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How to Avoid IT Positions

OllieKing

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Currently I'm a quantitative developer at a medium size insurance company for the front office derivatives team. I graduated with my BS in Mathematics and Physics about a year ago. In my current job, I spent the first 6 months automating front office operations and writing applications to process trade and market data. But for the last 6 months (and probably for the next 6 months) I have been forced to help out the middle office replace some of their expensive collateral management products with in-house web apps. I can't stand web development. Especially for processes that are so boring.

I want to start applying for more math-oriented quant positions, but I am having trouble wording my resume to sound more like a quant analyst than a software developer.

What do employers look for in a resume to distinguish IT-oriented developers from real quant analysts?
 
"Quantitative developer" reads "developer", not "quantitative", and from the description of what you've been doing, indeed it sounds like a development job.

I think you'll have a tough time seeming more of a quant if BS is your highest level of education. Can you maybe through networking move internally to a quant position?
 
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