The flagship programme
Full Cycle.
From where you stand to interview-ready.
10 one-to-one sessions. One mentor, one candidate and a standard set by the people who do the hiring. It begins with the 60-min Recruiting Review, which is credited in full as first session if you continue.
Full Cycle at a glance
The programme
What Full Cycle is
Full Cycle is the end-to-end preparation for investment banking recruiting: ten one-to-one sessions, ten hours in total, fully tailored to where you stand and where you are aiming.
It begins with the 60-min Recruiting Review, a paid one-hour session that gives you an honest diagnostic and a plan. If you continue, the Review is credited as session one of the ten.
Everything that follows is built around your candidacy: your market, your recruiting timeline, your gaps. There is no cohort to keep pace with and no fixed script.
The shape of it
The arc of 10 sessions
An illustrative arc, not a fixed calendar. The split between areas is tailored to each candidate.
A plan, a CV that survives the screen, a profile built for outreach.
Answers that hold under pressure.
Conversations that turn into referrals.
Tested against the hiring bar, ready for the real thing.
Session 1 is the 60-min Recruiting Review, the entry point to the programme.
One mentor · One candidate · Ten hours
The output
What each stage delivers
Nine workstreams, sequenced around your recruiting timeline. Each one leaves you with something you keep.
Positioning and strategy
An honest read of where you stand, a target list by market and recruiting timeline and a plan.
CV
Rebuilt to the high-finance standard and judged the way a screener judges it, so it stops getting cut.
A profile that supports your outreach and passes a professional glance.
Story and positioning
A clean answer to "walk me through your CV", the core behavioural stories, and the "why banking" and "why this firm" answers.
Networking
A targeted approach that earns replies, built on real relationships rather than volume.
Coffee chats
Informational interviews you can run with confidence, and turn into referrals.
Technicals
Accounting, valuation, DCF, LBO and M&A, taken to the level actually asked.
Mock interviews
Behavioural and technical, under real pressure, with direct feedback from the hiring side.
Closing
Offers handled well, next steps clear.
On your CV
An eight-week internship at RT Advisory
The gap that costs non-target candidates the most is not technical. It is the absence of a finance line that survives a screener. Full Cycle candidates are considered for a remote eight-week Finance Research Analyst internship at RT Advisory.
Real analytical work
A scoped deliverable: TMT sector map, comps set, deal screen or M&A teardown. Briefed and marked up by me.
Ten minutes of interview material
The CV line opens the door. Work you actually built is what survives the follow-ups.
A reference letter
Issued on completion, describing the work and the standard it met.
Places are limited and subject to confirmation. Not a guaranteed part of Full Cycle. Where a candidate is exceptional, the scope extends into live deal work.
Why it works
Not a volume programme, and none of it is a template.
- Every session is one-to-one and tailored, there is no cohort to keep pace with and no script to recite.
- The preparation is shaped by what interviewers actually reward, because it is led by someone who evaluated and hired.
- Templated answers are precisely what screeners are trained to catch. You will build your own, and they will hold.
Who leads it
Raphael Tressieres
Former Executive Director in TMT investment banking at Nomura and former M&A banker at BNP Paribas in London, Paris and Hong Kong.
I worked on landmark M&A, IPO, private placement and financing transactions representing over US$25bn in deal value, and I sat on the hiring side of the interviews you are preparing for.
I did not come from a target school. That is why Full Cycle is built the way it is: no template, no cohort and no shortcuts assumed.
Every one of the ten sessions is delivered by me. There is no associate, no junior mentor and no handover.
Who it is for
Undergraduate to Masters students and early-career candidates targeting investment banking: spring weeks, summer internships, off-cycle and full-time roles. No prior finance background required. Non-target and target school candidates alike.
Format
- Ten one-hour sessions, one-to-one
- Remote, scheduled around you
- Tailored focus, no fixed script
How to start
Start with the Review.
One hour, one-to-one, on whatever will move your candidacy most. It is how every Full Cycle begins.
If you move into Full Cycle within 3 days of the Review, the US$250 is credited in full against the US$2,000.
LIMITED 1:1 slots
- Nothing to commit to up front. You decide about Full Cycle after the Review, with a plan in hand.
- The US$250 is not lost either way. Continue within 3 days and it is credited in full as first session.
- You get the honest read regardless. I will say so if Full Cycle is not the right fit for you.
Before you commit
Asked before booking
Do I have to commit to all ten sessions up front?
No. Everyone starts with the 60-min Recruiting Review. You decide about Full Cycle after it, with an honest diagnostic and a plan in hand. If you continue within 3 days, the US$250 is credited in full and the Review counts as session 1.
How quickly are the ten sessions used?
At your pace. Sessions are scheduled around your recruiting timeline, compressed ahead of interviews or spread across a full campaign. There is no cohort to keep pace with.
Do you guarantee offers?
No. And be wary of anyone who does. I guarantee preparation at the standard I held as an interviewer and total honesty about where you stand.
The next step
One hour with the person who used to make the decision.
Book the Review, get the honest read and decide about Full Cycle with a plan in hand.
PREFER EMAIL? raphael@tressieres.com