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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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I passed all three levels of the CFA in 18 months. This is how I tackled Level III
I’ve already written about my tactics for passing CFA Levels I and II. Now I’d like to share my method of passing CFA Level III. As I’ve pointed out on previous occasions, I managed to pass all three levels in a period of 18 months. The big problem with Level III is complacency. You get [...]
How to ensure your CV is read by the robots
Recruiters report that due to the overwhelming supply of talent today, desperate job seekers are flooding every position—but that 50% or more of applicants are unqualified for the position to which they are applying. To save companies time and money, the hiring process has been almost entirely automated. Most large firms will now use software [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to send out three hundred job applications for an equity trading job, and still get nowhere
I have a friend who was a junior equities trader. He joined the bank straight out of university, worked there for a few years and was made redundant. Four months into his redundancy, we spoke and he mentioned to me that he’d submitted more than 300 job applications. I didn’t totally believe this and asked [...]
3 pieces of important advice for all the AIB staff facing redundancy
With another two weeks of waiting to go (according to a spokesperson at IBOA, the finance union), staff at Allied Irish Bank are apparently still waiting for their redundancy terms to be announced. If you’re one of the 2,500 AIB staff in danger of losing your job (or who’s taken voluntary redundancy), what should you [...]
7 facts that you’ll need to assimilate if you’re going to get a job in banking now
In the event that you’re seeking a gloom-laden metaphor to describe the current state of the banking industry, Bloomberg news has the answer. It’s spoken to Kevin Conn, an analyst at Massachusetts Financial Services Co, who says banking is in a situation similar to the setting of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction story The Long Rain, [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The final countdown to the CFA Programme June Examinations
(Or The Final Countdown (you have to hum the tune as you read this) 4 WEEKS TO GO… By now you should have finished your first reading of the CFA curriculum. If you haven’t then get a move on, time is ticking away. Make a plan for the critical phase that’s coming up: revision. There [...]
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