For those of you in IB, S&T, PE, HF, Consulting etc: from your experience is there a certain type of personality that excels in your line of business? Are there common traits that top-performers in your industry all possess, or do people of all sorts of personalities find their own niches/routes to success?
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In PE, as you can imagine, there are a lot of Type A personalities.
For IB I'd say type A, intelligent, obsessive perfectionist, insecure, not always very creative (cookie-cutter career path), risk-averse (cookie cutter career path, being an intermediary instead of someone w skin in the game), willing to put every other element of their life on the back-burner for their career, good salesman (for seniors especially)
Consulting: Diligent but less perfectionist than I-banker, intelligent , more creative than I-banker, hard-working but values WLB more, insecure too but maybe less than the banker or PE guy
HF: Very intelligent and perceptive, risk loving but diligently so, sometimes obsessive about markets in a nerdy / autistic way
All require intelligence, diligence, industriousness.
This is very subjective obviously. Also hard to give an answer because the answer varies for seniors vs juniors in each industry. Senior I-banker will need to be a lot more creative than a junior IB guy.
Thanks for thorough reply. Makes a lot of sense. Think the perspective on risk tolerance/creativity definitely rings true
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