Hello! Welcome to QuantCareer.com!

Before you read anything else on this website, please visit my Quant Career Guide blog, at http://quantcareer.spaces.live.com. I update the Quant Career Guide blog every day. The blog features both interesting tips and daily sample quant questions. I'm sure you'll love these blog features. So be sure to add my Quant Career Guide blog to your Favorites.

Interested in becoming a "quant"? Want to start a rewarding and lucrative career in quantitative finance? Eager to get started on the process with some practical help?

QuantCareer.com is the web companion to my book, Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career, published in June 2007 by Outskirts Press and retailing at $16.95.

This is the first book of its kind that helps the reader navigate the entire process of looking for and getting a quant finance job, on Wall Street and elsewhere. (The term "Wall Street" is used in a generic way to refer to investment finance in general.) From writing an effective resume to knowing where the jobs are to acing the job interviews, the book is packed with advice gems and helpful tips. As the subtitle says, my book does not BS, but instead gives you practical guidelines on what to do in order to maximize your chances of landing a quant job.

Whether you are a graduate student in a quantitative discipline, or a practicing mathematician, statistician, computer scientist, physicist, chemist, engineer, etc., if you are interested in learning how to break into the quant financne field, my book can help you.

For the book's table of contents, FAQ (frequently asked questions) and erratum (mistakes caught after it went to press), please visit the book's product page at Amazon.com, where I've added lots of information about the book.

How to Buy "Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant" Book

You can purchase my book on either Amazon.com or BN.com (Barnes & Noble's website). It's also carried on many other online book retailer websites.

Tip: Want to get a free copy of my book? Here's how: get the Barnes & Noble Mastercard, and you'll receive a free $25 B&N gift card. Then just use that $25 gift card to buy my book on BN.com. It's that easy! :-)

How to Use This Site

The purpose of this site is not to duplicate the contents of my excellent book; instead, it's to supplement the materials in the book, giving you additional information and guidance on finding a quant job and starting a career as a quantitative finance professional.

Tip: Use the nagivation links at the top of this page (beneath the arms-crossing, stock-photo guy -- BTW, that's not Brett!) to poke around this site.

The Quant Career Guide Blog

Because it's time-consuming to update this website (my host, 1&1, provides some really stupid web-building software that's a nightmare to use), I keep a separate blog, called Quant Career Guide, which I update every day with useful contents, such as additional hints and tips as well as daily postings of sample quantitative questions. Be sure to check it out and bookmark my blog!