Breaking in to Value Creation
~10yrs experience (early 30's) with 50% consulting / 50% operating (corporate strategy, chief of staff) for VC-backed (read: high growth) tech enabled services business. Interned in both IB and PE during undergrad. Overall, I feel I have some pretty unique experience / and likely more 'real' reps than many others in my age class.
Based on everything I've read so far this seems like a good track record to parlay into VP / Principal roles in value creation with LMM firms... however I'm not generating much momentum or getting much interest.
My approach over the last eight weeks has been to network with recruiters and some industry focused banks or very senior operating partners and just get the resume out there (and some pages I made that are effectively a pitch deck of my work + case studies).
Is there something else I should be doing? Am I going after the wrong points of entry?
Any advice would be helpful because I'm banging my head against the wall at this point.
Posted Dec 4, 2025, 9:39 PM UTC