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Help - How can I get a job? |
| Message Name: |
Job wanted |
| Date Posted: |
05/09/2000 |
| Message: |
Hi, any help either by any insider or by professionals in the HR industry would be welcome I've finished my MBA (specialism in Finance)at a top UK business school a couple of months ago but I've been applying for jobs for about a year. I am already 31 and all my professional life I have been trying to get into an Investment Bank. I have experience in several areas, as I was changing jobs to get near an IB, including IT, Management consultancy, and Insurance. I am highly mathematical person, with just a few at my level at the B-school with some achievement in this (like a 98% score in my quants GMAT) all my prior education was in my home country and apart from one year working experience in the UK all my work experience was also in UK. my selling skills are very good and also my first degree in software engineering gave me a very good computer background, including programming. I was just invited to attend about three interviews at IB and one turned me down, the other one I haven't heard yet (was about 3 weeks ago) and the third one Warburg Dillon Read told me the position was too junior for me(as an assistant derivatives marketer for Debt capital Markets) but everything was fine when I asked for feedback. I was also told that I had a score of above 90 on their test. Everyone keep telling me that I should not worry, that is just a question of luck and I will get a job eventually but I feel that one year is too much and I think that is time for me to get any job. for those of you that say that our career is entirely up to us, I feel they don't know what is to have a passion and being unable to fulfil it. I even wrote my thesis on "how to price Derivatives" including 38 Visual Basic for applications programs to implement the methods. My ideal position would be a derivatives trader but anything in the sale side or quants side of it would suit me. Fixed income and equities come next. what can I do now? I fell that I can't do any more training (even if I could afford it) to market myself and even temp agencies don't accept me because I lack the specific working experience (no one seems to believe me when I talk about transferable skills specially if there is another person easier to sell to the company)will this gap in my CV be really important? Is there anyone with any constructive/destructive suggestions? To market myself a bit further, I want to add that I also speak 3 languages fluently and I know the basics (understand 90% of written/ spoken) of an extra 2please make some comments.
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