How to make it when you're not the typical WASP?

Denzera
Sat, 26 May 2007 17:01:46 +0000

first of all, most top recruiters won’t charge you if you’re a candidate they believe in. They’re hired to find the right people for these hard-to-get jobs, and they get paid when the company hires one of their guys. You’re not hiring an agent like an author or ballplayer, you’re convincing a recruiter to buy what you’re selling, and then get them to sell you to companies.

I don’t presume to offer advice. You have, it seems, two very distinct yet viable paths: (1) attempt to play the recruiting market and do well in it, or, (2) go back to school in the US for a financially-related degree and then try to get placed.

With regards to the latter, getting an MBA from anything but a top school won’t really help you in trying to get the better jobs in the finance world. But getting a masters in something (Operations Research, FinEng, etc) may get you looked at as a more serious candidate. It’s also a lot easier to get in to top masters programs than it is to get into top Undergraduate programs (to say nothing of top MBA programs)