Nicole Desharnais shared best private equity career tips. private equity is a competitive industry and it can be tough to land your dream job at a PE firm.

2. • In this capacity you can serve buyout firms by
auditing the firm and its portfolio companies.
Additionally, PE firms need up-to-date
accounting services and may out source this
work to a third party accounting firm.

3. • A fund administrator will take over some of the
more consuming responsibilities of managing a
firm, allowing the PE management to manage
the portfolio.

4. • A large private equity firm may hire in house
marketers but many of the small to mid level
firms will rely on third party fund marketers and
sales consultants to help raise capital for the
fund from investors.

5. • Compliance specialists are becoming more necessary
as firms must meet more rigorous government
regulations in the recent financial overhaul.

6. • These consultants will help with software and
technology that is crucial for portfolio
management and managing a PE firm, even just
setting up the company website.

7. • A lot of money in a PE firm means that often there
is litigation and PE firms will use legal consultants
and attorneys to help in legal matters.

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