Graduated in May 2009 and I'm working for a boutique s&t fixed income firm. Firm has a little street credit but I dont really see it as a firm to really get my career where I want it to be. It's a also strictly a flow trading firm so many more sales guys than traders and I prefer the trading side. I'm in the middle of a 10 month rotational through 3 diff desks but more or less doing the same B!@#$ work on each desk. My goal is to get on to either a bb or mm bank trading floor. My question is am I better off taking these 3 months experience here and trying to make the move now (while trading profits are at all time highs) or should I wait out till at least the end of the 10 month rotational and then try to move. I don't mind starting off as a first year analyst somewhere. Also, any advice on how to make the transition.
....I worked at a financial services consulting firm for 6 months before making the move to this firm so I'm a little nervous how all the switching around looks. Obviously, I could leave that experience out on a resume/interview if i felt nec. Thanks
You can't leave it out, that'll piss recruiters off...a 6 month gap on your resume where they found out you were paying taxes on a consulting job and left it off your resume to make it seem like you didn't bounce around....bad idea, auto ding.
Try going back to school if that's possible, job placement is better out of universities and BSchools than firm to firm.
yeah, your prob right about the leaving out. as for b school, that is an option but i really prefer not to do that unless nec. I guess my question is more along the lines of how easy is it to lateral into an s&t analyst class and when would one think is the best time to do this
you know your going to be doing b!tch work at any major firms desk right? the tone of your first post seems as if you think you'll walk into your own book. and there are always going to be more sales guys than traders, its the nature of a market making flow business even at the bigger shops
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