Show notes
Check out Kyle’s chat with Bill Vlaad, CEO and Managing Partner of Vlaad & Company, Bay Street’s premier independent executive financial recruitment firm.
In this episode:
- Three characteristics that the most successful financial services professionals share in common.
- Less heralded (but still awesome) career paths in finance.
- Job searching with a rifle vs. a shotgun.
- Campus recruiting and Bill’s path to IBD (which started in a pulp and paper mill!)
- Why a lack of expertise is often misinterpreted as a lack of passion.
- Expert deployment of the metaphor as a literary device.
This episode is absolutely packed with industry insights and professional wisdom for anyone that wants to reflect seriously on their career.

