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Citadel Securities: Challengers Wanted

Citadel Securities is one of the largest market makers in the world. One of the things that makes Citadel so successful is that they encourage their traders, quantitative researchers, and technologists to collaborate on strategies rather than just passively wait for strategies to be dictated from the top down. 

Applying to a firm like Citadel is the obvious choice for students already majoring in finance, but Citadel very wisely chose to cast a broader net as well. By recruiting students from finance adjacent majors who might not have been considering careers in finance at all, they could bring a lot of fresh perspectives into the mix. A broad perspective is a distinct competitive advantage for quants.

The task was to create a recruiting video, website content, and a social campaign that would convince non-finance majors to consider careers at Citadel. But what could we say to these people? Surely if they were interested in finance, they would have majored in it, right?

I found the answer by interviewing 5 of their recently hired quants and looking for what else they had in common–and that turned out to be their mindset.

 

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