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What employers want from you in an interview
It’s the most stressful part of the job seeking process: the interview. When you are fortunate enough to have your job search reach that level, there is at last a face to contend with. To help you succeed in the tete-a-tete, understanding what goes through the interviewer’s mind may help you land that next position. [...]
There’s big demand for contract workers in Irish financial services. Here’s how much they’re paid
Ireland’s financial services contract workers have reason to feel a little apprehensive. The six month delay in enacting the Agency Worker’s Directive (AWD) has come to an end. The Bill was passed earlier this month. All that remains now is to see its impact. Helen Gallagher, human resources manager at recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, says [...]
Third year economics student at York University explains how she converted her equity research internship into a job offer from Goldman Sachs
What does it take to get a graduate job in equity research at Goldman Sachs? We’ve already looked at what equity research at Goldman Sachs involves, but if you want to know about succeeding in the recruitment process, Katherine Chan, a third year economics student at York University (with a graduate offer of an equity [...]
You may now submit your request for voluntary redundancy at AIB
It’s finally happened: yesterday, AIB started accepting applications for voluntary severance. The bank will reportedly be offering its 2,500 staff four weeks’ pay per year of service, including their statutory entitlement, or three weeks’ pay per year of service, plus statutory entitlement. Severance pay will be capped at two years of annual salary, or €225k [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I am not overqualified, I am over 40
When I was made redundant from my job as a middle office manager with a leading asset management company a few years ago, I didn’t envisage I’d have any problems finding an alternative position. After all, I had nearly 20 years’ experience within the investment business, many of them in a managerial and training capacity. [...]
Q&A with an anonymous senior fund manager: Is fund management really such a well paid, stress-free career:
Q: Let’s get right down to business. We’ve already heard the juicy bits of your escape from the back office – now we’d like to step into your shoes. So what do you actually do as a fund manager? How do you invest? A: It really depends. The industry encompasses so many different methods of [...]
Your questions to the head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, and her answers
Sarah Cockburn, head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, has agreed to respond to some of your questions on graduate jobs and internships. We’ve started the process by asking Sarah a few questions below. Please post your questions in the comments box at the bottom of this page. Sarah will be answering three a day [...]
The misguided job search tactics of the alpha male
Being an alpha male can be a good thing. Alpha males are confident, natural leaders. They’re usually intelligent. They’re analytical and they’re doers. Lloyds is so keen to turn its employees into alpha males, it’s reportedly sent them on a course titled, ‘Hunter-Gatherers in the Corporate Jungle,’ where they’ve been equipped with alpha male traits. [...]
UK university students have suddenly discovered that actuarial careers are a good, solid bet
Something has happened. Actuarial careers, long known as a highly-paid, stable, quite unpopular and therefore comparatively accessible option by the student cognoscenti, have emerged from the shadows. Today’s release from graduate research company High Fliers, reveals that a lot more students want to be actuaries this year than last year. Human resources is popular too [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to misjudge, and then disastrously misfire in a private equity interview
It is a thing of Torres-goal-scoring-beauty to pass on to the next level of interviews for a job in private equity. And just as with Chelsea’s over-priced player, it doesn’t happen often. The reason why getting a job in PE is so hard is simple. Like a night-club, it’s strictly one in, one out. Someone [...]
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