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Depends, are you man enough for Bear/Cougar? Or do you chase little Quail
I have a brown bear hunt in Alaska planned and elk is on my list. But I hunt locally all year long.
I would hire u
No, definitely include it. I had hunting and fishing on my resume when I was recruiting and there were a number of occasions where senior bankers brought up how they had taken a cool hunting/fishing trip to a crazy places and how they had so much fun and it gave me an opportunity to find common ground with them. Most memorable example of this:
During my early days of recruiting I was looking in both IB and S&T. I went in for a S&T superday and was talking to one of the desk heads at the firm. We were going through a typical interview for about 10 minutes when the guy got to my interests section. He saw I enjoyed hunting and fishing and started telling me about a trip he took out west to do some fly fishing with old friends from college. At the time he was overseeing a group focused on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae securities. It also happened to be when the credit markets froze at the beginning of the financial crisis so he went into this long story about how he had spotty cell service and was trying to handle one of the biggest shit storms anyone could ever imagine from the side of a river in the middle of nowhere. We chatted about the story for a bit longer and then he totally left interview mode and we traded stories of cool fishing spots for the next 30 minutes.
Moral of the story is yes, include things you are genuinely interested in, you never know when it will allow you to find common ground with someone who you would otherwise have very little in common with. People like working with interesting individuals who have a life outside of finance.
Great answer! If you have a reasonable hobby that might resonate with an interviewer, even remotely, include it.
I don’t even hunt myself but found out during a conversation with a MD on the floor that he did and I thought it was fascinating. Started asking him questions and turns out we both loved farming / nature stuff and familiar with the same rural town a few hours away. We hit it off instantly.
Turned out he was head of the desk and apparently a feared MD. Guess that impressed him because I soon got interviews with his desk and got an offer.
If anything, you’re actually one to know what it is to kill for your own food and appreciate where it comes from rather than those who chow down on bad steaks through their meal stipend so seems even cooler tbh
Why don't you try killing the helpless animals with your bare hands instead of with weapons?
Grow a dick tree hugger.
If you have conerns lead into it by saying you like the outdoors to get a feel for if they care.
I second this. When I recruited for O&G IB in Houston my hunting and fishing stories were appreciated and I had fun conversations with a lot of the guys. People in NYC seem less outdoorsy in general and (as OP noted) fewer people hunt and they may be morally opposed to it so I'd tread lightly bringing up sport hunting in NYC.
Clarify that you hunt for poon
I too am a hunter. Deer, moose (archery), ducks, grouse. I don’t talk about it around potential clients or existing clients, but if I knew someone else was a hunter, I’d 100% talk openly. We’re all guilty of saying what we think we should to land a job, but at the end of the day wouldn’t you rather not get a job somewhere where everyone are hunter haters versus landing someplace where you have a lot in common with your colleagues?
Only fine if you're recruiting in hou
What about something like “shooting clays”?
It can be a contentious issue with the wrong people, but it can garner talking points with the right people - hit and miss tbh
This one is easy. Truthfully, fishing is innocuous enough that it is fine to put. Hunting can offend some people if they have weird gun views or don’t understand not ever being outside of a city. Put “wildlife conservation”. Anyone who hunts knows what that means and people that don’t, don’t. The key is in an interview you give a few baiting questions if they touch on it to test out the waters then eventually if it’s a fellow hunter/ fisher in finance you hit the jackpot and you are probably getting hired. Some people you shouldn’t bring it up/ want to avoid it (women especially), but if you realize it’s a hunter feel free to talk about any hunting trips.
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