After years in private equity, I’m trying to pivot into corporate strategy, but every recruiter seems confused by the switch. I’ve led due diligence, modeled scenarios, presented to boards… the strategy piece is there, just under a different title. Still, I keep hearing “we’re looking for someone with direct corporate experience.” How do you make a clean pivot when your resume doesn’t tell the story they want to hear?

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Corporate strategy means nothing. So your going from PE to nonsense. Seems very strange considering how difficult it is to get into PE

At my company, most strategy folks are ex-consulting and most corp-dev people are ex-PE/IB.

In my experience, those groups are annoyingly picky. Sorry I don’t have any advice…

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