Job Search Digest provides online training webinars for its members. Recordings or slides from those sessions can be found here.
Writing a Killer Resume
What makes a resume effective? How important is the resume in your job hunt? What are the most common mistakes people make when writing their resume? How long should your resume be?
Investment Resume Feedback
A recording of an online training session that provided feedback on real life resumes. The training session included the use of actual resumes, and asked attendees to provide feedback. Then, for each resume, a professional resume writer to gave her opinion on areas for improvement.
Investment Banking Cover Letters
Investment banking cover letters must be written to address the needs of the banking firm. This training session demonstrates several key points in creating a successful investment banking cover letter.
investment Banking Resumes Review
An investment banking training webinar where real-life financial resumes were submitted by members and then reviewed by a professional resume writer along with comments from live session attendees.
The Valuation Process
This investment banking training session walks you through the process of building a valuation model. It covers identifying comparable market transactions and how market swings can change the value of these transactions. It is a case study based training session and is reserved for our Premium members.
How to Build Merger Models
A hands on session on how to build a merger model in Excel. This financial modeling training walks you through the steps to build a merger model, what to consider, assumptions made and challenges in the process.
Advanced Merger Models
In this case study based training on we analyze Intel’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of McAfee. This deal had many analysts wondering why Intel made this move. This training will challenge your understanding of mergers and acquisitions.
How to Build LBO Models
A Premium member only training session. Step by step approach to building an Excel-based leverage buyout model. Based on a case study with stated assumptions, you will modify the income statement, adjust the balance sheet and cash flow statements, debt schedules, and calculate expected return on investment.
What to Expect in an Investment Banking Job Interview
Why is it that so many investment banking professionals will invest time into writing their resume and building their technical skill sets but fail to invest in their “soft side” interviewing skills? In this training we discuss the interview process and how you can best position for success.
Investment Banking Job Search Strategies
In this session, we cover actionable strategies to put your investment banking job search on the right track. Taking into account both the short and long term, you will learn a more strategic approach for your investment banking job search.
Investment Banking Job Interview Preparation
Why is it that most people put more time into their resume and cover letter than they do getting ready for the job interview? How well prepared you are for that face to face interview will likely determine your success. This training describes the steps to get you ready for your investment banking job interview.
Guerrilla Job Search Secrets
In a job market with fewer opportunities and higher unemployment, sometimes you need to ziq when others zag. We provided this training session to provide practical tips that can help you stand out from the crowd. This session provides real-world examples of how to do things a bit differently in your job search process in order to get noticed.
Year End Networking Opportunities
Have you ever heard that no hiring happens at the end of the year? Some say that you should just take the last two weeks of the year off from your job search. If you do, you are missing out on big job search networking opportunities. This training session will show you how to network effectively at year end gatherings.
Moving into Private Equity
Are you interested in breaking into an private equity or venture capital? How do you do that when you are competing against private equity candidates who already know the industry and what to expect? To give you a complete picture of what it takes to get into private equity, we discuss: the state of private equity, the benefits of working in private equity vs investment banking, the different types of firms, compensation expectations, and required skills and what to expect in the interview.