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THE VETERAN: Facing up to Face Time
One of my favourite quotes is film director Woody Allen’s line, “80% of success is showing up.” But once you show up, how long do you need to stick around when it comes to your workplace? The perennial question of “face time” (i.e., extra time spent at work beyond normal working hours, especially to impress [...]
GUEST COMMENT: You’re better off approaching your goals in a roundabout fashion
Where do you want to be in 10 years’ time? Do you want to be a managing director at a ‘top tier’ bank, bringing home million dollar bonuses? If so, making this your explicit aim may not be the best way of achieving it. For many of the most successful business leaders, the explicit aim [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Investment banking vs management consulting (take II)
I love investment banking, and was a banker in a previous life, so I’m not about to embark on a spree of banker-bashing. I enjoyed and relished every moment of investment banking (I’m not being sarcastic here): the long hours, the tight deadlines, the arrogance, the shallowness, and even the odd maniac director (who obviously [...]
Private banking, asset management and risk shine in Q1
Asset managers, private bankers and compliance and risk specialists can all look forward to being in demand this year, if the latest clutch of first quarter results of the big Nordic banks are anything to go by. Q1 results for January to March have been just released by Nordea, Swedbank, SEB and Handelsbanken and show [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The not inconsiderable pleasures of schadenfreude
As Goldman Sachs’ ordeal clearly illustrates, hubris can lead to horrible grovelling. Remember this: financial services is a cyclical industry. Things change fast. You may be popular now, but that won’t always be so. As a junior in an M&A team, I saw a stream of my peers move to roles in private equity and [...]
Curling actuaries, particle physicists and other unconventional routes into financial services jobs
Nordic financial services may be a relatively close-knit community, but that’s not to say it only attracts accountants or those with a pure finance background. Bond manager Pimco has appointed former particle physicist Mikael Angberg as its head of new business for the Nordic countries. Angberg began his career studying black holes at CERN, the [...]
Six situations in which doing a CFA could do you a disservice
A CFA can only be good for your career – right? After all, it’s not easy: only 20% of people make it through all three levels, and as few as 34% of people pass the CFA Level 1. However, even though a CFA is often a good career move, in some situations it simply isn’t. [...]
Oslo is fast-becoming the place to be for Nordic equities professionals
With DnB Nor expanding its Nordic equity sales and research teams and opportunities still scarce in Sweden, Oslo is rapidly becoming an attractive destination for capital markets professionals. DnB Nor last month unveiled a significant expansion of its equity research and sales teams, recruiting for a range of capital markets jobs based in both Oslo [...]
When to use recruiters, and when to apply direct
If you’re trying to find a new job, the best strategy may appear to be one of numerical inundation: send your CV to every conceivable place that could possibly hire you, sit back, and wait. Unfortunately, this may not work. Although, logically, your chances of getting a response should increase the more CVs you send, [...]
Nordic FX professionals are in short supply
Deutsche Bank is creating a satellite FX sales team in Stockholm dedicated to the Nordic region but, while international banks are increasingly eyeing up the Nordic FX market, a desperate shortage of local talent, plus residual post-recessionary caution could yet hamper further expansion in this area. Deutsche’s team will cater to institutional, sovereign, public sector, [...]
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