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GUEST COMMENT: 5 ways to adapt your CV if you want to get into an M&A boutique
There are numerous reasons why you might want to work for an M&A boutique. Firstly, they’re still hiring actively. Secondly – they offer excellent experience if you’re junior, with full exposure to the client and deal process on offer from the start. And thirdly, if you’re a more senior banker, a boutique can be a [...]
Do you genuinely want to get a new job? Try this, this and this
If you, like our guest columnist last week, have been sending out applications and CVs and getting no response, you may be feeling annoyed. Worse: you may be feeling apathetic. Don’t. And don’t be. As John Lees, career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You’ll Love, explains in this particular Harvard Business [...]
Testing, Testing
Banks will test your numeracy, and logical and verbal reasoning skills from the initial application stage through to the final hurdle at their assessment centres, especially in EMEA and Asia-Pacific, so be prepared. The problem is, though, that different banks use different tactics when setting psychometric tests. Some will expect everyone to sit a numerical [...]
CVs, Cover Letters and Applications
In recent years more banks have started to ask students to submit a CV in place of (or sometimes as well as) an application form. Here, three graduate recruitment professionals offer advice on how to approach the written application. CVs Length Ideally one page, but never more than two. Contact details Put your name in [...]
Global Recruitment Timelines
EMEA Deadlines Most full-time graduate programmes closed between late October and mid-November, although some banks recruit into early December. Certain divisions, notably technology, operations and finance, have extended the recruitment process into the new year. Summer internship deadlines close in mid-January. Application form or CV Increasingly, banks are favouring CVs because of the volume of [...]
Overseas and unemployed candidates don’t have many reasons to be cheerful in Hong Kong
In the third and final part of our report from the eFinancialCareers recruitment roundtable in Hong Kong, we examine a variety of different topics affecting the employment market, from bonus guarantees to applicants overseas. Click here and here if you haven’t read the first two articles. Expat anxieties The panel of senior in-house HR professionals [...]
Daily Dispatches: Pru doesn’t fear agent defections
The head of Prudential’s Asian operations has dismissed fears that a takeover of AIG’s regional business by the UK insurer, a long-time rival, will trigger mass defections among its 320,000 sales agents. (Financial Times) Andrew Moss believes Asia is the next frontier for the financial-services industry. But the company he heads, British insurance giant Aviva, [...]
Editor’s Take: managing expat expectations in Asia
An upbeat Financial Times article last week about job opps in Asia has been causing quite a stir in Singapore and Hong Kong. Recruiters’ (and eFinancialCareers editors’) inboxes are currently cluttered with “have you read this?” emails containing the FT link (or one to a similar Asia-leads-the-world story in The New York Times). Overall, this [...]
Look who’s hiring: the bank that fired you
Banks in Asia are becoming more open to rehiring ex-employees, especially for jobs requiring revenue generators, or people familiar with internal structures and operations. US media reports claim that Bank of America-Merrill Lynch is mounting a campaign to rehire several senior Merrill investment bankers who quit after the firms merged. A spokesman for the bank [...]
Merrill wants to hire again in Asia
Merrill Lynch plans to recruit for its Asian wealth management division, despite an overall decline in assets under management across the private banking industry and the ongoing internal challenge of integrating with parent company Bank of America. The firm is finalising a three-to-five-year plan to grow its business in the region. Dan Sontag, head of [...]
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