Seeking Career Advice
Originally from Asia, did my STEM PG degree in the UK then stumbled into the London hedge fund world. Was hired as an intern to work directly with a senior L/S PM, started by doing ad-hoc excel sheets/analysis for him both on individual names and at the portfolio level, then learned to pick stocks. The PM is very senior and a generalist, working directly for him as a junior made my experience very unusual - he is extremely knowledgable about nearly all European mid to large caps business fundamentals, and he never discusses 'the business' with me, only wants to know if the stock is going up - I looked at all sectors but only at a surface level (drivers/key debates/views) and have to move from name to name very quickly, usually just having a rough sense of the direction of the stock without understanding the fundamentals. I don't do research per se, but outsource them to the sell side, the daily job is to constantly search for out of consensus views/inflection points/actionable ideas. 2-3 years later the PM expanded the team, hiring several sector focused analysts and my role started to diminish and was ultimately let go after 4 years.
So my current skillset doesn't resemble a typical 4 yoe analyst -> no sector specialisation, no fundamental research experience, know how to pick stocks (If this, this and that, the stock is likely to go up), and know a bit about portfolio management.
Finding a job is extremely difficult now, don't know how much is attributed to my profile and how much is to the overall hiring market. I get a few looks from the platforms, had chats with BizDev people, interviewed with 2 PMs, but was not selected.
My question is what should I do next? Been out of job for a while now. Should I develop some sector specialisation and try to get hired by the platforms?
Can you please DM me if you can help? Really need guidance from someone more experienced.
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