Understand the roles.
Explore the paths.

When choosing an internship or a first job in finance, one question often comes up: should you prioritize a small team or a large platform?
Behind this choice lie two very different environments, with direct implications for the learning curve, exposure, and skill development.

In finance roles, technical skills are often put forward: valuation, modeling, financial analysis. Yet, a more discreet but equally decisive factor distinguishes profiles who progress quickly from those who stagnate: curiosity.

Finance interviews are demanding, competitive, and often decisive. Candidates who reach the final stages generally master the technical fundamentals and present strong backgrounds. Yet not all of them receive an offer.

Technical preparation is often perceived as the most demanding stage of finance interviews. M&A, private equity, markets: expectations are high and candidates must demonstrate a solid mastery of the fundamentals.

In finance recruitment processes, candidates often focus their efforts on technical aspects: valuation, accounting, LBO, financial markets. Yet, an essential part of the evaluation relies on a sometimes underestimated element: FIT.

Spring Insight, Summer Internship : maîtrisez les bases clés (DCF, LBO, multiples) et préparez efficacement vos entretiens en finance.

For a student in business school or at university, the distinction between corporate finance and market finance may seem theoretical. In reality, these two worlds are profoundly different, both in their objectives and in their working methods.