Company: Charterhouse Partnership

Guest Comment: why bother with a recruiter?

On the surface, with the current low volume of job vacancies in Asia and high number of candidates immediately available, the importance of recruitment consultancies could be called into question from both a job-seeker and employer perspective. However, the value of recruiters should not be underestimated in toady’s employment market. Specialised consultants still retain their [...]

Do Asia’s local banks need expats to save them?

As Asia booms, local banks are becoming increasingly reliant on overseas talent. Wang Dongming, chairman of Citic Securities, China’s largest securities firm by market capitalisation, recently told the Financial Times he wanted to avoid what he saw as the missed opportunities of the big Japanese securities firms. According to Wang, Japanese banks failed in part [...]

Singapore embracing junior private bankers

As Asia’s legions of high net worth individuals multiply, demand for junior private bankers is increasing exponentially in Singapore. It’s good news if you want to move into the sector. “Private banking is not hard to get into at a junior level,” says Nicholas Hughes, principal banking consultant at Charterhouse Partnership in Singapore. How do [...]