Company: Zurich

GUEST COMMENT: Psych assessments – get used to them, they’re here to stay

Answer the following multiple choice question. Psychometric assessment is: a) torture b) used if the hiring manager has concerns about a candidate’s mental stability c) already used for both graduate and lateral recruitment and increasingly becoming standard practice in banking recruitment. According to the two key providers of psychometric testing, SHL and Chandler Macleod, the [...]

Swiss cities and Singapore come out on top, Milan and Hong Kong marked down

The quality of living survey from Mercer Human Resources Consulting ranks Zurich and Geneva top among global financial services centres for their quality of life. They are followed, in ranking order, by Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, London, New York, Milan and Hong Kong. Slagin Parakatil, one of the Mercer researchers who compiled the report, attributes the [...]