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Special tricks to ensure that your CV is noticed
Regardless of the debate around the number of people currently pursuing financial services positions, two things are certain: there are thousands of financial services CVs available on CV databases, and any recruiter advertising a job has to trawl through many hundreds of them every single day. This being so, how can you ensure that your [...]
Is this how ‘passionate’ you have to be to work at Goldman Sachs?
In case you’re wondering how keen you have to be to work at Goldman Sachs, Alison Mass, an MD and co-head of financial sponsors at Goldman in the US, is here to elucidate. Mass gave the inaugural speech to new arrivals at NYU Stern this year, and divulged just how much she loves her job. [...]
Continued signs of recovery at SEB and DnB Nor, but hiring still muted
Business volumes at SEB continued to improve in the second quarter of this year, with the bank increasing its credit exposure, private banking and asset management activities, as well as spending more on IT specialists and consultants. Overall, Q2 and half-year figures published today showed the financial woes of the Baltic economies continuing to act [...]
Growth in dollar millionaires boosting Swedish wealth management
The number of dollar millionaires in Sweden is growing faster than almost any other European country, a trend in turn leading to increased demand for private bankers and relationship managers who understand the Nordic market. A report by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini has suggested the number of US dollar millionaires in Sweden grew by [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Six people you will always meet at an off-site
Following our previous article on off-sites , and given that they seem to be on the return and that you are practically certain to be attending one sometime soon, here are six people to look out for: 1. The One Who Doesn’t Want To Be There Usually a relatively senior manager and the one most [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Seven things the new graduates joining banks this summer need to know
I was a newbie in a bank once, so please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m writing this in the context of “things I wish I knew then”… 1) You’re useless One day, with careful nurturing, you might be useful, but until you wise up you are a cost centre. Whatever your job title [...]
Is 35 too old to be using a recruitment firm?
In the same way that Margaret Thatcher (allegedly) said that anyone using a bus aged more than 26 can count him or herself a failure in life, can the same thing be said for anyone aged 35+ who’s obliged to send in their CV for job applications? Some people seem to think so. “If I [...]
GUEST COMMENT: If you think those other interview questions were tough…
Back in the day, JPM derivatives desk was known as being the most aggressive of the bulge banks(it still had the legacy team of Bill Winters tenure at the time). Certainly, for challenging interviews it blew all the other banks I looked at (GS, Deutsche, Merrill, Morgan) out of the water. This was the main [...]
Local knowledge key for ambitious fixed income professionals
There are signs a talent shortage is emerging for experienced Nordic FX and fixed income professionals, with a good knowledge of local or regional markets at a premium. Swedbank last month said it was hiring a new five-strong FX and fixed income team to operate out of Helsinki from September, serving the large corporates and [...]
Why the EU’s new compensation regulations are dreadful, and why they’re tame
If you tell a senior banker that between 40% and 60% of his or her bonus must be deferred over three to five years and that the cash portion will be limited to 20-30%, he or she is unlikely to bat an eyelid. After all, Bank of America reduced the cash component of its bonuses [...]
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