DominiConnor
Quant Headhunter
- Joined
- 9/6/06
- Messages
- 1,051
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As an homage to Emanuel Derman, I chose the title of "My life as a parasite" for an article I did for efinancial careers.
Finance jobs, banking jobs, recruitment in investment banking & in the financial markets
It is interesting to see how the response is quite different between candidates and my competitors, who really don't like me one little bit.
I appreciate that a number of quantnetters have never met me, but if you ask Dan Stefanica, he will confirm that I'm not pretty in real life.
From the responses on that site, my looks, and poor taste in clothes is a major reason that other HHs think themselves superior to me, since "of course" the appearance of your HH is the most important thing.
Some of you won't have been to big conferences or Finance Focus talks, or the quant events we promote with Bloomberg. Thus you won't have seen the way most HHs act when the room is full of people talking about finance. They stand in the corner (wearing nice suits), talking to other HHs. They are sometimes the only people wearing suits, since most of us dress business causal these days. I've never worked out what they gain from trekking to a meeting which they don't take part in.
Apparently I've broken some HH code of honour by asking questions at conferences.
I'm also "self important" ?
Moi ?
Finance jobs, banking jobs, recruitment in investment banking & in the financial markets
It is interesting to see how the response is quite different between candidates and my competitors, who really don't like me one little bit.
I appreciate that a number of quantnetters have never met me, but if you ask Dan Stefanica, he will confirm that I'm not pretty in real life.
From the responses on that site, my looks, and poor taste in clothes is a major reason that other HHs think themselves superior to me, since "of course" the appearance of your HH is the most important thing.
Some of you won't have been to big conferences or Finance Focus talks, or the quant events we promote with Bloomberg. Thus you won't have seen the way most HHs act when the room is full of people talking about finance. They stand in the corner (wearing nice suits), talking to other HHs. They are sometimes the only people wearing suits, since most of us dress business causal these days. I've never worked out what they gain from trekking to a meeting which they don't take part in.
Apparently I've broken some HH code of honour by asking questions at conferences.
I'm also "self important" ?
Moi ?