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The Junior: The mouthwatering opportunities outside of banking that potentially await you after two years grunt work as an analyst
Investment banking analysts who have worked for two to three years typically have rosy futures in front of them. Even for those who choose not to become an associate in a bank, there are many options to pursue. Their IB experience, especially if it’s at a tier-one firm, is coveted by employers outside of banking. [...]
Daily Dispatches: Singaporean finance professionals get a leg up; Formula One’s IPO takes flight
The Singapore government has announced a slew of programmes to better develop Singaporeans into finance chiefs. These include raising the employment pass standards of foreigners to manage the growth of the expat workforce and the provision of scholarships for young professionals. (The Straits Times) Formula One has been given the go ahead for a US$2.5bn share [...]
Why being approved for a banking job is a tedious, tortuous process (and why this may not be a such a bad thing)
The time it takes from first interview to job offer has got even longer for candidates this year, but there is a potential upside – for both employers and candidates. The 17 senior financial HR professionals who attended the recent eFinancialCareers roundtable in Hong Kong agreed that the hiring process is as protracted as it [...]
The Runaway MBA: Choosing between Singapore and Hong Kong is overwhelmingly complicated
Before I begin, I can already hear the choir singing, “that dumb ignorant American”. But coming from the US, how do you distinguish between Singapore and Hong Kong? They both sound equally exciting. How do you choose where to focus your time and effort when networking? If you’re a Singapore or Hong Kong local, can [...]
Investor protests aside, here’s another very persuasive argument against generous banker pay
Executive pay isn’t all that it’s cut out to be, if a recent joint study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the London School of Economics is anything to go by. Making executive pay work: The psychology of incentives, surveyed 1,106 executives across 43 countries. Ironically it found that highly complex compensation packages with deferred bonuses – beloved [...]
Daily Dispatches: Experienced bankers wanted at Coutts
Coutts is keen on recruiting senior directors in Asia, Middle East, UK, Eastern Europe and Switzerland. The firm has ramped up headcount in this area by a third since January this year. It’s also hired about 20 new senior executives, with about another 10 starting work soon. The bulk of the hires hail from Credit [...]
10 tips for getting hired when nobody seems to be hiring
For anyone who has been searching for a financial job for more than a few weeks, the dreary and continued drain on time, effort, energy and spirit make it sometimes difficult to stay with it. You begin to wonder if you’ll ever get a job. Is anyone even hiring? To break the spell, there are [...]
Lessons on the dark art of CV manipulation from former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson
Here’s a career lesson that you can take from Scott Thompson, Yahoo’s former chief executive of less than six months – never lie on your CV. It’s unethical and could spell career suicide if you get found out.Unfortunately, Thompson learnt this the hard way. First, he claimed to be unaware of a non-existent computer science [...]
Daily Dispatches: Rich Americans are being given the cold shoulder in Asia
HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Bank of Singapore and DBS have all turned away wealthy American clients ahead of the “draconian” Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Tan Su Shan, head of private banking at DBS, says: “I don’t open US accounts, period.” (Bloomberg Businessweek) “Japan’s mega-banks have lumbered off their home territory to pick up some of [...]
Expats bid farewell to top jobs at the big four audit firms in China
Talent localisation in China has been given a boost with the recent regulatory changes announced by the Ministry of Finance last week. By the end of this year, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers – which operate as joint ventures on the mainland – have to hand over control of their operations to their [...]
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