any job on Wall St (investment banking, sales and trading, hedge funds, PE, equity research, etc) has far more supply than demand. So if you’re like me and you went to Penn State (and not UPenn), sending in your resume next to Joe Schmo from Wharton makes it pretty damn hard to get involved

2. Bulge bracket

a. To get into the likes of Jeffries, BAML, etc, you are going to going through their application portal. This means that your resume will be dumped in with just about everyone else, so how the hell do you differentiate yourself?

3. Networking

a. I currently receive at least 2-4 emails a week about people looking to get into IB. So if I am getting that many emails at a small firm, that means everyone at bigger firms is probably getting 10-20. Competing for their time when they have their job, life, hobbies, is tough

Here’s what I realized:

What’s the definition of insanity?

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

So once I switched over to the IB side and started to get LinkedIn messages, emails, I realized EVERYONE was doing the same thing.

“Hey my name is X, I am involved in X Y and Z, here is my resume, I would to learn more about getting into IB”.

“I will work for free.”

“I just want to learn.”

“Do you have a summer internship.”

Here’s the issue. Everyone that reaches out to me has great backgrounds, great schools, great classwork or extracurriculars, great GPA, former employment.

Everyone’s resume looks the exact same. Exact same format, similar classwork, similar GPA’s, similar interests, similar questions.

In summary: I work hard, I study hard, I want to be in finance, how can I do this?

When I was at Penn State I wanted to do M&A tax, I was told “you’re not a lawyer they won’t interview you”. When I got an interview “they are doing this to appease you they won’t hire you.” Then they hired me.

Then when I got down to the final 2 people of out 400 screenings for a PE job with a tax background (came in 2nd place for the job and as Ricky Bobby said if you’re not first your last), I realized that I had perfected how to prepare and differentiate myself.

I knew what to say in interviews, what to ask questions about, how to set myself apart, what technical and behavioral questions to prepare for, what were the best answers, what modeling exercises and accounting were needed.

AFTER sending hundreds of emails, applying to tons of jobs, and doing what feels like 10,000 interviews, I have mastered the process of getting the job or internship you want.

It’s simple and proven and guess what… its this template I have created here.

A lot of courses out there are expensive, take weeks, and don’t teach you HOW to get the job. They teach you what the job entails but doing practice models cant simulate what you will do on the job. You’ll learn these skills WHEN you get the job. Your employer doesn’t expect you to come in and be able to build a bottoms up retail model with 16 tabs accounting for 460 variables.

I will show you the email template you should use that will make you standout from everyone else. The EXACT topics and questions I ran through daily to help prepare for all interviews.

Unfortunately, I cant be in the room with you, but I can help you out prepare everyone else and this will help you:

Feel comfortable and calm in the interview

Ask the best questions

Stand out in the application / email process

Have technical knowledge without getting brain overload

So, when you buy this template you will receive a document from me with all the below:

1. An email template to use to stand-out from the crowd

2. The best behavioral questions to prepare for and how to respond

3. How to research and analyze the company so you ask questions nobody else will

a. I had an operating partner blurt out on video: “That’s an incredible question.. wow.. can you help us do that?”

b. One VP of a firm asked: “Did you know he’s the operating partner on that specific company or was that a lucky guess?” (I did know and told him I knew. It was not an accident that is for sure).

4. What technical topics to know and my explanation (3rd grade level) of them

5. What to say in a follow-up email to avoid being generic and make yourself remembered.

Once you have this template in your hands I GUARANTEE (I offer a full money back guarantee at any time for any reason), that you will be the MOST prepared candidate.

Oh, and not to mention no more cold calls or cold emails that feel awkward.

Price: If you cant afford this price, consider this: You are looking to get into the highly competitive world of banking. If you cannot invest time and $ into a small document to land your dream job, then you probably don’t want it bad enough.

The average IB analyst makes between $75-95k salary with 70-100% bonus potential. $97 for $150k on the low end seems like a risk/reward relationship that even Steve Cohen couldn’t pass up.

Also, the time aspect. If you are unemployed, or employed and hate your job, or in school. You only have so many hours in the day. I am trying to help you avoid studying a 35 hour course, 26 page guides, or sending 600 emails and doing 4 calls a week.

Anyway.. as I said before, if this template doesn’t help you get interviews or crush your interviews, then send me an email and I’ll Venmo you hard cash right back.

Ok.. enough about all this. You ready or what? Let’s get you your job in banking and get you that 100% bonus.