Working at a boutique M&A shop where no deals have closed in nine months has been a bad time. The partners are getting increasingly paranoid, the atmosphere in the office is toxic, and my resume is stagnating. I’m trying to jump to a larger middle-market firm, but it’s not going well. How do you sell your experience when the market conditions completely choked your pipeline?

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I’d frame it around the work you did, not just whether deals closed. Even in a slow market, you can talk about building models, preparing CIMs or pitch materials, running buyer lists, supporting diligence, and staying close to live processes. Market conditions are out of your control, but the reps and judgment you built still count.

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