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Why it’s so important to talk to recruiters face to face; and how to go about setting up a meeting
You send your CV to a recruiter, you wait, you don’t hear back, or you only get a brief phone call or email. But what you really want is the chance to talk in detail about your career with a real-life person, perhaps over a nice coffee. Here’s our guide to making your candidacy stand [...]
Five tips to help you clinch a job before Christmas
Job hunting in this market takes a little extra effort. Here’s how to stand out. 1) Get networking By being well-networked, you’ll not only be able to tap into the ‘hidden’ job market; you’ll also be giving yourself a real advantage over other candidates, says Andrew Hanson, director, financial services, Robert Walters. “Your network should [...]
Experienced Eye: Company mission statements are meaningless in the cold, hard reality of recruitment
Welcome to the second article from our new candidate blogger “Experienced Eye”. He’s, well, very experienced in the banking sector and is currently job hunting. Click here to read his first blog. And click here if you’d like to write (anonymously) about your own career on our site. Should noble ideas be limiting growth? It’s [...]
Six ways to work well with recruiters
1) More is not better Contact a minimum of three and an absolute maximum of six recruiters – any more and you risk losing control of your job search, with different recruiters sending out your CV for the same vacancy. That’s something banks really hate. 2) Get specialist The recruiters you deal with should specialise [...]
CV Sins: Seven mistakes that finance techies make
In the first of our CV Sins series, we focus on finance technology and reveal some of the most common resume blunders made by IT professionals. We’ll put other job functions under the microscope in the weeks to come. 1) Avoid being an IT generalist Georgina Parker, associate director, Nicoll Curtin Technology, sees many CVs [...]
Career CPR: I’m an Asian i-banker and Australian permanent resident but I just can’t get a job here. Help!
Review this candidate’s problem and provide some solutions in the comments box below. His dilemma “I am an Asian investment banker with 10 years’ experience in Malaysia and an Australian university degree. I became an Australian permanent resident last year but haven’t got any interviews with investment banks or boutique advisory firms. Headhunters tell me [...]
Straight Talk: A senior UBS banker explains how to ace interviews and avoid failure during your first days on the job
Lutfey Siddiqi CFA, head of FICC corporate coverage & FX distribution Asia-Pacific gives some sage advice to young bankers. It can be disconcerting for fresh graduates to shift from the heights of academia to the bottom rung of a bank. Apart from a reversal in status, many find the unarticulated rules of the game -expectations [...]
Career CPR: I’ve had two great job offers in trading but I can’t decide which one to take
Review this candidate’s dilemma and resume, then let us know which is the best of the two roles. “I’ve received verbal offers for two trading roles in commercial banks which have significantly different prospects. I need advice on which one to pick because I am likely to be stuck in the product line for a [...]
Candidate Confidential: If unemployed bankers don’t maintain their mental health they might never get back into banking
Welcome to the first opinion piece from our new blogger, who writes under the title “Candidate Confidential”. Mental health in general is normally treated as taboo in Australian society, despite sportspeople speaking out about it and the ongoing national initiative, beyondblue. But what if you are currently unemployed in the macho world of banking? What [...]
Bank to recruiter: We dislike you so much, we’re putting up a firewall to block your emails
A bit of bad blood between agencies and HR is nothing new, but tensions are now intensifying as financial institutions do more of their own hiring. HR professionals at the recent eFinancialCareers roundtable in Melbourne said competition for placement income means recruiters are increasingly “floating” resumes directly to line managers and bypassing HR. In some [...]
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