I was top of my class and I paid a very expensive MSc at Imperial College, however and besides the fact that I know people with much less qualifications working in Investment Banking, I can't find a job and have to survive on 20k a year if I want to live in the UK?
Asked by anaareias
Posted in Qualifications and Equities
03 Jul 2008
Answer this questionHaving read your recent questions and posts, the reason you havent secured an I-Bank position is you have a real attitude problem which im sure the interviewers will have picked up on. Either that or your just a moron with too much family money.
DT 04 Jul 2008
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Perhaps you should have done the CQF then... I've not seen the stuff that led DT to say those things, but attitude is an important thing in interviews. Although Imperial is a respectable enough place, you are trying to enter a game where by itself the MFE is nothing very special. As a headhunter, I see CVs that basically say "I went to SmartUni, did HardThings, worship me ye mortals". The technical term used in my firm for these is "crap CVS". Your CV is a sales pitch, grammar, layout, all the dull stuff really counts. If you got a proper job, you'd be paid more than the rent on the sort of home Madonna lives in. Do you think the estate agent who pitches at that market send out tatty, poorly written descriptions ? The market is not at its best, you need to work harder on it,
DominiConnor 04 Jul 2008
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The majority of people that I come across in Investment Banking have the inate ability to articulate and express themselves clearly and, having read your question, you don't.
Quantseeker 04 Jul 2008
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By gaining qualifications from a redbrick university shouldn’t mean you have a passport to investment banking. Others have to work really hard to be where they are... Change your attitude and try to get a job on your merits opposed to who you know or where you’ve studied.
Job seeker 04 Jul 2008
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Your issue has stirred an unjustified ire on part of the previous moderators. Besides the maladroit phrasing that you have come up with, the answer is simple: investment banks have halted their recruitment due to heavy losses and a slow down in financial transactions. Hence the opportunities are very scarse, and the residual ones attributed to those who have amassed banking experience. You need to work on your strategy: internships, financial related positions and choices of market places. By seizing up, what may resemble "unattractive" propositions, you demonstrate to future IB employers your commitment to finance in instances of hardship. Once the financial sector ends its re-structuring (probably by 2010) your experience and valuable diploma from Imperial College will be regarded very positively. By the way, I find the comments expressed by other moderators as futile and impregnated with very poor writing skills. No class
A classmate from Imperial College 04 Jul 2008
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The fact you trash other qualified candidates as locals with cooking degree from nowhere instead of checking the problems on yourself after rejection is probably the reason.
Qood 04 Jul 2008
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I have to say, your attitude is pretty bad. Interviewers, trained or not/male or female, will detect this. What I call 'Naomi Cambell syndrome'!
John 04 Jul 2008
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get plastic surgery.
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