CV Optimisation for Quant Careers I
If you've had the sort of academic path suitable for a career in quant finance, then you have got through a decent number of filters by showing that you are smart.
Smart is good for finance, but once you get into the game of looking for a job, then the relevance of what you can do becomes more important.
If you are going for some trading jobs, "too much" quant skill can actually work against you, though for others, more is better. So finding out as much as possible is very important here. But often you can't, so the solution is to have different ratios of the space you give to each set skills in multiple versions of your CV.
Smart is good for finance, but once you get into the game of looking for a job, then the relevance of what you can do becomes more important.
If you are going for some trading jobs, "too much" quant skill can actually work against you, though for others, more is better. So finding out as much as possible is very important here. But often you can't, so the solution is to have different ratios of the space you give to each set skills in multiple versions of your CV.
