I think you could probably do it, assuming you can win admission to one of those schools, but you may not be competitive at the biggest banks/PE firms.

So i am thinking to do MSF in ESCP or HEC then i want to work in Investment Bank in Europe region. My final goal is winning PE role. Do you think i have any chance? or there is another way to achieve my final destination.

I don’t know if there’s any precedent for people doing an MBA and then an Msc, sorry. I think you would get a lot of questions about your career path, but it might be possible if you spin it the right way and get into one of the top European programs.

Networking is the best method. LinkedIn and other job boards can work, but more to figure out which firms/groups might be hiring (and then you go and contact people there independently once you’ve found some groups in that category). You could message people over LinkedIn, but response rates are sometimes slower/lower, especially for senior bankers. Email works well, but only if you can send out good, personalized messages that don’t look AI-generated content or spam…

It’s possible, but probably not the easiest move because they’ll question how much you know about valuation and modeling outside of credit modeling. If you work with IB teams on the same deals, it’s worth a shot. But if you don’t get good traction after, say, 6 months, maybe focus on corporate banking roles instead or find more of a valuation-related role first. They will probably ask about these issues as well as your knowledge of the entire deal process, if you can run a deal from start to finish, etc.

Thanks for the response Brian. That’s a good point you make. I was initially thinking about moving to a BB/EB in Canada just to lateral across the border through some internal mobility program. But yea, most of them don’t have the greatest presence in Canada (exception being BofA and Barclays).

It’s usually easier to move from Canada to the U.S. than from other countries because of the TN-1 visa. If your current firm has a decent presence in NYC, I would recommend asking about the switch internally first and reaching out to people in the NY office. Networking helps but may not be essential. I don’t think it’s worthwhile to switch firms in this case because you don’t want to end up working at potentially a firm with a worse presence in Canada just to eventually switch countries.