Recruiting
As a big-time PE shop that owns parts or all of some very high-profile businesses (Nielsen and Hilton Hotels, to name two), The Blackstone Group is extremely selective when it comes to hiring. It might help to know that the firm's name is a cryptogram derived from the names of founder (and current CEO) Stephen Schwarzmann (Schwarz = "black" in German) and founder Peter Peterson (Peter = petra = "stone" in Greek). If you already knew all that or what a cryptogram is to begin with, you just might be Blackstone material.
Like the Bee Gees? You might have something in common with Schwarzman, who has a special fondness for their hit "Staying Alive," which reminds him of his first deal success back in the 1970s.