If you’re moving from banking to the buyside, your CV doesn’t need to be clever – it needs to be clear.

Five tweaks that make a real difference:

1️⃣ Lead with deal experience, not responsibilities.
List 3–5 key transactions with your role, size, sector and outcome.

2️⃣ Be explicit about what you owned.
Did you run a workstream, build the model, lead parts of DD? Say so in plain English.

3️⃣ Quantify where you can.
If you helped drive a process to signing in 8 weeks, or supported multiple live deals at once, make that tangible.

4️⃣ Cut the jargon.
Your reader knows the technical language – they just don’t want to work to decode it.

5️⃣ Keep it to two pages or less.
More pages rarely equal more impact.

We review hundreds of CVs a month across M&A, Private Equity, Family Office and Restructuring.

If you’d like an honest view on whether yours is doing you justice, we’re happy to help.