Shuting Z.
About me
| Shuting Z. | |
| Economics and Related Studies | |
| Economics and Finance | |
| Undergraduate | |
| Alcuin | |
| 2011 | |
| China |
My employment
| Analyst | |
| Compass Lexecon | |
| United States | |
| Legal services | |
| 2013 |
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A day in the life of a Analyst in the United States
Where I hope to be in 5 years
I'm hoping to acquire more skills and work on a broader spectrum of cases.
My advice to students considering work
I'll give a general advice, since I looked for work in a country foreign to me. First of all, leverage not only your international perspective, but also on every contact, every opportunity, every little thing you have. If you don't have a lot of contacts, build them. Second, start early. The earlier you start out, the more chances you have. Third, do not get too discouraged if you don't find a job as quickly as your friends do. Have faith. Fourth, try to strategize your job hunting. Some safe-bet companies might pressure you into signing your offer, while your dream industry/company might not even have started recruiting yet.
Know what the industry is like before you jump into it. Make sure your technical skills are solid if you are really serious about coming into economic consulting.
My advice about working in my industry
Know what the industry is like before you jump into it. Make sure your technical skills are solid if you are really serious about coming into economic consulting.
What I do
I work for an economic consulting firm. Experts from my company are renowned in both academia and industry. They get retained in high-profile legal cases which you might read on the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times, etc. My role is to provide analytical support to my experts. The responsibilities differ by case. I primarily analyze data, sometimes using programming languages such as SAS and STATA. I also assist with drafting reports and presentations.
Skills I use and how I developed them
Extracurricular skills:
Excel (graduate school trained me well);
Stata (learned at college and grad school; mostly learned from reading programs developed by my colleagues and my counterparts from our opposing sides);
SAS (learned on the job);
Communication (hugely important - developed over the years);
Organization (learned on the job. Since anything you work on would eventually become a team project, you need to manage the structure and work flow, and coordinate with your colleagues.)
What I like most
The people are incredibly smart. In my office we have more PhDs than Master's and Bachelors. The job also allows me to learn about different industries and I actually get to apply the Economic theories I learned from school. The firm culture is very mellow, as well. Everybody treats everybody else with respect, and it fosters growth and learning.
What I like least
Sometimes scheduling vacations can be hard since you cannot predict your own work flow. Sometimes, there is a lot of repetition, data cleaning, etc.
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