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Article: A change of pace: Tahinde Frederick gets a lifestyle upgrade in Bermuda.
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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TAHINDE FREDERICK WAS NETWORKING AT A BUSINESS conference in Bermuda in 2006 when she decided to test career prospects there. An assistant vice president at an insurer in New York, she sent her resume out just to "see what would happen."
"Within one month I had an offer after interviewing with three companies," recalls Frederick, originally from Washington. Today, as a senior risk analyst for Montpelier Reinsurance, Frederick admits that demand for talent definitely worked in her favor and is still a challenge for the island.
A self-governing territory of the United Kingdom, Bermuda's economy is primarily based on ...