A blog to get your foot in the door or boost your career
The-Big-Win.com is a blog created by two friends who are passionate about finance:
Students and juniors who dream of a career in finance but don’t have anyone close to them in the sector are often at a loss when it comes to getting interviews and finding the best internships, apprenticeships or permanent contracts.
The aim of our blog is therefore to bring you all the information that no-one else has shared with you so that you can succeed in the field of your dreams, whether in M&A, asset management, private equity, transaction services or corporate banking.
Who are we?
We are two friends and colleagues.
We both went to top business schools.
After respective internships in M&A, private equity and asset management (large cap equities to be precise), we met at the same company as M&A account managers and investment analysts.
Suffice it to say that calculating valuations, DCFs, DDMs, multiples, P/Es, IRRs and target values (and end-of-year bonuses, but shhh, it’s not politically correct, it seems :P) no longer hold any mysteries for us.
Except that when we were recruiting our trainees and apprentices, we realised that each candidate had his or her own shortcomings.
Some only know the school definition of IRR, without knowing how to calculate it in a practical case. Others have no idea what an M&A process looks like as a whole. Others don’t even know what ‘data room’, ‘target value’, ‘NDA’ or ‘NBO’ mean.
What are you being offered?
Why these gaps?
Quite simply because at school or university you learn highly theoretical concepts that are never put into practice…. quite the opposite of what you are expected to do in a company, firm or bank.
On top of that, finance is a pretty closed world, to say the least.
We ourselves paid the price when we were looking for internships and then jobs…
We experienced the disappointments of completely failed first interviews, which were real cold showers… then the questioning until we understood how this world works and what was expected of us.
And it’s because we’ve had such a hard time of it (yes, we dare say it) and we see junior staff continuing to have a hard time of it that we created The-Big-Win.com.
In interviews, you’re systematically asked to answer questions that no-one has ever given you the answer to or prepared you for.
Thanks to The-Big-Win.com you’ll finally be prepared for the interviews you’ll be going to, but not only that…
In fact :
- you’ll also know all the companies, firms and investment banks to apply to
- you’ll know what questions you’ll be asked at interview and how to answer them
- you’ll know what’s expected of you on a day-to-day basis in Excel or PowerPoint, so that you can succeed in your professional experiences with flying colours, and maybe even be hired as a junior member of staff
- … and much more besides…
If you’re looking for insider tips on how to succeed in job applications, interviews and your career in finance, what better than tips from insiders who have faced the same challenges as you, who have overcome them successfully and who are interviewing you today?
If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place!