When I talk to customers that have signed up to work with our buy-side interview prep services, I try to instill in them that the interview process is really a long, sometimes drawn out, sales pitch. You are selling your skills and talents and hoping the buyer (the hedge fund or buy side organization) thinks he will get more value from you than what you cost. What is valuable to a hedge fund?  How does a hedge fund make money.  Let’s break it down as simply as possible: Management fees which is based on AUM Performance fees, or carry, which …

Here is my updated list of Julia Robertson’s Tiger Cubs…If anyone has any additions, please email me at hunter [at] distressed-debt-investing [dot] come Tiger Management – Julian Robertson Blue Ridge Capital – John Griffin Bridger Management – Roberto Mignone Valinor Management – David Gallo Maverick Capital – Lee Ainslie Highside Capital Management – Lee Hobson Impala Asset Management – Robert Bishop Viking Global Investors – Andreas Halvorsen Tiger Eye Capital – Benjamin Gambill Hoplite Capital – John Lykouretzos Touradji Capital – Paul Touradji Lone Pine Capital – Stephen Mandel White Elm Capital – Matthew Iorio Conatus Capital – David Stemerman …

One of the first questions I like to ask clients when starting to work them with our hedge fund resume service is “What are you trying to accomplish with this resume?”  More often that not, the resumes I see being sent to recruiters as well as those I see on my desk when hiring for positions internally, can be summarized as paper full of a bunch of activities and duties you did at previous jobs. In my mind, this is not the way to approach a resume targeted to getting a buy side job.  What question will a hedge fund manager …

Later this week, we are officially launching a service to help hedge fund candidates and applicants to tailor their resumes and beef up their case studies so they can move forward to their goals of attaining a job at a hedge fund.  Stay tuned!

To start, I would like to open up my commentary to not solely hedge fund jobs, but also to the more general, “buy side jobs.” I will lop all research analysts, traders, and portfolio managers at mutual funds, insurance companies, endowments, etc into this category. In my opinion, for many of you looking to make the jump to a hedge fund career and are having difficulty, you might want to start looking for the more general buy side jobs and then making the switch 2 years down the line. When I pull up the JOBS function on Bloomberg, and look for …