When will headhunters stop asking for uni grades? (4YOE)
Hi everyone,
I am in a very peculiar place this year. I have been contacted over LinkedIn by a bunch of headhunters that recruit for T1 funds / commodity trading houses (the best being Citadel/Jump/Vitol) as I am currently a risk quant dev for a risk role.
We get on a call for half an hour, everything is great amd aligned, and the headhunter ask me for me CV so he can send it to the hiring manager. Just before we get off the call, the same question always pops up:"Oh btw, what grade did you get from your degree?" I then have to say I got a 2.2 (UK Russell group), they nervously laugh and in half an hour I get a text that they won't send my CV over in the end as these companies are very selective based on grades (which I am aware of).
My question is: When will they finally stop asking? Clearly my experience is a great match as this isn't a singular incident, and I have 4YOE at this point (mostly at 50/50 prop/util commodity house). How many years our of uni does one have to be for this to finally not be a black and white criterion?
I have tried to improve on this by completing a FRM (as I only have a Bachelor's degree and this is, among other things, independently benchmarked to be on par with a UK Masters degree) which is something that is graded and not everyone has it but noone seems to care once they learn about the grades.
As I obviously can't change my Bachelor's grade, is there anything I can do to get over this hurdle?
Thank you
EDIT: I should clarify I am looking at and being contacted about Risk QD / Risk roles