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How to ensure your CV is read by the robots
Recruiters report that due to the overwhelming supply of talent today, desperate job seekers are flooding every position—but that 50% or more of applicants are unqualified for the position to which they are applying. To save companies time and money, the hiring process has been almost entirely automated. Most large firms will now use software [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to send out three hundred job applications for an equity trading job, and still get nowhere
I have a friend who was a junior equities trader. He joined the bank straight out of university, worked there for a few years and was made redundant. Four months into his redundancy, we spoke and he mentioned to me that he’d submitted more than 300 job applications. I didn’t totally believe this and asked [...]
GUEST COMMENT: What happens when your investment banking CV sends the wrong message
Mixed messages in CVs usually derive from the writer’s own mind set and that rule applies to investment bankers, fund managers, private bankers, traders of any age or nationality. From my City experience I find there are usually two mind sets which create mixed messages: Superhero and scarecrow. What are these and how can they be [...]
Do you genuinely want to get a new job? Try this, this and this
If you, like our guest columnist last week, have been sending out applications and CVs and getting no response, you may be feeling annoyed. Worse: you may be feeling apathetic. Don’t. And don’t be. As John Lees, career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You’ll Love, explains in this particular Harvard Business [...]
GUEST COMMENT: This is what you’ll need for the perfect private equity CV
What should you have on your CV if you want a job in private equity? An equally valid question is what should you not have on your CV if you want a job in private equity? And that answer is too much detail: it’s not your autobiography; keep it simple, brief and relevant. You need [...]
Things to bear in mind if you happen to be updating your CV over Christmas
It’s nearly Christmas. Needless to say, you may be thinking of using this valuable family time to update your CV. In the event that you are, we’ve asked some CV writing professionals to provide a few very quick tips to prevent any terrible mistakes. This is what they suggest: 1. Don’t be a perfectionist “You’re [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Why you should send your CV to me, an external recruiter, instead of to banks’ own recruiters in-house
Recently, a candidate asked me if I feared competition from in-house recruiters. Although it was tempting to make all the standard jibes about in-house recruiters being agents who didn’t make it in a proper recruitment firm like mine, I decided it was better to demonstrate to the candidate precisely how their banks despise their in-house recruiters [...]
Techniques for turning on employers when you are massively overqualified
There’s a growing possibility that a lot of very talented, very highly qualified financial services professionals might be looking for jobs in the next 6 months. What should you do if you are among them? 1) Make it absolutely clear that you really want the job If you are applying for a job you could [...]
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 [...]
How to tailor your CV for financial services jobs in Sweden
The Swedish job market is changing. As globally mobile Swedes migrate back to Stockholm, the pool of candidates has become much more internationally-focused than it used to be. “A lot of Swedish people have worked in London for a few years, getting skills from JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley…..and then want to return to Sweden”, says [...]
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