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| Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career | 
 enlarge | Author: Brett Jiu
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 71460
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st (2007)
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 268
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1432706810
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9781432706814
ASIN: 1432706810
Publication Date: June 18, 2007
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Product Description
All Practical, No BS!
Working in quantitative finance can be highly rewarding, in both intellectual and monetary terms (but especially the latter!). Quants-finance practitioners who develop and apply sophisticated mathematical and statistical models for asset pricing, trading and risk management-routinely make six figures, with the top ones raking in millions each year.
Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant is the first and only career guide specifically written for readers who want to get into quantitative finance and launch a lucrative career. It covers everything you wanted to know about getting a quant job, from writing an effective resume to acing job interviews to negotiating the job offer. Written by a practicing senior quant and packed with practical, useful tips (and devoid of BS that would get you nowhere), this book will help you get the quant job you want.
Want to know what the single most critical element of your resume is? Want to know how to impress any interviewer as well as what to say and what not to say at a job interview? Want to know which books to study to acquire the right kind of quantitative education, the kind relevant to finance, and to gain an edge over your competitors? You'll find the answers to these questions, and many more, in this insider's guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Helped me find a job February 14, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The title says it all: this book helped me find a desk quant job at a New York hedge fund. I'm getting my PHD in biostats and didn't know where to start to look for a finance job, when I bought the book. I found the resume chapter and the interview chapter particularly helpful. The author has a blog on Windows Live, where he shares lots of sample interview problems which also helped me prepare. He's also active on the mitbbs quant forum. A nice chap and I recommend this book highly.
 A very good overall book. December 4, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a pretty useful book and fully does the purpose it says on the title...original ideas written by the expert in the field. I ordered two other books on the subject. This one I liked the best. Although, I would have appreciated some more details, but I think that was not out-of-scope for this book.
A Must Read November 30, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book for those who are starting out in quantitative finance. The writing is very practical without excessive technical jargons or pompousness. It teaches you everything from what classes to take to how to prepare for the job interview.
 good book missing some key points November 5, 2007
45 out of 57 found this review helpful
I have been in front office development for 10 years. The author should be more realistic about his assumptions about getting a quant job. 1) your chances of getting a role as a proper quant are slim to none without having a phd. 2) Add Ivy League school to that Phd. Trust me I have read all the books the author mentioned, I have a MSc in Fin Eng, worked with many traders and PM's. If your smart enough to understand stochastic calc and heavy stats, but don't have Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, NYU etc.. go learn C++ and go into business for yourself don't waste time. There's alot of nepotism on Wall Street which is why there are very few funds that have serial correlation in returns. Its not how smart you are rather its where you went to school and who you know.
Exactly what I needed! October 20, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
For a starter like me, who were mystified and terrified by the prospect of competing and working in the financial sector when I first started looking for a job, this book told me everything I really needed to know. Unlike other self-help books of similar content, I never got a sense from the author that I was not being told the honest truth about Wall Street.
I strongly disagree with the previous reviewer who criticized the book as being "fluff" and "breezy". It's precisely the all-too-serious approach one sees so often in similar books that mystify a field which image is already being distorted in other media. The other books I have read seem to be "war stories" that're designed to glamourize the industry or the authors, or both. They left me dazzled with the prospect of becoming one of them, but confused with the question: now what? No one's path can be replicated exactly. It's one thing to hear about other's war story, it's another to prepare for your own. This book tells me how to stock up my own ammunition.
Now that I am working on Wall Street, the pointers given in this book helped me enormously, especially in the comprehensiveness of topics this book covers. The previous reviewer complained that not enough was written on what a quant do. I think he missed the point entirely. The books tells you exactly what a junior quant is expected to do, on a daily basis. Books with detailed history of financial engineering merely tell me what financial engineering is, but not what financial engineer actually does. The latter is what we readers really need to know.
One should keep in mind this book is about "how to launch a wall street career", in other word, getting your feet in, not "how to make millions as a wall street quant". Perhaps the author can save that for his second book. I'll be looking forward to it.
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