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The misguided job search tactics of the alpha male
Being an alpha male can be a good thing. Alpha males are confident, natural leaders. They’re usually intelligent. They’re analytical and they’re doers. Lloyds is so keen to turn its employees into alpha males, it’s reportedly sent them on a course titled, ‘Hunter-Gatherers in the Corporate Jungle,’ where they’ve been equipped with alpha male traits. [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Advice for JP Morgan Scapegoats
First the good news: being fired from JP Morgan is far better than being fired from a less admired bank like Deutsche and if you’re one of the scapegoats for the $2 billion clusterfuss, I hope that places the advice I’m giving in the right context. Nietzsche is your friend This hasn’t destroyed you. If [...]
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 [...]
7 facts that you’ll need to assimilate if you’re going to get a job in banking now
In the event that you’re seeking a gloom-laden metaphor to describe the current state of the banking industry, Bloomberg news has the answer. It’s spoken to Kevin Conn, an analyst at Massachusetts Financial Services Co, who says banking is in a situation similar to the setting of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction story The Long Rain, [...]
Resilience: the new super-differentiator for financial services careers
Difficult times call for a different set of skills. With very good and even exceptional people finding it difficult to find new jobs or get back into the market, it’s no longer simply about being exemplary at what you do (although this is also important): it’s about having the will to keep on doing it [...]
How you can tell if a recruiter’s jobs are real
There aren’t as many jobs around as there were. Even recruiters say so. At the last count, Morgan McKinley said London financial services jobs were down 57% year-on-year in March 2012; Astbury Marsden thought they fell 11% month-on-month. But recruiters and headhunters have to do something. Many are still out there, soliciting candidates, making calls. [...]
GUEST COMMENT: A job specification based on the ideal brain for a person working in investment banking
The following hypothetical person spec is based on research from neuroscience about decision-making, attention, memory and learning – all being key components of performance. A committed single-tasker who is able to focus his/her brain on only one task at a time, being aware that divided attention impacts quality of work through dual-task interference which reduces [...]
GUEST COMMENT: There will be politics when you join a bank as a graduate or intern. This is how to work it
“Thanks for dropping in.” So the communal dogsbody (a rival intern) declares loudly as you leave while your VP is in earshot. It’s 11pm. Only 4 other people in the M&A team are still in the office and it’s your second week. You are ready to die from mind-numbing sleep deprivation. Unlike your competition, who [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Things to do as soon as you find you’ve been laid off
If you’ve found yourself part of the recent round of City layoffs, or suspect you’re about to be made redundant, take heart. Although the initial shock can be difficult to deal with, it’s not that bad. From personal experience, life moves on and other opportunities exist, even in the middle of what seems to be [...]
Q&A: An anonymous Russian trader at Deutsche Bank in London explains how to build a trading career
eFinancialCareers continues its series of interviews with Russians who have moved to work abroad. This week, we’ve spoken to a senior trader in Deutsche Bank’s London office who has asked to remain anonymous. Why and when did you leave Russia? I left at sixteen with my parents, scientists, who went to Switzerland in the early [...]
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