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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. [...]
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 [...]
Activities for the purpose of turning on recruiters in tough markets
You want a new job. As we noted on this morning, the first and hardest step nowadays appears to be putting yourself out there. The dynamic has changed. It’s not like it used to be: you won’t get a guarantee; you may be leaving a lot of stock. Assuming you do apply for a job and [...]
How to impress all the senior M&A bankers you encounter in interviews this year
In the event that you’re interviewing with senior M&A bankers for junior M&A jobs during 2012, you will probably want to impress them. This may not be easy. 2011 was not a good year for M&A; nor is there any indication that 2012 will be very much different. To make matters worse, the senior M&A [...]
Morgan Stanley: These are three questions we’ll ask during interview, and the answers we want to hear
Any job interview is the perfect chance for you to sell yourself to a potential employer, but many questions give you as much opportunity to slip up as they do to shine. If you’re applying to an investment operations role in Scotland, here are three types of interview questions you’ll encounter, and my guide to [...]
Q&A: BNY Mellon’s head of fund servicing in Ireland explains why there’s no substitute for hard work
Rachel Turner, heads up BNY Mellon’s fund servicing team in Ireland, and argues that while the virtues of a traditional accountant can’t be undervalued, it takes more than that to make it up the career ladder in fund administration. This is Rachel: And, in the first of a series of interviews with senior figures in [...]
Questions to expect in asset management interviews, and answers employers want to hear
Coming up with model questions asked within asset management firms in Scotland is as difficult as coming up with a model answer that’s guaranteed to blow any potential employers’ socks off. Questions will vary by area of expertise, seniority and whether the firm you’re interviewing with is a boutique or a large investment house. However, [...]
Jon Moulton’s favourite interview questions, and how to answer them
Jon Moulton has told us what he likes to ask candidates in interviews. If you are ever in an interview with Jon and you have read this article, you will therefore be at a substantial advantage. For those of you who have not heard of Jon, he is a very well known private equity investor [...]
Is it morally wrong for banks to pay big bonuses this year?
The government is looking to curb them as soon as possible, while banks want to pay the performers who bring in the profits, but is it morally wrong to pay big bonuses so soon after being bailed out from the brink of disaster? Alistair Darling seems intent on ensuring bonus payouts are scaled back before [...]
Ireland is one step ahead on bonus curbs
Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s impassioned attack on bankers’ bonuses is certainly in keeping with the attitude of other politicians gathering for the G20 summit in Pittsburgh this week, but it is really reflective if the current situation in Ireland? Cowen used the words “crazy” and “obscene” to describe the figures handed out to senior banking executives [...]
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