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It's a really good question Vara - I think it really depends on the sector and locations you're interested in. E.g. with the tech layoffs, there'd be zero stigma to having a visible "open to work" banner, but perhaps recruiters might see you as being easier to negotiate downwards on salary? I think the best bet is always to contact recruiters in the sector directly... essentially going upstream on where the jobs are released. I hope this helps - and if you want to give me an idea of what you're targeting I can give my specific thoughts :-) Cheers, Raj

Thanks for sharing!

Ahhh thanks chap! Most kind :-)

I really appreciate this @danielpabu5848. Good luck with those applications! :-) Raj

Thanks @jasoncolap! :-) Raj

Hi @stewiegriffin1938, this is hugely appreciated. I'm glad the videos are proving useful. I have 1-1 consultations via this link: calendly.com/raj-concorde/consultation - Cheers, Raj

Ah thanks! I appreciate it :-) Raj

I know right!! (and thanks, Jorge, you superstar!)

Honestly, that's a fair comment @antonytanno. One counterpoint: money can act as a brake on career change as much as a facilitator, for some. But there's no doubt savings and other priveleges made my change a lot easier than it would otherwise be. Thanks for watching and I wish you all the very best. Raj

Thank you for letting me know this @maysielaftah7738 - I'm glad both the questions and the resources were helpful :-) I wish you all the best with your potential career change! Raj

Hi @maysielaftah7738, this is a great question! Would you be happy if I covered it in my next video? I think others might be interested in your question too! Raj :-)

I really appreciate this comment @jaymayhoi - and the insight. I think it's super tricky to be aware (in real time) that this judgement might be happening - but so valuable when you do see it. I hope you found another approach that worked for you?

@@rajsidhu yes, I eventually "took some risks" and dipped my feet in a few career pathways, some which I dismissed, and have now landed on one which I'm really enjoying

@@jaymayhoi I'm glad - and I also believe that's the best possible way... be guided by the experiences you have. I'm also a massive believer that sometimes the least risky option is to take the risk. Congratulations 🙂

Ahh thanks @hassansyed6087 I really appreciate this! The variable change really was the key and it was such a subtle - and unexpected thing. I agree - one thing really can pivot a whole perspective. I hope you find that, or have found it already :-) Raj

This is the nicest comment @KateWoods-qi9yk. THANK YOU!!! :-) Raj

Hey Brian, these are great questions, thank you for asking. I’ll try my best to answer each in turn: (i) as to why people become investment bankers, I’d say the financial rewards are the biggest reason (perhaps 80%+ of people). There will be other reasons too, e.g. a sense of prestige/accomplishment, or people not knowing what they want to do, so just earning money while they figure it out. (ii) I don’t think a person necessarily needs to be materialistic to become an investment banker, but I suppose most are… or they’re searching for something… perhaps to out-run a sense of financial security (insecurity is perhaps a driver too therefore). (iii) Honestly I’m not sure investment banking provides a great deal of social value at the moment. There’s an argument it provides markets for trades to occur, others might argue it allows capitalism to function more smoothly through facilitating mergers, me personally - I think it’s a bit of a stretch and perhaps the costs outweigh the benefits, societally (I’m thinking of bailouts and financial volatility etc). At the very least I think it could be less extractive and opqaue and just perform these functions in a more utilitarian way. I often spent time on the trading floor thinking these brilliant minds could be put to far better societal use. On money and happiness - and whether that equates more in youth, I think that’s a super interesting question. I think it’s going to be different for everyone. For me, earning money early on meant having more options later on, and I was conscious of that. Also, with the way compounding works, I figured it might be better to gather resources early- plus I felt more secure after growing up with not much money. I definitely saw a lot of people in investment banks who were totally stuck - or at least felt stuck - rather like that lawyer person in his 50s you mentioned…. That was always difficult to watch and be around. @briansmith2836 what makes you ask? (I'm genuinnely interested) and what things have been important to you in your career? And would you mind if I featured some of these awesome questions on a video I’m making that’ll be out in a month or so? Raj :-)

