Autumn applications are around the corner, and your CV decides whether you make the first cut. Throughout August we're hosting CV clinics: bring your CV and get direct, honest feedback from people who actually screen candidates. What to lead with, what to cut, and how to make your experience read like it belongs on a desk.
Straight out of the CV workshop: people asked to see how a trading dashboard actually gets built, rather than just reading that it belongs on a CV. So we built one live, from an empty file to a working rates risk screen, explaining each decision as it happened. The full 56 minute replay is online, and the source code and slides are free to download.
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Straight out of the CV workshop: people asked to see how a trading dashboard actually gets built, rather than just reading that it belongs on a CV. So we built one live, from an empty file to a working rates risk screen. P&L attribution, DV01 laddering and historical simulation VaR across six sovereign markets, with every decision explained as it happened.
56 minutes
Start to finish, nothing cut but the top and tail
Full source code
Commented block by block, sample data included
15 slides as PDF
The maths, the gotchas and the CV bullet
The first Application Season workshop, and 30 of you turned up. We went through what a buyside CV needs to survive a six second scan, what to cut, and how to make experience read like it belongs on a desk. Plenty of CVs were rewritten live.
30 members
Our largest session so far
Live dashboard build
Held 20 Sep, replay and code online
Assessment Centre guide
Built from the questions asked on the night
Our launch event brought together a panel of buyside professionals from hedge funds, sell-side, data and recruitment to answer the questions you can't get honest answers to anywhere else. Real career paths, how they broke in, and what they look for when hiring. No PR, no corporate speak.
Rupesh Shah
Director, P&L Valuations
Vishal Jani
Rates Sales
Lisa Hammer
Buyside Sales
Will Steel
Director, Macro Recruitment
Kojo Asamoah
Python Engineer