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Calling all Ireland-based candidates: Share your job-seeking experiences by writing columns for eFinancialCareers

If you’re a financial services professional looking for a new position in Ireland currently, you’re facing one of the toughest job markets in living memory. eFinancialCareers Ireland is hoping that you, the financial services professional, can tell us (and your fellow readers) what it’s really like in the Irish employment market. Is it really that [...]

By eFinancialCareers Ireland, 6 July 2011 • 2 comments

Authentic killer questions used in financial services interviews

You may be aware that we are currently running a competition. If you tell us the most punitive question you have ever come across/conceived, either as an interviewee or interviewer, plus the answer you gave/wanted, we will enter you for a draw to win an iPad. Below, in no particular order, are the questions we’ve [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 15 June 2010 • 20 comments

The bright lights of Belfast

As expanding firms look for new locations outside of Dublin, Belfast is being touted as a new financial services centre. In July, Bank of Ireland Securities Services (BOISS) opened a Belfast office for foreign hedge fund administration in which it eventually plans to employ 149 people. BOISS says 10% of its workforce south of the [...]

By anonymous, 17 October 2007 • 0 comments

Country competitors laying down roots

Dublin has some home-grown competition: fund administrators are setting up shop in other areas of Ireland. The Irish capital has established itself as a centre for fund administration over the last 10 years, and while this position looks unlikely to change, other cities in the country are growing in appeal. Cork is the obvious alternative, [...]

By anonymous, 9 October 2007 • 0 comments

Who’s got the best building?

Banks and financial services organisations are thinking about more than just location, location, location when it comes to finding and creating the right workplace. Bank of Ireland are looking for a new headquarters in Dublin and, while accessibility and good transport links are important, it’ll have to cater for employees’ ‘other needs’ as well. “We [...]

By anonymous, 12 July 2007 • 0 comments