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Career Help |
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thanks a bunch |
| Date Posted: |
01/11/2002 |
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BC boy, I've interviewed a couple of people recently and basically me and my buddies here like to find out a list of things (we are a small group so all this matters a lot to us):
1. if interview backs up resume. I like to get a general idea of what people do (I let the person open up), but the guys I work with directly pinpoint to certain things on the resume. so thats where you need to know your story. after answering one question about one job try to segway into the rest of your job experiences, then segway into why you want to get into investments...this way the interview goes smoothly and the guy doesn't have to ask many questions (we don't have time limits on our interviews, but tend not to go much past 1/2 hour).
2. if the person is genuinely interested in investments-you can get a good feel from what he reads watches and has taken in school as well as the initiative to start following the market.(explain how you figured you wanted to get into investments)
3. if person is friendly. small groups don't like to work with duds...it makes the day pretty boring, my day consist of talking to the street, reading and researching and giving my other counterparts here shit.
4. if person has confidence...most people are nervous so we generally start off with small talk to relax the person, but if the person is still not relaxed its tough to get much out of them.
5. always ask a question. maybe about the market or the groups performance or something that strikes a nerve so the interviewer can brag or talk, this will help extend the length of the interview, this is important...back to the interest part.
GPA above 3.0 is decent, you still have to talk about why its low (most people don't really give you a hard time on this, unless they are pricks, we don't even ask)
If you get all this down pat you'll be getting the offers. Don't depend on the BC website too much, but just start sending e-mails out to AIMR members find someone with a membership directory. When I graduated I got a lot of second round interviews from the e-recruiting listings, but I got my job sending a CIO my resume.
Just to give you an idea of my background so you don't get discouraged, I graduated with an accounting degree (1 major only), and ended up getting hired a couple of months before I graduated when my gpa was 3.1. I got a couple of hedgefunds to offer me a job too but declined them all because of the economy...they paid more too. And i feel your pain cause I must have sent out 100 or 2 of resume's and coverletters. One hedgefund CEO even said that I should not be hard on myself for my GPA because its decent (I was very defensive in my coverletter).
Just to let you know a large portion of hedge fund managers didn't graduate from wharton or harvard, quite a lot of them from mediocre schools like northeastern BU, BC, Babson
p.s. I know that MassMutual recruits at school too, they have an investment subsidiary called Babson, but you can get an interview with them through the Mass mutual application make sure you specify you are interested in investments and not insurance.
I hope all this helps. |
| Message: |
vside93,
thanks very much for all the insight. I will definitely take your advice in my career search and with my interviews. You've definitely told me things that will be of benefit to me. Thanks again!
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