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The Runaway MBA: I calculate that I need to make 1,000 contacts just to get one good job offer, but I’m not giving up hope
It’s 11am and I have already received three rejection emails. I want to crawl back in bed. But I go for a cup of coffee instead to provide some comfort. Coffee is safer than a cookie. Sleeping in this morning would only waste a few valuable hours in which I can get hold of people [...]
Candidate Blog: I’m a new expat in Singapore and I haven’t got a single interview after a whole month of trying. Is it me or is it the market?
I arrived in Singapore from the UK four weeks ago, excited and eager to start my job search. With a CV filled with excellent experience working as a financial services marketing manager for top banking and insurance firms in London, I stupidly (or rather naively), thought I would have no trouble finding work here. I’d [...]
Blog for eFinancialCareers: Tell us what it’s really like building a career and searching for work in Hong Kong
Never mind what recruiters and HR people think, we want YOU as a Hong Kong-based financial professional to blog (anonymously) about your career challenges. Give us the gossip on the good, the bad and the simply frustrating aspects of your working life, whether that’s job hunting, dealing with redundancy, or coping with awful managers. The [...]
Daily Dispatches: Lots of links about foreign banks in China, plus the heat’s on HSBC re its underperformer policy
Foreign banks are still small players in China, here’s proof. (Business China) Even more proof. (The Wall Street Journal) After several attempts at a JV in China, Citi teams up with Orient Securities. (The Wall Street Journal) More than a million millionaires in China. (Bloomberg) 10 per cent of employers in HSBC are underperformers no [...]
Career CPR: Is it humanly possible to go from the big four to the buy side?
In the latest instalment of our Career CPR series, we hear from a CPA who is hoping to get into the buy side. Read his dilemma and offer your advice in the comments box below The dilemma: I’m a big four certified public accountant in Hong Kong with a background in transaction services performing financial [...]
At which point does it become a bad move to work for Goldman Sachs?
If you’re alert to the media, you will be aware that Goldman Sachs is not getting a good press. First, there was a recent article blaming it for the food crisis. And then there was another article by the Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi who first concocted the ‘Vampire Squid’ moniker, calling for criminal charges [...]
HSBC boosts private bank as Asia escapes staff cuts
If you’re one of HSBC’s 296,000 employees, Asia is probably the best place to escape the up to US$3.5bn worth of savings the bank plans to make within the next three years. You’re sitting even safer as a private banker in Singapore because wealth management is a function the firm is trying to bolster. HSBC [...]
Calling all Hong Kong-based candidates: Share your job-seeking experiences by writing columns for eFC
eFinancialCareers.hk is calling on you, the candidate, to tell us (and your fellow readers) what it’s really like in the Hong Kong employment market. Never mind what recruiters and HR people think, we want financial-sector employees and job seekers to write (anonymous) columns about their careers. Give us the gossip on the good, the bad [...]
China Career Update: Is ICBC creating a new type of Chinese banker?
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s recent hiring of Deutsche Bank’s top Asian executive Lee Zhang as its new vice president is a landmark appointment for a Chinese bank and will also help ICBC to expand globally. This is the first time a senior management position at a major state-run bank will be filled by [...]
China Career Update: CICC seems to be hiring almost everywhere in China
China International Capital Corporation (CICC), the leading international investment bank in China, is hiring for its asset management department and retail group in second tier cities. Recent recruitment activity indicates that the firm is trying to fill positions such as investment consultant, channel marketing and sales, and retail customer services in order to develop and [...]
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