Quick background: Graduated from a target school with a STEM degree (shit GPA of 3.0), interned at SpaceX, an NBA team, and Capital One. My friend who works at a prop shop said I would be good as a hedge fund analyst bc "you might not have the raw quantitative skills to work as a quant, but you are hardworking, smart, and have an interesting background so you should look into hedge fund analyst jobs". I'm not sure the best way to go about these, do I work with headhunters, just email / cold call? Thanks for sharing your insight.

Honestly your chances are slim, unless you're a notable player that may help that firm with great connections in the business world that gives them a competitive advantage. Reality is all the guys gunning for HF roles are hardworking and smart, now while they likely won't have as interesting a background as yours, they are quantitative and know their finance shit. My advice is go try an MBA and break in that way. If you can do some IB before your MBA all the better. Just my two cents. Others may have different opinions.

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