Anybody familiar with ‘legal analysts’? I got a good friend trying to go for this, but I’m advising against it because I don’t see how they’re different from bank paralegals. Any AFers with experience/ insight?
Jeez, everyone is an analyst these days. A friend of mine went in for an interview for a title “Real Estate Analyst” when in fact it was paper processing in the loan department of a bank. I can’t wait for the day when my garbage man hands me a card saying, “Jose Ramilia, Certified Sanitation Analyst.”
isn’t “analyst” a position which take “garbage” from boss & all the no-name works? In that proposition, somehow the “Certified Santitation Analyst” seems to match the actual work of nowadays analysts, whether it’s investment analyst/ commercial analyst/ financial analyst/ or even accounting analyst @_@
Analyst is a generally accepted title for any entry level person who has not been promoted to Associate.
Analyst < Associate < VP…
From my time at one of the big banks, whenever I heard someone was an Analyst, I immediately assumed they were just some lower than whale-shit newb… not someone who actually did analysis.
Thats one of my favorites. Like dude, you’re still a effing accountant. I have to remember to bite my tongue around my friends that are actually accountants.
Except Equity Analysts! Those are typically VP/Director/MD
Otherwise yeah
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So MBA>CSA >CFA ?
I seem to recall that on the sell side, Analysts work for Associates, but on the buy side Associates work for Analysts, who in turn work for PMs, except in quant shops, where the PMs work for Analysts (in some quant shops, the PM is really just an execution trader for the researcher who designs the process, whereas in fundamental shops, the PM pulls the trigger on investment ideas).