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For some, investment banking is the holy grail.  My client was a treasurer with a well-known but medium sized bank.  However, he really wanted to do deals with a top shop.  How do you get an investment banking job in December? Impossible most people say. How do you...

Quants are only "so so" about working for commercial banks.  The buy side is the holy grail.  Great experience from running interest rate models and learning a little about ML/AI, but quants can only go so far at a commercial bank. We took the sexiest work my client...

Over 40,000 job boards are available at any time.  They don't work for a job seeker?  No, you are not the target audience. What, huh? Applying on job boards and company websites doesn’t work, at least for job seekers.  If you are a job seeker, stay away.  The simple...

My client was laid off from his most recent position.  Ever happen to you?  Has happened to me. Sucks! We built him a fancy sports car, (think Lamborghini, Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari) sometimes called resume and LinkedIn profile.  He drove it around midtown with...

Here's the ironic part of my business.  I work on two different clients, both part of the same company, same division, same group!  Confidentiality is in place, so no issues. Neither one knows I helped the other. My first client was mid-level at an insurance company...

My client liked her job.  However, the instability at Deutsche Bank was making her nuts. She was there for over 20 years, front, middle, and back office! We souped up her Ferrari resume with rich content and a clean, neat format.  Format that passes through the...

My Big 4 client really hated her job.  All day to day stuff that everyone else told her to do.  All execution and no strategy, no thinking. She dreamed of actually making a difference to an organization.  She had the big picture brain.  Could see into the future. We...

We all want to be entrepreneurs.  Be our own boss, go for the Gold.  Have no boss but your spouse! Sometimes big plans need to be shelved.  If you can't raise the money, you can't survive. My client came to me pretty pissed off and wanted to get back to a full-time...

Deutsche Bank has its publicized problems.  I am not smart enough to know what will happen. I just know it is not a great place to be now. You know those Green Berets that perform prisoner extractions behind enemy lines? Call me the Green Beret of career advancement....