If you’re an Analyst, we’re hiring part 2
I can’t say it was a shock, but the blog about our growing needs (see prior post “If you’re an Analyst, we’re hiring” Dec 7-09) has spurred on more than a couple great leads for new team members. We’ve also met a budding comedian/poet. Remember the Engineers at your Undergrad school? The lovable ones who nailed their “FOAD” letters to the wall of their room after they received a brush off from a corporate recruiter. I think we’ve met one of those types:
“Hello,
I suspect I could do this job, but I’m not going to send you my resume.
I mean, I have an engineering background, graduated first in my class, tons of math, etc., but I don’t really have the analyst skills. Every now and then I’ll stop the engineering have to do a day or two of business case analysis, but that’s not really the same, is it?
However, I’d like to make a career change, so I’ll make you an offer. If you can give a bit better definition as to what you mean by “Analyst skills” and the most sensible way to acquire them, I’ll try to go off and make a ton of money. At that point, maybe we can do some business together. Think of it as bread cast upon the waters.”
What do you think? Should we have he/she in for an interview?
MRM
I think you’d be a fool not to. You’ve got to love this guy’s chutzpah and honesty. I know several engineers that went on to become great analysts with a CFA to add to their P.Eng. Let me know how the interview goes.
I would Mark. The fact you’ve blogged him/her means he/she was smart enough to get noticed out of the pile in front of you. Given the math background at the least he/she sounds like someone who could run the office pools. I’d send back a message to the effect that you’re too busy to author a document to explain what you mean by “analyst skills” though and to have this person simply draft a job spec they think they would be qualified to do for you.
LOL… I think a phone call would answer a lot of questions.
I agree with the post above, a phone call would answer a lot of questions. Chutzpah goes a long way, but spunk via written correspondence is much easier than on the phone.
That and all hilarity aside, as an "analyst" at the start of their career in the field of finance, beyond all the ambition and entrepreneurial spirit everyone is bursting with – many young professionals seem to lack patience and humility. Perhaps as "young" as I am, I’m a bit old fashioned.
Forget the phone call, but set aside half an hour for a face to face. Six skill testing questions will enable you to separate the comedy writer from the potential associate.
Impostor!
Clearly a troll, engineers don’t write as well as that. Dead giveaway. Being one and having gone to school with many I should know. You may, for example, have attempted to read my blog before QED etc.