“The last thing a hedge fund recruiter wants to see is a generic resume that could easily have been written by someone who is either amazing or terrible,” Breault says. Don't talk abstrusely about your intangible soft skills.'īreak down difficult situations you’ve encountered and detail how you personally overcame them to generate compelling results, whether financially or otherwise. If you're moving into a fund from IBD, you need to talk about exactly which deals you worked on and exactly what you did on those deals. 'When you're adding information to your CV it needs to be quantifiable and qualifiable. 'There's a very no-nonsense approach to CVs in the hedge fund industry,' he says. Hedge fund recruiters want to see quantifiable personal results, not bullet-pointed responsibilities, says John Breault, chief executive of New York-based hedge fund recruiter Breault & Smith.Ĭharles Morrison, a hedge fund search consultant at London-based Altus Partners, agrees. The STAR method (situation, task, analysis and result) is often used as a job interview technique, but the concept is easily transferable to resume writing. So, which attributes should you have on your hedge fund CV? We spoke to top hedge fund recruiters in New York and London. And you'll need to have an outstandingly good CV. If you're going to get in, you'll need to be exceptional. Like private equity jobs, hedge fund jobs are massively over-subscribed. That's fine, but don't expect finding a job to be easy.

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