It is my firmly held belief that every person working in a firm, and specially in a financial institution and very very specifically in an investment bank is both a salesman and a project manager, besides whatever else your job is. It is your job to sell the products, the bank for potential recruits, the industry, anything. You have to be a salesman.
Besides this, you have to be a project manager. In every employee's job, change is an integral process. Whether you are writing a document, or preparing a pitch or launching a new product, or upgrading a system or checking a failed transaction or what have you, you need to manage a project.
So after your basic technical skills on financial products, IT, operations, or what have you, you should also develop your selling/presentation skills as well as project managemet skills. But here's an interesting note on 10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a project manager.
They are
#1: You are a poor communicator
#2: You don’t work well with people
#3: You prefer the details
#4: You don’t like to manage people
#5: You don’t like to follow processes
#6: You don’t like to document things
#7: You like to execute and not plan
#8: You prefer to be an order taker
#9: You are not organized
#10: You think project management is “overhead”
As you will see, none of this is anything specialised. Given that change is an integral part of your job, what do you want to be? a person who manages change? or a person who is managed by change?
All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!
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