Shall I take this offer? Hi experts there, I got an offer from a company providing trustee, fund admin and custodian services. The job scope is mainly verification of data from Reuter and Bloomberg System using VBA. Yet development comes as 2nd priority, maintenance seems to play a bigger role. So this position opens to both Business and IT graduates. I am an IT fresh graduate, with the ambition to get into core business of banking industry in the long run. Taking this job, I get to learn about Reuter and Bloomberg as well as basic knowledge for securities, derivatives and fixed income. Yet I am wondering how such working experience benefits me if I hope to be involved in core business in the long run. Second, what is difference between the kind of exposure I can get from such company compared to working in IT department in a bank or an out-sourced company? Urgently looking forward to your advice. Cheers. Thank you very much.

我觉得你这样说大家还是不清楚这份工作要做什么。。也不好给你什么建议。 好像工作技术要求不太高，这种工作的好处就是压力不大，有更多时间学习。 你如果对于这份工作不满意，不妨再找找，反正还没毕业呢。

this one is a typical middle office job.you will download data into spreadsheet and run those macros to generate some reports or some data required by trading desk for their decision making. Everyday you will be doing the same thing. If you wanna jump from this position to front Office, of coz possible. Anything is possible because all kinds jobs I ever see some cases that ppl directly go into trading biz . like Computing, Engineering, even arts and social science. It all depends on your own personal quality and LUCK, sorry , have to say this. I know millions of ppl is dreaming the same dream, so you must make yourself different to let the employer hire you and you need to be good at networking. know more traders. know them well. let them know you well also. so that when they know the positions, they can think of you. anyway, this is just a good offer, if the salary not bad, go for it. the subsequent jump all depends on what you are doing in your job and out of your job. good luck!

hehe, this kind of discussion will then last till no end.well, my personal point of view. Traders might be outspoken or intraverted, they may be silent in a party while the other type of them might be very shining. But a good one will always have the following I THINK: 1. great confidence of self-judgement. Believe themselves can see something more clearly than most of the ppl in the market. and During cases when market moving not in their favor, they can still stay on, of coz, before their stop loss line was touched. 2. extreme discipline. If they have 1 but do not have point 2. they will probably end up with losing all the wealth. because they might just do not believe they are wrong in some big positions and refuse to cut loss despite of well-set stop loss line, then all finish. 3. Intelligent. Of coz, this is required by most of the careers. including science and engineering and IT etc 4. have clear goals. 5. can handle tough situations in life well. This is a general characteristic of ppl havin (more...)

from what you asked,i can sensed that you wanted this one? actually... i do not think it will benefit too much for your future plan. since ur "front desk" are not managing portfolios or trading, I suppose it is not too much benefit direclty to you. plus you said the pay is not that good. Then i think the position was set for Diploma holders only, like poly graduates without any Univ. degrees. i might guess it is 2000 to 2500? then suggest do not take it

er? diff a bitdepend on what that account team is working for? are they working for product control (i.e. serving the front office people ) or they doing accouting report for the company. the later is considered as less related to trading and investment activities. you can expect to learn quite a lot of things on the valution side and products (based on your discreption, the prices for different product. notice some derivative pricing could be quite tricky and require certain "expertise"). er, i also expect less pressure for this position than for those working with traders directly. and maybe less excitement also. i cann't say whether this position will help you or not. becz as someone posted earlier, people switched to trading/frontoffice from all kinds of background. it's not unusual for accountants to move to middleOffice and frontoffice. just my two cents.