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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Not true, especially if you consider gross salary (with the tax allowance.) It is possible to gross that as an a13 or a14 non-division chief. Still need decent work experience for these grades, though.[/quote]

IMF totally overpays on a net and gross basis. All they care about is Total Numbers of Years Working. Not quality of degree or work experience, if not an economist. "Mainstream" people not PhD Econs are always bopping around trying to find a pay band that moves up. [/quote]

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