Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking (Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking)

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Summary: It helped me
Review: If you needed an overview of the industry that would allow you to not embarass yourself as you tried to have conversations or explore further, this book provides just that. As a complete novice to the industry- I had picked up lots of bits and pieces, but did not have a big picture of the industry & the types of roles. I was happy to get this from the book. People looking for more detailed info or with a lot of previous knowledge would probably not be satisfied with this book. But for me,, it was just the ticket!

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Summary: Did you read any of the other books?
Review: The following text appears on reviews of numerous investment banking books on this site. I suspect someone at the Vault is advertising for their own book on other author's pages. It make you wonder if they wrote their own book.

"This book is a good overview of the investment banking business, but it is quite expensive. I would strongly recommend instead or in addition the Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking.... The Vault guide includes more detailed overviews of all the departments and functions of an investment bank including corporate finance, M&A, sales, trading, private client services, credit, etc. If you are a job seeker in investment banking also try the Vault Guide to Finance Interviews, which contains actual investment banking finance interview questions and answers and which I found to be enormously valuable in my Wall Street job search."

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Summary: It helped me
Review: This is the second Vault guide that I have read, and the second disappointment that I have had with this series. I really isn't a career guide at all, just a very short back ground on what IB is. You can find a description of IB on the internet for free. The only redeeming value is the "day in a life of", but even then, there are only a dozen pages or so. In all, you can find most of what is in the book for free on the internet. I won't be buying any more vault products, as they have little information, and more pages of ads for other vault products than pages of usefull information.

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Summary: Just a big advertisement really...
Review: This is the second Vault guide that I have read, and the second disappointment that I have had with this series. I really isn't a career guide at all, just a very short back ground on what IB is. You can find a description of IB on the internet for free. The only redeeming value is the "day in a life of", but even then, there are only a dozen pages or so. In all, you can find most of what is in the book for free on the internet. I won't be buying any more vault products, as they have little information, and more pages of ads for other vault products than pages of usefull information.