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I'm looking for is a sales related role in equities or FX, and am open to working in a brokerage, hedge fund, or investment bank. I'd quite like to move to Asia, but am open to settling in London for the right opportunity.

Education:

10/2004-09/2008 Masters in Business, continental European university

Diploma thesis: The underpricing puzzle of IPOs analyzed at the stock exchange of Hong

Kong (Quantitative Analysis of IPO performances in the years from 2005-2007

Study focus: International Finance, Global Capital Markets

07/2006-07/2007 Asian university

Honors degree (2:1)

Graduate School of Pan Pacific international Studies

Achieved GPA of 4.15 (out of 4.3)

Courses: Finance, Accounting, Portfolio management, Business & Marketing

09/2001-07/2003 Technical College in continental Europe

Focus on natural sciences; Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry

Work Experience:

03/2009 - Hedge fund, Continental Europe

Alternative Investment Analyst (Equity and Credit Strategies)

Marketing and communicating the strategy of the equity long-short fund (black-box model), and the government guaranteed credit fund.

Participation on road-show events for the credit fund.

Originating and Capital-Raising (~20mln) from institutions (e.g. fund of hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers).

Conducting Due-Diligence on SME's in Germany and subsequently completing business

reports on them.

Soliciting new investors and coordinating existing clients' requests.

12/2007-03/2008 Major German investment bank

Global Markets, Foreign Exchange Sales (Institutional)

Experiences in a variety of aspects within FX-cash and options sales (e.g. Forwards, NDFs, Swaps, Derivatives)

Structuring of derivatives strategies and building excel spread sheets to mirror the specific needs of their clients.

Delivering best execution and providing investment advice on FX-strategies; proving the ability of working accurately under pressure.

Strong interaction with other employees in the bank to foster team building.

07/2007-11/2007 Major asset management firm in Hong Kong

Equity Trading (Execution) and Business Analysis.

Completing a major project to analyze the investment performance of their individual funds with IPO participations (based on a comprehensive excel sheet).

Successfully enhancing work flows and portfolio strategies; analyzing the impact of dark-pools on individual stocks' performance; Researching soft-dollar and commission sharing

Agreements.

Assisting in trade execution and settlement processes (technical analysis, day trading).

Conducting Due-Diligence on prime brokers in Hong Kong for their new equity long-short fund (130/30 Strategy).

Participating in major industry conferences (Focused on equity-trading).

Obtained securities trading license with the SFC in Hong Kong.

Relevant Skills:

Languages:

German: Primary language

English: Fluent in speaking, reading and writing

Spanish: Basic level

Korean: Basic level

IT-Skills:

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); Bloomberg Professional and Thomson Reuters; SPSS

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    sani Aminu
    17 August 2009

    Great CV,particularly that the poor candidate has chalked-up enough credentials under his belt. Though, while we all acknowledge the market is tough, there is no statiscal or imperical evidence to suggest that there is a perfect way of producing a winnable CV. Simply put, it just happens that most candidate would have to learn to deal with the "invicibel" hand of labour market bias.
    Significantly that [...the said] candidate has spent great deal of time and effort building up a portfolio of knowledge put him in a good position to stand the test of time relative to those whose careers opportunities is being build around who you know-a common disease that has plaqued most professional corporate institutions.
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    Lehman Brothers. Bear Sterns and Northern Rocks all have polished CVs. But they lack the skill and vision to tell the world the state of affairs of the global economy is heading toward the rock. take ht

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    CV poster
    17 August 2009

    @ Basil:
    I can answer that question if you give me your private or work-email. Not on this forum.

    @ goodluck:
    Useful comment, as you say finding a job depends on a fair portion of luck as well. And indeed thinking in a way of how I can attribute to enhance work-results will be needed to land and strive in a job.

    thanks all for your comments

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    goodluck
    16 August 2009

    Nothing wrong with details of job or education but you failed to quantify your achievements and successes in the three jobs you did have. What value did you bring to your employer every day you showed up at work.
    You may find it hard at the beginning to think in terms of deliverables to your boss but keep thinking and revising your results until you get good at it. During an interview do the same. You should talk less and give two or three concrete examples of quantifiable achievements. Good luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity so take time now to prepare so when interview comes up you have two or three concrete examples of benefits you can deliver on the specific opportunity you are alpplying for.

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    Basil
    14 August 2009

    What base salary do you envisage?

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    CV poster
    14 August 2009

    @ Sir Larry:
    You figured it, the first two jobs are Internships that I have done while completing my 4-yrs bachelors (hons) degree in GER.
    I did one year abroad in Asia (exchange) no additional degree.

    In short: I graduated last year 09/08 and got my first job this march which I partially blame on the f-crisis. I actually was offered a sales-trading position with a broker in the Middle East, but headcount got frozen just beginning 09.

    @ Ari:
    Thanks a lot for your comments. I hope the statement above helps to understand the dates on my work-experience.
    Do you think it'd be better to change the sections-name to employment history as Larry suggests?

    also as Shabba suggest to put the work-experience first? why not academic history first, as I still am a fairly recent graduate?

    and Ari:
    The course I studied is just very common in GER and doing a year abroad plus the two internships is a bit more than usual GER grads can offer. Also I've done my two internships at top-tier institutions.

    @spoilt expat:
    I agree, on a more junior level there is lots of supply in the local markets. However my network there might help (hopefully)

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