@@rajsidhu Hi, I should note the person I mentioned has a PhD in aeronautical engineering ( sorry for typos in previous post). I was interested in investment banking in general because I didn't really know what one does as an investment banker ( too lazy to use Google, I guess lol). I should note my late father's friend is best friend's with Gen Wes Clark and he went on to become an investment banker in NY after her ran for president. I was introduced years ago to the head trader for the George Soros family fund ( he made a ton of money for himself making money for Soros and his family- he has an MBA and I know his home is worth well over 10 million usd). I am interested to know what makes people happy so was always curious as to whether large amounts of wealth make people happy ( from everything I have read, including on Buddhism, large amts of wealth does not suddenly make one happy if one was not already happy ( not due to financial issues) before they amassed wealth). I was reading a book some time back where the writer mentioned how he knows the doorman of a building where billionaires live and the doorman mentioned to him how all he sees day in and day out are sour/ unhappy faces as these billionaires come and go and he wondered why they wouldn't walk around with smiles given how much wealth they have. He noted it was incredible how these billionaires constantly had unhappy looks on their faces. The writer also mentioned his very wealthy friend who took his huge yacht for 3 months to S America and came back in disbelief noting how he saw masses of incredibly poor people but they looked genuinely happy, smiles on their faces, friendly with others around them. I am getting off topic but just wanted to mention my interest in the relationship between wealth and happiness. I assume all investment bankers start with a degree in finance( I guess many don't have MBAs). As for me, I started in the sciences thinking I should try for medical school but that was what my parents wanted( I had very high marks in the sciences in high school and received early admission to the top universities here in Canada). I eventually completed 3 university degrees in social sciences( history, international relations and public administration), including a masters ( I was accepted to law school after writing my lsat but didn't have much interest so never went). My problem was that although I was good academically I never really knew what to do in life so ended up working for the Canadian federal government for years, even though the work was boring. I never had real interests in any one field as a kid so found it very difficult to pursue any area of study that I was really interested in, that could lead to a fulfilling career. I think the key to happiness is doing something that brings you joy ( if it is investment banking then that is great). If one does a job that does not bring them joy, regardless of how great the income, it makes for a much more difficult life. Before I ramble on and forget, yes go ahead and use anything I wrote to you in any upcoming video of yours. It sounds like you made the right decision to leave as you were aware that your job was not making you happy and if you stayed it would just stay that way until you retired or dropped dead. I think that goes for any job, if you are unhappy and feel unfulfilled doing what you do for a living you needed to look to make changes, even radical ones like quitting and pursuing something completely different. Most of the kids I went to high school with ended up as doctors, layers and/or professors of sciences with a couple that obtained MBAs. one friend is head of the department of engineering at a Canadian university and he told me how he has no time for his kids because he is so busy with work ( he used to be a professor and absolutely loved teaching students and doing biomedical research) so that must be difficult, as those years he misses out on being with his kids he will never get back, and no matter how great a reputation he has at university it won't really matter to his growing sons as they would rather have a father that spent time with them. But I envy him because he is doing something re work that brings him great satisfaction AND he is making a positive difference in the lives of his students. I know that if I had a great deal of money I would spend it on others that need help as that would bring me satisfaction ( I know that because I gave spent a lot of money over the years helping people that were worse off than I was); if I could have, I would have gone into investment banking or some area of finance for a number of years to try to make a ton of money with the intent to give most of the money away to help others. I wish back in high school I knew about finance and careers in finance ( I literally had no idea that there were finance degrees back in high school as my dad was an engineer and I just focused on sciences so was oblivious to the fact that people could actually get degrees in finance- we had no courses in economics or finance back in high school). I would be interested to hear more from you in a video about investment banking as in the previous the video you discussed investment banking, you only talked a few minutes ( or less) about what investment bankers do. I would also be curious to know whether you found many in the investment banking world to be selfish or whether there were a fair share of those who went out of their way to share some of their wealth with those less fortunate ( when I think of investment bankers I have an image of some miser who is only interested in amassing wealth, but that probably does not apply to many in the investment banking world, or at least I hope that is the case but you would know given you know so many investment bankers).Also, is it very stressful being an investment banker and how many hours per day do investment bankers work? Family physicians in Canada work incredibly long hours ( including weekends where they do paperwork) are very stressed from having so many patients ( with tons of paper work associated with each) and end of day the income is not that great, considering how much time they actually spend working at home ( they don't get paid for most paperwork) and in their office with patients. I should also ask what you did " on the trading floor" and also ask why you noted all the " brilliant minds" when referring to investment bankers you were with. By brilliant did you mean when it came to financial matters or would you say most/ many investment bankers have brilliant minds when it comes to more to just finance? I think I would say the most " brilliant" people I have known are doctors because the ones I know are very well rounded in that they have interests and knowledge that go far beyond "just" medicine. Would you say investment bankers are quite knowledgeable about many topics, beyond just the area of finance?

