michiexile | I'm getting headhunted

Today from my mailbox!

Mikael,

My name is [NAME REDACTED] and I own a small recruiting agency called [COMPANY REDACTED]. I came across your information on the Stanford Mathematics site and wanted to touch base to see if, by chance, you might currently be interested in hearing about Quantitative/Mathematical Research and Software Development positions with a client of mine in NYC (and with another office in Silicon Valley) which is a highly innovative organization which runs a premier hedge fund. Based upon your background, I am fairly certain that you’d be familiar with this organization. I don’t know if I happened to have caught you at a time when you might have an interest in hearing more, but let me know… your background seems like a very nice potential match.

Thanks for your time,

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I responded, asking why on EARTH he thought I'd be a good match for the financial mathematics industry. It turns out he'd looked over my Stanford webpage, and spotted my interests in computation and in Haskell, and then checked out my blog and noticed my tendency to jump between subjects.

I pointed him to the early blog posts in which I detail my devotion and dedication to an academic career, at which point he signed off the conversation politely.

But it sure is ... flattering that I have ended up being headhunting material!