Thanks. I would try to spin your internship and early-on-the-job deals and pitches into sounding more substantial, even if it is a huge stretch to do so.

We don’t have anything more specific, so the “Experienced Banker” template is the closest match. But you could potentially use this one and put your current degree at the top.

Do you have anything in particular for those recruiting from full-time MBA programs, with deal experience? Or will the experienced banker one work? I did the following career path Consulting -> IB -> Corp Dev -> MBA

Thanks. We don’t have anything specifically on corporate development resumes, but they should be quite similar. Maybe focus a bit more on the long-term appeal or effects/results of each deal you worked on rather than shorter-term metrics like a 3 or 5-year IRR. But they will still care mostly about deal experience and your opinion of each deal you worked on.

Any guidance on how you would alter the above templates/messaging if you were recruiting for a corp dev? Or perhaps another article that could help? Any help is much appreciated!

Thank you very much!

Yes, you can still list the most relevant other transactions, even if they did not close or your firm dropped out of the process. You should not name the company if the deal did not close, so “$XX Potential Acquisition of Industrial Company” is better.

Brian – super helpful.

Would you list non-completed deals as a PE professional? I.e. say you looked a five-ten transactions with full DD, submitted finals bids etc. but for whatever reason only ended up successfully completing one of those, I take it one would still list the most relevant others as well?

Would you normally see these named or stated as description (i.e. ‘potential acquisition of industrial company’)?

Thank you!

Yes.