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New survey finds the fixed income sector is the best place to be for bonuses this year
New projections call for moderate 2012 bonus increases across all financial services sectors, with fixed income showing some of the largest potential incentive-pay gains—as much as 25 percent in some cases. Compensation consultant Alan Johnson of Johnson Associates says incentives are still well below the highs of 2007. Moreover, he says that “things started to [...]
Top recruiter says hiring is picking up in financial services, selectively
Boyden Global Executive Search released its quarterly outlook today saying there has been an increase in selective hiring within financial services during the second quarter following a sluggish start in the beginning of the year. The Boyden Executive Outlook also said c-level executives with both great technical ability and proven track records in leadership are [...]
Some Strategic Advice to Help Wealth Managers Grow Their Business
One thing wealth managers can never get enough of is help on growing their business, primarily because they are often paid based on the amount of assets they bring in that can generate fees. The latest advice comes from Pershing, which is a Bank of New York Mellon company, and it focuses on how financial [...]
Short Breaks Only Improve Productivity if You Stay Focused on Work, New Research Shows
True or false: One way to improve your stamina on the job is to take short breaks like going for a walk, grabbing some coffee or planning your evening. If you said true, you’d be wrong according to new research. In fact, unless you use a quick break to assist a junior associate or learn [...]
Hiring at Mid-Level Banks Picks Up in Canada—Where Banks Remain Among the Strongest
North of the U.S. border, bank hiring is beginning to pick up at the mid-market level and morale is getting stronger among job candidates as the employment situation improves. The improving landscape comes at a time when Canadian banks are still seen as among the world’s strongest. CIBC was No. 3 in Bloomberg Markets’ second [...]
How to Handle Multiple Job Offers
Here’s a great problem to have, especially these days – more than one job offer. As great as this sounds, it’s important to handle the negotiations carefully, and they can be a tightrope walk. The position you take needs to be determined by more than money. Consider the tenor of the interview and subsequent phone conversations [...]
10 tips for getting hired when nobody seems to be hiring
For anyone who has been searching for a financial job for more than a few weeks, the dreary and continued drain on time, effort, energy and spirit make it sometimes difficult to stay with it. You begin to wonder if you’ll ever get a job. Is anyone even hiring? To break the spell, there are [...]
April Turned Out to Be a Good Month For Financial Hiring in Canada
If the financial job market seems too challenging in the States, you may want to consider Canada. Year over year from April 2011 to April 2012, financial firms in Canada reduced employment by 10,900 workers, but the latest up tick makes up for most of that, according to recent statistics. Canadian employers were hiring aggressively [...]
How to get over your lack of experience and land your first job
While hiring has perked up over the past year, it’s still the old Catch-22 for the business grad: can’t get a job without experience, can’t get experience without a job. “As more companies invest in summer internship programs then leverage those interns for full-time positions, it leaves fewer entry-level opportunities for recent college job seekers,” [...]
Profiting from Performance Review
Formalized performance reviews are quite common in financial services. Whether you are working at a large bank, investment bank or private equity firm, the feedback that comes during the performance review process can be critical to your career success at your current employer and beyond, says Teresa Bur, vice president of human resources at CBIZ, [...]
