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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KillingField" data-source="post: 276053" data-attributes="member: 33740">You should start applying for internships now. The annual hiring cycles are about to start around this time of the year, and you'd then be looking to start work early summer. So ideally you'd do a 6 month internship and manage to convert it to a full time position. Now covid may have cut fulltime hiring in some places, so converting to a fulltime position may not be possible, but at the very least you'll then have a much improved CV, and a better taste of the industry and hopefully a better idea of what kind of a role you would like.Given you seem to have no programming experience (one-man bash/matlab/python scripting doesn't count as such), this is the area that you should concentrate on immediately, for a strong background in a systems language like C++ will immediately make you a more employable candidate. You will also want to spend a couple of months practicing interview questions in general (not just coding), and so the time to start really is now.Some banks (at least GS, JPM) have teams doing quantum computing (and have published papers on the subject, too). You could try and find the relevant names and reach out to them on LinkedIn or whatever and see if they might have openings. That is, if you want to stay on the academic side of things rather than finance per se.As for job market, with a bit of Googling, you will see that some of the firms that advertise their jobs openly are still hiring, and by the looks of it, some are even expanding. There's always demand for quants with a couple of years of experience on their CVs.</blockquote>

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