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Six financial services qualifications which could substantially improve your employability
If you’re looking for a job in financial services and can’t get one, or if you’ve got a job in financial services and you want a new one, you may need to increase your allure with a CV upgrade. We suggest the qualifications below. If you disagree or know of others, please add your suggestions [...]
REVIEW MY CV: How should I go about switching from the City to the Gulf?
Another eFinancialCareers reader has bravely put forward their CV for some (constructive) criticism in a bid to enhance their job-hunting potential. Below is their profile (with all personal details removed) and little about their search for new employment so far. Can you offer some tips about where they may have been going wrong and what, [...]
Five roles facing a skills shortage in the City
Should you be considering a move to the City of London any time soon, it’s worth noting that the jobs market appears to have come full circle from this time last year and a skills shortage is looming. Certainly, that’s the suggestion of recruiters Astbury Marsden, which has concluded that the number of skilled candidates [...]
New breed of sophisticated risk manager required within UAE banks
An appetite for more sophisticated risk management tools from Middle Eastern banks is driving them to poach the more experienced talent from within Western and Far East rivals. A recent study by the British University in Dubai argued that UAE banks needed to be using a more diverse range of risk management tools and practices [...]
REVIEW MY CV: I moved to the Middle East for love and cannot find an investment banking role
An eFinancialCareers reader has bravely put forward their CV for some constructive criticism in a bid to enhance their job-hunting potential. Below is their profile (with all personal details removed) and little about their search for new employment so far. Can you offer some tips about where they may have been going wrong and what, [...]
Where are the best paid risk jobs in the GCC?
By its own admission, the Middle East risk management survey by recruiters GRS is meant as a rough guide rather than an absolute authority, but it seems there are massive discrepancies between the levels of pay you can bring in at different organisations. As the table below shows, the minimum salary for a head of [...]
UAE banks throw spotlight on risk managers
UAE firms are taking pre-emptive measures to ensure that the carnage in the Western banking world doesn’t happen here: they’re bolstering their risk management teams. Local banks are battling with the twin forces of regulatory reporting requirements – such as Basel II – and the need to set up controls against banking crises and rogue [...]
Basel boost for Dubai risk managers
Gulf countries are on the hunt for risk managers as the deadline for implementation of the Basel II accord looms. The UAE Central Bank has announced phased implementation of the Basel II accord, with banks expected to be compliant with at least the standardised approach for credit risk by 31 December 2007. In the second [...]
Junior corporate financier? Dubai banks want you
Are you a junior corporate financier with a few years’ experience under your belt? You could be just what Gulf banks are looking for. “Demand is very high in corporate finance for people who have two to three years’ experience,” says Samar El Gazar, MD of Dubai-based recruitment firm Leaders Solutions. “Local as well as [...]
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