Quantitative Research

A Michael Page City Publication

Authors: Matthew Jones

             Tom Mardon

             Andrew Cook



Introduction: This guide is focussed on careers within Quantitative
Research. It seeks to explain in general terms the main businesses of
the City, the career paths Quantitative Researchers can take and what
their jobs actually entail. The main function of the guide is to enable
successful application to a first role. Therefore there are
descriptions of typical quantitative backgrounds, advice on interview
processes, tests, CV preparation and example CV’s, market overviews

and Day in the Life examples of likely work. The authors of this guide
have between them twelve years recruitmentexperience within the City
and over that time have seen the development of Quantitative Research
as a necessary andvalue-adding resource to the functioning of the
Banking & Finance Sector. Hopefully this guide will add some
clarity to the rhetoric.