Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Yes... one problem I think you're hitting is that hiring criteria in your field is highly subjective. It's likely either based on previous successes (demonstrable), years doing it without losing a job, or just on third party qualifications.
That is going to tend to really lean against younger entries. A 25 year-old doesn't like have previous successes, probably not a very long track record, and third party qualifications would be entirely academic. Hence the obsession in these types of fields with doing your essay "the right way."
Someone coming fresh out of college with even a godlike mastery of finance and economics can't demonstrate their talents in a short resume or interview. Hiring managers look for buzzwords and hollow qualifications based on fifty year ideas about trustworthy institutions.
If you had pursued something like engineering or chemical engineering, you're dealing with smaller groups of peers. You're more typically dealing directly with companies trying to produce something, rather than manage finances in an almost abstract manner from prior productions.
Of course, my views are entirely limited to... well, myself and a few of my peers. I'm twenty, and graduated college two years ago, finishing high school at fourteen. I don't come from a highly esteemed university or background, and I don't know anyone or come from a prestigious university. I can't and won't B.S. an employer and I'm not particularly good at marketing myself. But I deal with companies that are wanting to make money, not manage it. There's an immediate profit motive there. Perhaps that is the difference.
Unfortunately, I think you chose a highly subjective and competitive field that gives more leaning to institution than it does to the desire to make money.
Sep 5, 2008, 3:07:00 AM
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