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A View From the Street: Career Insights with Finance Recruiting Expert Bill Vlaad
55 minutes Posted Sep 19, 2023 at 12:00 pm.
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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.