So I met up a head hunter, he gave me one min for the following question. I was wondering what you will touch on in that one minute… 1. US economy 2. European economy If anyone want to answer Asia, feel free to. I found it extremely difficult to answer these boundary-free questions. Any tips?
top down…pretty straight forward. Start with major headlines and briefly drill down into each.
In my humble opinion, and with all due respect, that head hunter is a f*cking idiot. We manage exposures across $500B worth of assets and we’ve been grappling over those issues for the past year with incredible resources and still no finite resolution. Those are questions, every fund manager is struggling with right now and to think you can sum it up in 1 minute is idiocy. And this is the sort of catchphrase driven moronic behavior that MBA’s excel at in their ongoing quest to f*ck up every unf*ckable thing around them.
Actually, now that I think about it, I think I just answered that quite nicely with at least 30 seconds to spare.
Open-ended questions are usually the challenging ones. But just as many other things,these questions do help when you have a good knowledge about what’s going on - especially when you keep your reading newspaper or watching TV news. I don’t know if there is any best way to answer. But maybe touch the key points (maybe those generic ones first) and then via interaction, you will find more specific questions.
Answer: I believe demographics may be a major factor. If you could just give me an idea of what you need to know we can certainly arrange a meeting next week. In a weeks time I will be able to provide you with a balanced opinion to assist in your decision making. How about Wednesday at 9am for 30 minutes? Other than that I second Black Swan.
All interview questions are acting tests. Why should this be any different?
What Ohai said. What you say doesn’t matter nearly as much as how you say it. With that said, if I was given truth serum and forced to answer, I’d say something like what Black Swan said. The idea of ‘summing up’ the U.S. economy in one minute sounds like a great way to make some spectacularly bad predictions. I’d feel far more comfortable trying to make a 1-, 3-, or 5-yr prediction on a security or two I liked or disliked than trying to divine what the U.S. economy will do over the next 12 months.
ohai Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All interview questions are acting tests. Why > should this be any different? Especially from a HH… who won’t even be able to judge what you say.
Black Swan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my humble opinion, and with all due respect, > that head hunter is a f*cking idiot. We manage > exposures across $500B worth of assets and we’ve > been grappling over those issues for the past year > with incredible resources and still no finite > resolution. Those are questions, every fund > manager is struggling with right now and to think > you can sum it up in 1 minute is idiocy. And this > is the sort of catchphrase driven moronic behavior > that MBA’s excel at in their ongoing quest to f*ck > up every unf*ckable thing around them. You are hired
well said black swan. Unfortunately, the bloody HH is the one holding the key to the job… I don’t believe all HH don’t know what they’re talking about, I have seen HH that was ex-banker or PM. They simply want to leverage their network so they switched field. To my misfortune, this is one of them. She’s ex-Lehman and also was on the Schroder team as a senior analyst for a while… Did I mention she’s also a charter holder?..damn…
yuoska Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > well said black swan. > > Unfortunately, the bloody HH is the one holding > the key to the job… > > I don’t believe all HH don’t know what they’re > talking about, I have seen HH that was ex-banker > or PM. They simply want to leverage their network > so they switched field. To my misfortune, this is > one of them. She’s ex-Lehman and also was on the > Schroder team as a senior analyst for a while… > Did I mention she’s also a charter > holder?..damn… Actually none if those things impresses me or indicates she has any clue whatsoever. She sounds like all talk. Maybe if Lehman’d heeded my little rant they wouldn’t have been sitting on $billions of bad mortgages…damn…