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  1. FAECTOR Consultancy Project 2023

    • Anissa El Mazouzi
    Sep 14, 2023Educational

    Every year, the FAECTOR Consultancy Project unfolds, offering students a unique opportunity to harness their econometric expertise in the realm of pra...

  2. Cracking the Code: A Guide to Landing a Job at Bain & Company

    • Gabriela Creţu
    • Orestis Tziapouras
    Sep 06, 2023Career

    Who hasn’t dreamt of working for one of the top consulting firms in the world? Is the way to the top as hard as it seems or is there a key to securin...

  3. Volatility Arbitrage: An Interview with Da Vinci

    • Aaron Stefan Popa
    • Max Hedeman Joosten
    Jul 03, 2022Career

    Estimator has once again travelled to Amsterdam to interview a graduated Econometrician who is currently working part-time as a Trading Assistant at D...

  4. Journey of Discovering Your Interests: An Interview with Alumni Alexander Gruisen

    • Giedre Krotovaite
    • Lala AlAsadi
    May 25, 2022Career

    Admit it or not, but surely every single one of econometrics students has at least once experienced an existential study crisis of trying to realise w...

  5. Takeaways of The ECD

    • Arnau Duatis Tarradellas
    • André de Mots
    • Floris De Vries
    • Max Hedeman Joosten
    Nov 29, 2021Career

    At the start of November, the Econometric Career Days took place organised by FAECTOR. Some of our writers participated in it. In this article you wil...

  6. Socially Distanced Trading at Optiver

    • Sterre Spaanderman
    • Aaron Stefan Popa
    Mar 26, 2021Career

    Ever wanted to work at Optiver? One of the most sought-after destinations for our graduates, Optiver trainee Olle Tielrooij explains why Optiver is su...

  7. From Econometrics to CEO for One Month

    • Myrthe van den Reek
    Feb 16, 2021Career

    From Econometrics to CEO for One Month - The Estimator invited Myrthe van den Reek, an Econometrics master student who became CEO for One Month of one...

  8. Wander van der Ven | Risk Trainee at ING

    • Athaya Putri
    Jul 30, 2020Career

    This article has been reposted from traineeships stories from ING Careers. Wander van de Ven is risk trainee at ING since 1 April 2019. "Data scien...

  9. Into the Business - Optiver

    • Raveena Dharmdasani
    • Athaya Putri
    Feb 20, 2020Career

    For this edition of Into the Business, Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Olivier Smit, a graduated Econometrician who is currently working...

  10. LED 2020 - diary of a participant

    • Laura Zwiers
    Feb 17, 2020Career

    This year, the Dutch Econometricians Day (LED) was organised by a committee of FAECTOR. The event took place on the 6th of February in Nieuwegein, wit...

  11. Into the Business - Milliman

    • Mihaela Ilova
    • Laura Zwiers
    Jan 20, 2020Career

    For this edition of Into the Business, Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Susanne van den Dolder and Wouter Elshof, two graduated econometr...

  12. Econometric Career Days 2019

    • Koen Pethke
    • Sean Goedgeluk
    Dec 06, 2019Career

    The Econometric Career Days ended a few weeks ago and most of us attended some events. There’s a lot of planning that goes into such an elaborate even...

  13. FAECTOR Research Project 2019/2020

    • Laura Zwiers
    • Willemijn Ouwersloot
    • Bart Dubbeldam
    • Jill Langenberg
    Nov 22, 2019Educational

    The FAECTOR Research Project is one of FAECTOR’s biggest educational projects: it enables a group of students to do an internship during the minor per...

  14. Into the Business - Flow Traders

    • Rick Kessels
    • Raveena Dharmdasani
    Sep 11, 2019Career

    For this edition of ‘Into the Business’, Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Laurens Snijer, a graduated econometrician who is currently wor...

  15. Into the Business - ING

    • Noemi Antônia Carolina Savelkoul
    • Fabricius van Roozendaal
    Jul 19, 2019Career

    For this edition of ‘Into the Business,’ Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Xinzheng Huang, member of the market risk model validation team...

  16. Business Trip 2019: Beijing

    • Rick Kessels
    May 10, 2019Career

    During the Spring Break, 20 lucky students got the chance to explore the capital of China: Beijing! The diverse program of this annual Business Trip c...

  17. Into the Business - Lynxx

    • Aron van Woerkom
    Apr 03, 2019Career

    For this edition of ‘Into the Business,’ Estimator travelled to Amersfoort to interview Paul Rooijmans, founder of data company Lynxx and Simon Langbr...

  18. The First ECD

    • Rick Kessels
    Oct 30, 2018Career

    The Econometric Career Days is an annual career-related event, where econometrics students can get an insight into the career opportunities in the fie...

  19. Into the Business - The Belastingdienst

    • Louise ten Harmsen van der Beek
    Sep 27, 2018Career

    For this edition of Into the Business, the Estimator has interviewed Maarten (29) and Anneke (28) who both work at the Belastingdienst (the Dutch Tax ...

  20. Into the Business: Aegon

    • Rick Kessels
    May 29, 2018Career

    For this edition of Into the Business, the Estimator interviewed Welmoed Kuperus, a data analytics trainee at Aegon. Read how she ended up at Aegon an...

  21. Into the Business - Databay

    • Olga Olshevets
    Jan 12, 2018Career

    In this edition of Into the Business the Estimator talks to Jelmer Wielema and Shady el-Gewily from Databay. Together they form the Innovation Lab, a ...

  22. Econometric Career Days 2017

    • Estimator
    Nov 01, 2017Career

    The Econometric Career Days (ECD) is the biggest on-campus recruitment event for econometricians in the world! During the ECD, students are connected ...

  23. Into the Business - Deep Blue Capital

    • Estimator
    Oct 17, 2017Career

    Not sure what you can do with your econometric knowledge in practice? Curious where other econometricians end up after their studies? No worries! In t...

  24. Into the Business - Milliman

    • Amber Stoll
    Oct 09, 2017Career

    We met at a client site in The Hague to speak with two Milliman employees, who took some time out of their busy schedules to tell us about themselves ...