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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 110465" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>I’ve worked for two prominent asset management companies, albeit on the graduate recruitment side, so can provide some insight into this.</p><p></p><p>I think you would find it difficult to transfer to a qualified level role. Like if it was the other way around (eg investment to law), I would expect you would need direct experience in investment to meet the market standards for that role, and that you would most likely be directed to graduate programmes. Some asset managers offer career changer programmes, but these tend to be on the client management side rather than with the investment teams.</p><p></p><p>I did the recruitment for an asset manager last year and we had a range of career changers enter their investment graduate programme. We had a number of coming up to NQ or recently NQ lawyers apply for their graduate programme too - and they didn’t get that, let alone get into a more senior role. Other career changers who secured the graduate programme were at the absolute pinnacle of their previous industry, and they were starting from scratch too.</p><p></p><p>It might be different in other parts of the industry, or with much smaller/less well known companies. For the specific niche you are looking at, it might be different too (I don’t know enough about that specifically). But generally investment careers make law look really uncompetitive when the application numbers and standards are compared - therefore I don’t think it is an easy move. Not to say it isn’t impossible, and maybe if you build up really strong networks S a lawyer you could strengthen your chances, but I still expect the best chance would be a “you’d have to start again from the bottom and work your way up” approach to entering the career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 110465, member: 2672"] I’ve worked for two prominent asset management companies, albeit on the graduate recruitment side, so can provide some insight into this. I think you would find it difficult to transfer to a qualified level role. Like if it was the other way around (eg investment to law), I would expect you would need direct experience in investment to meet the market standards for that role, and that you would most likely be directed to graduate programmes. Some asset managers offer career changer programmes, but these tend to be on the client management side rather than with the investment teams. I did the recruitment for an asset manager last year and we had a range of career changers enter their investment graduate programme. We had a number of coming up to NQ or recently NQ lawyers apply for their graduate programme too - and they didn’t get that, let alone get into a more senior role. Other career changers who secured the graduate programme were at the absolute pinnacle of their previous industry, and they were starting from scratch too. It might be different in other parts of the industry, or with much smaller/less well known companies. For the specific niche you are looking at, it might be different too (I don’t know enough about that specifically). But generally investment careers make law look really uncompetitive when the application numbers and standards are compared - therefore I don’t think it is an easy move. Not to say it isn’t impossible, and maybe if you build up really strong networks S a lawyer you could strengthen your chances, but I still expect the best chance would be a “you’d have to start again from the bottom and work your way up” approach to entering the career. [/QUOTE]
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