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Inés de Trémiolles :
New hiring opportunities
Global head of trading at BNP Paribas Asset Management , Inés de Trémiolles , tells the TRADETech Daily how the shifting market landscape is impacting her desk and makes her predictions for the year to come . curve is a lot steeper when you ' re physically present . There are a lot of projects involved in a trading mission which require from time to time a quieter environment to think or write . These type of tasks are better done from home . Sometimes it is easier to extract yourself and be very productive for a couple of hours on something that would have been impossible being in the office .
How do you think you can build an inclusive and cultural environment using the hybrid working model ? We ' ve been working remote and hybrid for almost two years now . We gave traders the ability to work from home by equipping them with all the necessary technology but we also need to have a presence on site just in case we have a VPN problem etc . What we do is really dependent on the team . It ' s not the same for a team of eight people than it is for a team of three people . The trading desk in Paris is where we have the largest contingency and some teams are very large so it ’ s difficult for them all to be in the office on the same day but we try to do that every once in a while . Microsoft Teams has been a great tool .
We try to have everybody together in the office once in a while and then have regular virtual meetings with people using their cameras . We have also tried to do some informal events . It ’ s just very simple drinks but it ' s something that we wouldn ' t be able to do during the pandemic . Every desk has interns that work on a rotational basis . The
28 THETRADETECH DAILY juniors are on the desk all the time because that ' s the only way that they can learn . They ' re eager to do this . They ' re equipped to work at home if they ' re required to but it ' s much better for younger people to see and to feel how other people - more trained senior staff - are trading in order to learn the ropes and understand the products . The learning
“ The challenge is that interviewing on Teams is not the same as sitting next to somebody and physically seeing their reactions .”
Has the hybrid working model posed any challenges around recruitment ? How has it impacted the recruitment process ? It has opened the opportunities to look for talent outside of people who are physically based in Paris . The flexibility that we give to traders to work from home has expanded the talent pool . The challenge is that interviewing on Teams is not the same as sitting next to somebody and physically seeing their reactions . You use different body language when sitting face-to-face . I try as much as I can to interview anybody physically that we are onboarding . We haven ' t been able to do that 100 % of the time and it ' s something that I dearly missed when we were at the height of the pandemic .
We need people who speak French . We ' re an international organisation but if you don ' t speak French , you can ’ t really do your job properly . There were a lot of French people living abroad and some of them have come back to France because of the pandemic . It has actually opened up a lot of opportunities for us .