@@rajsidhu should have added in my reply to you that of the people I know or have known, I think the one with the best job in the world is that of my best friend since childhood. He has been writing for the Simpsons for over 20 years. He is surrounded by hilarious people, gets to make others laugh, is constantly laughing and gets a great income to do so. He also gets to meet all the famous celebrities that do the guest voices during various episodes. He got to meet Mick Jagger, amongst many other famous celebrities. I would kill for a job like that; he was always the class clown in school, but he did get a science degree and MBA before he broke through in LA; I should note that most of the writers for the Simpsons are highly educated and many with Harvard degrees. One more thing, how did you know you wanted to become an investment banker and did you already know in high school you would get a finance degree? Finally, did they offer finance courses in your high school? I guess maybe unlike when I went to high school the schools across N America now offer finance courses, at least as options.

Thank you @simonbillinton, I appreciate it!

I'm glad you enjoyed it @jaymayhoi :-) Raj

Thank you @PeaceAkaShanti!

Nicely handled there, Ato... "loaded" is exactly the right word! Raj

Sometimes fewer words can be more effective @joshuahutt and I think your approach is a solid way to tease out their motivation - and also to test their level of their interest in asking the question. Ideally interviewers would never ask this question, and so negating the need for misdirection etc

@@rajsidhu it’s really tough, because sometimes you really need a job and feel pressured to just shrug off a bad question or an uncomfortable process. I’m not sure if that’s worth it or not, but I wouldn’t judge somebody for doing it.

I get that @joshuahutt. The process - and unfortunately some of the questions can be dehumanising. Interviewers are rarely created equal. Some have egos and get a power kick out of interviewing - I've felt it - while others can be incredibly kind and generous with their questions and their perspectives. Stick in there for the good ones (the ones that make the process comfortable) they are out there - and when they extend offers, they make great bosses.

@@rajsidhu appreciate the kind words and I agree. ❤️

This definitely works too @ibraheemsaleem2161!

Great question. The principles are exactly the same @mazdar100. The temptation with 25+ years experience is to include everything, but this would be a mistake. Be very selective and focus your achievements in those 25 years through the specific skills/attributes you're being asked for. The interview is where the full richness of those 25 years comes out :-) Raj

@@rajsidhu thank you, good sir.

@@rajsidhu Well, I tried. And there is just no way I can get my CV down to under a full three pages. Even when being selective. I'll give it another pass then likely need to admit defeat..

@@mazdar100 You've been working on it and so you will automatically have made optimisations to that crucial first page - which usually makes or breaks a CV. If there's nothing on the 2nd or 3rd page that the recruiter really NEEDS to see, you've still done a fine job if you leave it at 3 pages. There's no defeat here my friend. Good luck and please know I'm cheering you on. Raj :-)

Thank YOU @mazdar100!!

Ha! Yessss! Thanks for being my 1,000th subscriber, Hassan :-) Raj

It's a pleasure, Antonio! Raj :-)

Thank you! I do my best :-)

Salman this is such a kind comment, thank you! Raj :-)

This comment made my day, Gabriel, thank you! Raj :-)

I love this! Good luck for tomorrow - I'll be cheering you on! Raj

Glad it was helpful! @YuganGovender Thank you. Raj :-)

Thank you @MrBlarivie, I'd love to hear how it goes and good luck with your upcoming interviews :-)

@@rajsidhu I was successful with your CV tips. I am still waiting on interview feedback. My gut feel tells me it went well 🙂

I will keep my fingers crossed @MrBlarivie :-)

Thank you @MrBlarivie, this is most kind! Plus I really like "What does a great employee for this role look like".... it enourages them to make that positive association with you as a candidate. Nice! Raj :-)

This has made my day, thank you so much for letting me know Sophie! :-)

...and I've earnt a comment too :-) Thanks!!

I appreciate the comment :-) Raj

I appreciate that :-) Raj