I'm in a mid-career transition (I'm 40), looking to move to New York and begin anew, directly in financial markets. I would appreciate your thoughts about whether I could land a quant job. I have a PhD, but it's not in mathematics or finance - it's in a natural resources field. The dissertation was pretty quantitative - a lot of spatial statistics - but my undergraduate training was also not in finance.
I'm now a professor in a mostly non-quantitative area (public policy). I am Director of a finance-oriented research center, though it doesn't deal with financial markets directly. I have substantial senior management experience, some in the private sector. I'm Excel savvy but have not done C++ or Java programming.
I saw several entry level quant jobs on this network but they all seem to require something I lack, usually the programming skills. Do you think I could take some online certificate courses in C++ and Java and be competitive for one of these positions? Anything else I'd need to do?
Thanks in advance for any insights.
I'm now a professor in a mostly non-quantitative area (public policy). I am Director of a finance-oriented research center, though it doesn't deal with financial markets directly. I have substantial senior management experience, some in the private sector. I'm Excel savvy but have not done C++ or Java programming.
I saw several entry level quant jobs on this network but they all seem to require something I lack, usually the programming skills. Do you think I could take some online certificate courses in C++ and Java and be competitive for one of these positions? Anything else I'd need to do?
Thanks in advance for any insights.