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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think a job at the IMF is realistic without either a Phd or serious experience in a Finance Ministry, Central Bank, or similar.

Your project management experience would be much more useful at the Bank, where you could try to get into operations work as a consultant. Set up informational interview there with people from your MA program or any other contacts.[/quote]

What about job at back office like FIN?[/quote]

FIN are mainly accountants. There are also a few economists. Not a large number of non-specialists in back office jobs. Just the usual clerical and security etc. you are better off at the bank, where there are a large number of staff in operations that need project management skills.[/quote]

But IMF FIN is still paying pretty well and has Prestige of IMF, can’t you lateral from there? [/quote]

Yeah, IMF pay is the bomb,  my cousin has a MS in Econ and works in FIN and her salary is $200k [/quote]

And they have easy hours and lots and vacation[/quote]

NP, I'm a MS economist from a top school, but US citizen... do I have a chance or do I really need to be foreign national?[/quote]

I dealt with HR issues in the Fund. Being a US citizen is not a disadvantage, contrary to the misinformation on this thread.
But no back office staff are making $200 k in Fin. Only the deputy division chiefs would make that kind of money, and they typically have a PhD and fifteen or twenty years work experience.[/quote]

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