Avoid Saying "Acquisitions" on CV?

Did business development over the summer and am now facing the confidentiality gridlock of not being allowed(?) to say we were scouting acquisition targets (I think...while I don't know if that was written in my contract, my bosses asked me to stfu about it)


How do I balance this? I'm sure others have been in a similar bind before

Also curious whether someone could advise me about showing my experience synches up with finance even though I did as much market due diligence/research as I did financial modeling--actually, a lot more from what I can recall.


Thanks

 

How do you not know what's written in your own contract...? If your job was looking for acquisition targets then you say that... doesn't mean you have to disclose who those companies were/what was talked about. There is no confidentiality grid lock about describing what you did in your job unless you worked for the CIA. You were in BD, not working on proprietary algos for Rentech. 

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