Insights
From the hiring side.
Recruiting into investment banking in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore. Written by the person who used to make the decision, with nothing softened.
Your First 90 Days: What Staffers Notice in Week One
The week-one reliability audit and the 90-day arc from clean work to anticipation.
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The Staffing Model: How Work Is Allocated and How to Be Picked
How work is actually allocated and the capacity conversation done right.
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Intern Mistakes I Remember: the Avoidable Ones
Ten avoidable mistakes from fifteen summers of interns, each with the fix.
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Emailing Seniors: the Etiquette Nobody Teaches
Answer-first structure, status-line subjects and questions with defaults.
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Target Master's Programmes for IB in Europe: the Honest List
The programmes that actually recur on desks and what a master's genuinely buys.
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Big 4 to Banking: the Transaction Services Route
Which Big 4 seats travel, the audit two-step and the 2-4 year window.
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The CFA for IB: What It Signals and What It Does Not
What Level 1 signals, where the charter counts and the 300-hour trade priced.
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Languages in Banking: London, Paris and the Mandarin Question
The staffing maths by market and the Mandarin question answered honestly.
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Visa Sponsorship: London, Hong Kong and Singapore, Honestly
Who sponsors, where it bites and the tiebreaker effect explained honestly.
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AI Infrastructure Deals: the Theme Behind the Current M&A Cycle
The mechanism chain from compute demand to power constraint and both sides of it.
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