Training Area

Job Search Digest provides online training webinars for its Private Equity members. Recordings or slide shows of those sessions can be found here.

The Private Equity Job Search Process

Guerrilla Job Search Secrets
If you are not getting interviews for private equity jobs that you know are a great fit, it is time to take a different approach. What can you do to stand apart from the crowd? This training session provides many real-world examples and case studies that demonstrate techniques that can get you noticed in a tough job market.

Resumes and Cover Letters

Writing an Effective Resume
What is needed to write a highly effective resume? This video training covers the importance of a resume in the job hunt, mistakes most people make, and what resume formats are acceptable to investment firms (including length of your resume).

Financial Resumes – Extreme Makeover Edition
An online training session for Job Search Digest members that provided real time feedback on real life resumes submitted by members. This session used actual resumes, member feedback and the opinion of a professional resume writer to provide an excellent learning session.

Financial Modeling

Valuation Models
This training covers commonly used Valuation Methodologies, including: comparable company analysis, precedent transactions analysis, and discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis.

Leveraged Buyouts
A topic that has not received much air time due to recent economic conditions. This an online training session discusses the world of LBO’s. This presentation covers: uses for an LBO Model, components of a model and IRR Analysis.

Mergers & Acquisitions
A training session that discusses Earnings Per Share (EPS) Accretion/ Dilution model, the Shortcut Model and other considerations for Mergers and Acquisitions.