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These conversations are mostly quite basic. Just try to sound like you know what you’re talking about. But also be friendly, respectful and normal. Have a story of what you have done and how that’s relevant to buyside and why you want to make the switch.
Understand broadly where you want to sit in terms of sector and early stage vs last stage. Fine to be open minded but some level of focus shows you’ve done your research and help preparing for and narrowing down on relevant opportunities.
For this, I would just go through websites of different funds, understand what people do at these funds / different stages / etc. Use different forums like this one.
Then there are things like financial modelling / LBO courses etc but before jumping into that it’s worth doing the pre work to see how relevant it is (eg different applying for blackstone buyout vs a VC fund). If anything technical comes up with HH, it would be something like a a super easy paper LBO, answering basic accounting questions (what happens to the statements if D&A goes up by 10 etc) and talking about investment trends and ideas
Depends on the type of switch you're looking to make but I would just stay abreast with financial news and trends and maybe look into getting paid access to higher level reports