Case Study: How This International Student Secured Hedge Fund and Investment Banking Offers

City Careers Coach helps you get into elite corporate careers. We’re recruiters from investment banking, corporate law and private equity backgrounds. We provide premium, bespoke and personalised 1–1 career development programmes. These are for university students looking to enter elite corporate high-paying careers. We have spoken at the world’s most elite universities, including?Harvard Business School?to Harvard’s MBA class.?100% of our clients?pass?CV stage. 90%?of our clients?secure?at least?one internship or graduate role.?And our?average client starting salary is ￡150,000

Dhruv Mathur, a 1st-year student from the London School of Economics, came to us with the goal of securing a highly coveted front office career in an investment bank or hedge fund industry. Despite being a brilliant student at one of the most elite universities in the world, Dhruv faced significant competition from students from institutions like the University of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. Elite finance careers can have an acceptance rate of 1%. It really is that competitive. He knew he needed help to excel.

To give himself an edge, Dhruv decided to work with City Careers Coach in of our world-leading programmes. His programme was led by me, Hassan Akram, the CEO of City Careers Coach. I am an ex-investment banking recruiter. I have designed frameworks where clients have achieved year-one earnings of ￡150,000 after graduating from university. I have also spoken at Harvard Business School to Harvard’s MBA class on getting into elite careers.

Solution:

To help Dhruv stand out in the competitive field of investment banking and hedge funds, we implemented a 12-month roadmap that consisted of a three-pronged strategy that included brand development, CV development, and interview preparation.

First, we worked with Dhruv to develop his personal brand, focusing on his strengths and creating an application strategy that targeted the most desirable and highest-performing careers. This was followed by our world-leading CV development programme, which has a 100% success rate. We reviewed and redrafted Dhruv’s CV eight times, resulting in a final version that he described as “exceptional.”

This exceptional CV formed the basis of our application strategy, resulting in interview offers from every firm Dhruv applied to, including venture capital firms, investment banks, and fixed-income boutiques.

Next, we prepared Dhruv for interviews through a detailed interview programme, where we structured and refined his answers to ensure they were effective and clear. We adapted his motivational answers 12 times, and restructured his competency answers 15 times, using City Careers Coach’s proprietary principles.

Finally, we made strategic introductions to individuals in the hedge fund industry to further bolster Dhruv’s understanding of the terminology, attributes, and qualities needed to excel.

Results:

Dhruv’s efforts and hard work paid off, as he achieved the following results with our help:

• 2 investment banking offers in the sales and trading division, including at Barclays and BNP
• 1 hedge fund offer at Point 72
• 1 venture capital internship
• 1 fixed-income focussed fin-tech boutique
• More than 10 interviews at elite organisations, including venture capital firms, investment banks, and others
• Interviews at each institution he applied to

Through our world-leading personalised career development programmes, led by an ex-investment banking and private equity recruiter, we were able to help Dhruv stand out and secure offers from some of the most prestigious firms in the industry. As Dhruv said, it was “the best investment he ever made.”

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City Careers Coach is an international network of freelance finance recruiters. We are from investment banking, corporate law and private equity backgrounds. We provide premium, bespoke and personalised 1–1 career development programmes. These are for university students looking to enter elite corporate high-paying careers. We have an exceptionally strong track record.?100% of our clients?pass?CV stage. 90%?of our clients?secure?at least?one internship or graduate role.?And our?average client starting salary is ￡150,000.