How to Find a Job in the Islamic Finance Industry: 5 Tips from Insiders

Islamic finance has a phenomenal identity. What is today a US$ 2.2 trillion industry had started off in 1970s as a humble effort to meet the banking needs of faith-conscious Muslims, primarily based on avoidance of interest and other non-halal transactions.

Even though there are 1,407 Islamic financial institutions globally, the industry is notorious for not providing many job opportunities to new graduates. The primary reason is that despite all the buzz it receives the sector is still really small compared to conventional finance and faces a massive challenge to scale up, given that less than 1% of the global financial assets worldwide are actually Sharia-compliant.

So how does one b...