Overreaction?

Financeable Training · Advanced ·💰 FinTech & AI for Finance Professionals ·1w ago

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Do you think this is an overreaction? This only becomes clear when you are the one presenting to a board and you lose all credibility because of a silly mistake. Attention to detail is critical in every field, but particularly so in Investment Banking and Private Equity. Every day you are judged by the quality of your work. And the first test of the quality of your work is the attention you pay to all the small details in your PowerPoint, Excel, and emails. If things look aesthetically bad or if you make silly mistakes, people will assume that the rest of your work isn’t great. This is the acid test Senior people will use to assess whether or not you’re reliable to work with. Before you send out any content to the rest of your team and particularly to a client, you have to triple check everything. And when possible print everything out so you can see it on paper because you’ll catch more errors.

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I'm now going to commit a sizable proportion of my life and all my intellectual prowess to making you as miserable as I can possibly imagine.

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Do you think this is an overreaction? This only becomes clear when you are the one presenting to a board and you lose all credibility because of a silly mistake. Attention to detail is critical in every field, but particularly so in Investment Banking and Private Equity. Every day you are judged by the quality of your work. And the first test of the quality of your work is the attention you pay to all the small details in your PowerPoint, Excel, and emails. If things look aesthetically bad or if you make silly mistakes, people will assume that the rest of your work isn’t great. This is the acid test Senior people will use to assess whether or not you’re reliable to work with. Before you send out any content to the rest of your team and particularly to a client, you have to triple check everything. And when possible print everything out so you can see it on paper because you’ll catch more errors.
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