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GUEST COMMENT: Guerrilla job search tactics for the frankly desperate
Personally, I am happily employed. I have no need of hunting down a new position. However, I know I’m lucky: I know former colleagues who’ve been looking for work since 2008. I suspect that some of them just haven’t adjusted to the newly shrunk financial sector and are still “living the dream” Credit Boom style. [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Imperatives for interviews with investment banks
Moving firms, or threatening to do, so is by far the easiest way to receive a major hike in your compensation. Hence, smart interview strategy is a very important means of maximizing your earnings potential. Based on personal experience, personal observation and innate cunning, here’s my advice for playing the interview game in a manner [...]
GUEST COMMENT: What the way you treat your PA says about you
You may not have your own personal PA, but you probably aspire to. For to have a PA is a mark of power. Even in this era of political correctness, most PAs are still women. Most PA-possesors are still men. Managing this relationship is fraught with potential pitfalls. Long experience in the City suggests there [...]
GUEST COMMENT: 10 legitimate methods of inflating your bonus
Overall, this year’s bonuses will probably be significantly down on 2009. Peter Stringfellow may be holding his permed head in despair, but that doesn’t mean that you have to too. If you can get real and begin to consider your so-called colleagues as mere competitors for the diminished bonus pool (as they are surely viewing [...]
GUEST COMMENT: What I hate about working in the middle office
I am working in the middle office and I do not like it here. This is why I want to get out. 1) It’s boring On the whole the middle office is a mind numbing and even belittling place to be. Every day is almost identical; the only difference is which system screws up. 2) [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Institutional investors are lazy, private equity investors really aren’t
I work in private equity, and I’m fed up with whingers and their half-baked comparisons of the returns we offer to those of listed stocks and index tracker funds. Their criticisms show up their own lack of insight into the buyout sector (forgivable) and basic knowledge of investing and portfolio allocation (unforgivable). The idea that [...]
GUEST COMMENT: What I wished I knew when I started as an analyst in an investment bank
Starting as a graduate in any IB is one of the most exciting yet daunting times of a young person’s life. It’s blo*dy hard work BUT can also be a lot of fun. If you want to play it right, may I strongly suggest that you: 1) DON’T SIT TOO COMFORTABLY You still have a [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Face it kid, you’re not good enough to get into PE
Yes, it is still possible to get hired into private equity with no previous buyside experience (I know, I did it not so long ago myself). Rumours of more sellside cuts make this sound pretty tempting, if you can see past the buyside cynics. However, getting a job in PE is by no means a [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Long term career management in a short term world.
Senior corporate financiers who’ve been around the block a few times can get a little misty eyed when talking about the business in Europe in the early 90s. Less competition, opportunities everywhere you looked and client relationships built on trust and quality of advice rather the commoditised, product pushing environment of today. Since then, an [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Please don’t tell me your boss is a Jerk
If you’re leaving your job, it’s likely to be because you’ve stopped enjoying the work, or that your job doesn’t offer you the future opportunities you want. Money may be a factor and as a headhunter I don’t have a problem hearing this. Money has many problems but at least it’s relatively simple as a [...]
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