8 Tips for Writing Effective Job Adverts
Have you ever read (or maybe even written) an advert that starts something like "We are looking for a quant strategist with excellent communications skills”?
Could your mindset be affecting your interview performance? [Use CBT to change it]
During a market research process, I was interviewing our customers and had a candidate scheduled in (let’s call her Feng) whom I was told had some communication challenges. She’d failed several job interviews with clients because they couldn’t get her to share much information about her previous role. And this, of course, was a problem. Our clients were trying to assess whether she had the skills to become a portfolio manager at their hedge fund but couldn’t gather enough information from her. Thus, she lost out on great opportunities.
