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Pinnacle Paths · Career Intelligence

Find your place in the Buy-Side Ecosystem.

Upload your resume — or use our freshman intake if you're just starting — share your preferences and strengths, and get a personalized map of where you fit across asset management, wealth, platforms, data, and more.

📖 Not sure what "buy-side" means? Read the landscape primer →

How it works

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Your archetype

Pick the career persona that fits you best.

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Resume or background

Upload a resume, or use freshman intake if you're pre-experience.

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Preferences quiz

Eight questions about what you want from a career.

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Strengths

Rate current skill level AND interest in developing each dimension.

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Get your map

AI-powered matches with firms, roles, and your personal narrative.

The landscape primer

What does everyone in buy-side finance actually do?

Eight areas, eight plain-English realities. No jargon — just what each path looks like on a Tuesday morning.

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Which of these sounds most like you?

Pick the archetype that resonates. It's a mirror, not a test — it anchors your results and gives you language to understand your own fit.

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Tell us about your background.

Have a resume? Upload or paste it. Starting with no finance experience yet? Use the freshman intake — we'll build your map from what you have.

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Drop your resume here

PDF · DOCX · TXT · or click to browse

✓ resume loaded

📎 PDF uploaded — the AI will read it directly. No need to paste anything.

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Intended major / area of study

Courses you've enjoyed most (school, AP, IB — anything)

What are you naturally good at? Be honest.

Extracurriculars, clubs, sports, jobs (any kind)

What excites you about finance or business? Be specific.

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What do you actually want from a career?

Eight quick questions. Answer instinctively — the AI uses these to tell apart paths that look similar on the outside but feel completely different once you're actually in them.

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Your eight core dimensions.

For each dimension, rate your current skill level and separately, your interest in developing it. Both matter — especially if you're early stage with high aspirations.

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Last — what kind of answer do you need?

Choose how the AI approaches your results. Click the ▾ Day in the life button on any area tile to preview what the path actually involves before selecting it.

Your mode

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I'm exploring

Show me the full buy-side landscape and where I fit across all areas.

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I know what I want

Give me 3 specific role matches I can apply to now, with firms and next steps.

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Help me figure it out

No preconceptions — let my background lead entirely. Fully open discovery.

💡 Full exploration mode: area filters are disabled. The AI surfaces your best-fit paths based entirely on your background and strengths — including areas you haven't thought to consider.

Focus areas — optional · tap ▾ on any tile to see a day in the life

Select areas that appeal. Select I don't know yet for open discovery. Leave blank to match across everything.

Matching across all areas

Anything else to know?

Geography, firms you care about, role level, visa needs, deal-breakers.

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Building your map…

Reading your background

Your Buy-Side Discovery Map

Here's where you fit.

Tap any card to expand your full match detail. Then drill deeper for firm-level intel, your honest skill gap, and immediate next steps.

Drill deeper into any area

Tap any area for specific firms, entry-level roles, your honest skill gap, and what to do this week.

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Want to go deeper?

Your discovery map is the starting point. Pinnacle Paths offers full-service career advisory engagements and one-off strategy sessions — built around your specific background, target firms, and timeline. Pinnacle Paths has placed students and professionals at the exact firms in your map.

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Email your results

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