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Firms like hiring people who’ve proven they can handle the grind. That endurance signals to employers that you’ve been battle-tested, making them desired candidates for any jobs that come after IB, which is another area where bankers have a better brand perception.

Even though most exit options—like buy-side roles or corporate finance jobs—don’t require banking hours, there’s no denying that the pressure-cooker environment of banking builds a certain reputation.

On average, ER offers a relatively better work-life balance. While ER associates work hard—especially during earnings season—it’s not as bad as the grind of banking.

The IB workload is rough, with late nights, weekend work, and constant fire drills.

IB'ers move to hedge funds & C-suites. ER associates stall. Same skills—why? #7: Everyone thinks an overworked banker is a better candidate

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The result? Endless hours wasted chasing noise. Critical roles slip by at firms you weren’t even tracking. Meanwhile, your peers in the know leap ahead. Your résumé gathers dust. Stress piles up. We cut through the noise—curating hard-to-find roles in public equity (buy-side and

Equity research jobs are out there—but good luck finding them. Every firm hides behind different job titles. LinkedIn buries you in irrelevant alerts. To stay on top of everything, you’d need alerts across hundreds of career sites, checked daily. And still, postings appear in

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Despite remaining a fugitive, Rich received a controversial presidential pardon from Bill Clinton in 2001, mere hours before the end of Clinton’s term. Rich died in Switzerland in 2013 following a stroke.

In 1983, Rich was indicted on 65 counts, including trading with Iran during the hostage crisis and massive tax evasion. He fled to Switzerland, evading capture while continuing to operate internationally. A decade later, following a failed attempt to dominate the zinc market,

Rich cultivated controversial yet highly lucrative relationships with regimes under sanctions and embargoes, facilitating oil and commodity trades with nations such as Libya, Angola, Cuba, and Iran. His dealings during the Iranian Revolution—buying oil directly from Ayatollah

His revolutionary model used aggressive bank financing to move oil and metals rapidly across global markets, enabling trades without the need for heavy asset ownership. This leveraged approach laid the foundation for future global commodity giants like Vitol, Trafigura, and

In 1974, Rich partnered with fellow trader Pincus Green to establish Marc Rich + Co. AG in Switzerland. The firm pioneered the spot market for crude oil, breaking the dominance of long-term contracts historically controlled by major oil companies.

After dropping out of New York University, Rich began his career at Philipp Brothers in 1954. There, he quickly distinguished himself in the metals trading division, operating across Latin America and Europe, and developing early expertise in trading with politically volatile or

Marc Rich (1934-2013, b. Antwerp, Belgium) was the founder of Marc Rich + Co. AG, which would later evolve into Glencore, one of the world’s largest commodities trading firms.

He built the commodity trade as we know it—then sold oil to Israel, dined with dictators, vanished from the FBI, and was pardoned by Clinton.