LSE student with BCC A-levels. Three front-office trading offers across a retail brokerage, a European bank and a bulge bracket bank. The ECS paid programme overcame the A-level barrier at the trading desk level.
§ 01
Starting point
- LSE undergraduate
- BCC A-levels (below most trading desk sift thresholds)
- Targeting front-office trading roles
- Quantitative ability required, academic filter against him
§ 02
The problem
BCC A-levels are screened out at most trading desk first sifts.
§ 03
What we did
- Offer-Engineering System applied to trading recruitment specifically
- STAR-3® to demonstrate quantitative and commercial qualities assessed
- PEAL-3™ for the fast-paced interview format
- Commercial Fluency™ for markets knowledge at trader depth
§ 04
Outcome
- Retail brokerage trading offer
- European bank trading offer
- Bulge bracket bank trading offer
- Three front-office trading offers from a BCC profile
§ 05
Why it matters
A-level grades are not the ceiling at trading desks when the system is correctly applied.