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28/05/2026

Most underrated networking (and sales) move ↓
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You're almost never the top of anyone's priority. Especially when you're the one asking — for a coffee chat, for a referral, for a yes on an offer you're pitching, for feedback on your CV.
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Bankers are heads-down on live deals. Founders are running their company. Recruiters are juggling 200 candidates. Your message is one of 50 in their inbox that day, and it can genuinely just slip through.
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That's why the follow-up does so much work. It pulls your message back to the top of the queue without forcing them to dig.
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But how long should you wait? Leaving time between messages is a sign of respect. Don't chase every day — that signals desperation and gets you blocked.
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Rough rules I use:
- 1 week after a normal coffee chat ask: fine to follow up. It probably just slipped through.
- 2 weeks: definitely fine. By that point, silence is the signal.
- 2nd follow-up: double the wait. If your first nudge was after a week, give it two weeks. If it was after two, give it 3-4 weeks.
- 3rd follow-up: up to you. Try one last short message, or move on. No rule says you have to keep going.
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Even if it goes silent, the conversation is just paused.
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Come back when something genuinely changed and you have something new to bring. A year later you might have one or two IBD internships on your CV — that's the perfect moment to reach out again, show what you've executed since, and remind them you're still committed to that specific bank.
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Same person, same target — different candidate. That's a very powerful follow-up.
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Comment "NETWORK" and I'll send you my networking starter kit + elevator pitch template, plus free access to the How IB Ticks course overview.
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If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, co-founded a cigar company, taught at two universities, and now help students break into Swiss investment banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.
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27/05/2026

Avoid a weak pitch ending like mine 🚫

The "why this bank" part of my pitch is weak, I know. Mainly b/c I talk about a fake event for a fake bank, so I went generic on purpose - "great culture, met your bankers, platform has everything". Every candidate says this.

In a real interview, that section is where you can separate yourself. Two things make it strong:

1. Name a person
"I spoke to [Name] last Tuesday at your event in Zurich, and he told me how the team handles the smaller cross-border deals with a really lean setup. That's exactly the kind of exposure I want."

2. Mention a specific deal
"Your recent role on [X transaction] is the kind of work I want to be part of, not just read about in FuW."

Generic = forgettable. Specific = memorable.

Here's a summary of what a good pitch entails (+ examples from my pitch here):

1. Hook (military / Thai boxing)
2. Status quo (HSG, MBF)
3. Spark (UZH seminar)
4. Experience (3 highlighted)
5. Why IB (end-to-end transaction exposure)
6. Why this bank (be specific, not generic like mine)
7. Close (forward-looking)

Steal the structure, fix the close. If you want the full pitch non-negotiables in one place:

Comment "STARTER" and I'll send you my IB Starter Guide: how Swiss IB recruiting works, the CV, LinkedIn and pitch non-negotiables, plus a full readiness checklist to break in.

If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, taught at universities (HSG & Bocconi) and now help students break into Swiss Investment Banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.

25/05/2026

Networks can land you jobs.
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Let's be honest first: Yes, people get interviews from portals every recruitment season. But in my own career, every role I landed came via some kind of touchpoint. The form varied a lot:
- A university club with an exclusive invite to a bank's office
- A case study event where the recruiters saw me perform in a group
- A friend of a friend who was quitting his job and referred me into the team
- A mock interview at an investment bank that put me on their radar months before there was an opening
- Coffee (or wine) chats that turned into "send me your CV when you're ready"
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The common thread: each one was either organic exposure where they could see how I actually thought and worked, or a small favour from someone who already had context on me. Not anonymous CVs in a stack of 537.
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The reason this matters more in Swiss IB than in London or NY: hiring here is opportunistic. Smaller teams, smaller cohorts. Recruiting often only kicks off when a team genuinely needs a head. So they hire people they've already seen, people they trust, or people their trusted contacts vouch for. The portal pile is the fallback they tap when nothing else works.
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So my honest take:
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Keep applying. Cold apps have a non-zero conversion rate, and you should run them in parallel — but not as your only channel, as your real probability lives in the touchpoints you build before you need them. The university club you show up to. The case event you take seriously while others enjoy the free food. The alumni you reach out to without an ask. The small group project you carry instead of free-ride on.
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Build that early enough, and one of those touchpoints becomes the offer. Every time.
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Want a system for it? Comment "NETWORK" and I'll send you my networking starter kit + elevator pitch template, plus free access to the How IB Ticks course overview.
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If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, co-founded a cigar company, taught at two universities, and now help students break into Swiss investment banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.
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24/05/2026

Comment STARTER for a free guide with the frameworks and checklists to break into Swiss Investment Banking.

If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, taught at universities (HSG & Bocconi) and now help students break into Swiss Investment Banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.

22/05/2026

Thinking of doing a Masters? Read more ↓
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90% of bankers have a master's. That's true. But "everyone has one" and "you need one" are not the same thing.
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We had two people at UBS who made (top-ranked) ED without one. So it's not a must — and it's not even a particularly strong filter.
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Honest take on my own master's: I didn't learn much new hard skills on the curriculum side (but that was because I already did a B&F Bachelors, so a lot was repetition). Seen from this lens, a Bachelors is not a requirement at all.

BUT my master's is where I got the IB job. Why? The network. The events. The exposure.
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Especially if you didn't do your Bachelor's at a target school or didn't get top grades, the Master's is your shot to level up. And honestly — studying is fun. Everyone misses it eventually. You have your whole life to work.
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So if you'd genuinely like to do a Master's, do it. If you can do an exchange — even somewhere "not target" — take it. You meet new people, live in a different culture, hear how someone else's life works at 23. You come back broader, more curious, more interesting at the dinner table.
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That matters more than it seems, because IB is a people's business — and a rounded operator beats a narrow one over the long run.

Don't optimise your 20s like a spreadsheet. Instead comment "ROADMAP" and I'll send for free the step-by-step guide how I went from non-target to top-ranked M&A associate, including real stories & frameworks.
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If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, co-founded a cigar company, taught at two universities, and now help students break into Swiss investment banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.
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20/05/2026

Here's how to build your reputation in Swiss investment banking.

In a market this small, the same people you meet at Banking Days are the ones reviewing your application. Bullsh** gets spotted fast. But so does genuine engagement.

Show up. Take on responsibility. Follow up properly.

The rest - CV, pitch, networking - is covered in the free IB Starter Guide. Comment "STARTER" and I'll send it over.

If you're new here: welcome to . I'm a former large cap M&A associate in Zurich. I quit last year, travelled, taught at universities (HSG & Bocconi) and now help students break into Swiss Investment Banking via NeverBanked. Links in Bio.

18/05/2026

Getting ghosted on cold outreach? ❌

You're sending LinkedIn messages. Cold emails. Nobody replies.

Comment "STARTER" and I'll send you my free IB Starter Guide — Swiss IB recruiting explained step by step: CV and LinkedIn non-negotiables, networking outreach, pitch structure, and more.

If you're new here: welcome to . Former M&A associate in Zurich. I now help students break into Swiss Investment Banking via NeverBanked.

17/05/2026

You can read all you want. A mock interview is where your gaps surface.

Reading gets you the standards. The mock tells you whether you can hold them when an investment banker is watching you answer.

Comment "INTERVIEW" for the IB Interview Edge — pitch structure, technicals (DCF, EV/Equity, LBO), 70 Excel shortcuts, readiness checklist. Free.

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