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Four avoidable reasons why your Irish Financial Services CV might be binned in 2012
So you’ve rewritten your CV with all your recent experience in it, and put in the latest buzzwords. But before you send it out to prospective employers, check for these entirely avoidable mistakes – which Ireland’s financial services recruiters tell us are all too common. 1. Grammar / Typing errors It’s of paramount importance to [...]
GUEST COMMENT: This is why you should use a recruitment consultant when you’re looking for a job in Ireland
You may argue that we are biased, but there are many valid reasons for using a recruitment consultancy – in Ireland and elsewhere – when you’re looking for a new job. Most importantly, many professionals will not want to approach companies directly for fear of losing confidentiality and exposing themselves as someone who is not [...]
Dispute erupts over redundancy payments as it’s claimed that thousands of new financial services jobs were created in Ireland last year
As we’ve noted on several occasions already, Irish banks are trimming their redundancy payments. AIB is rumoured to be paying only three weeks per year of service (down from 8 weeks last year). Ulster Bank is said to be paying 3 weeks. Bank of Ireland is said to be paying 4. Now, however, these reduced [...]
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 [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Seven tips to get your CV in shape for a role in the funds industry
There’s no shortage of generic advice on how to structure your CV, but while these provide some good tips formatting and structure, there’s lack of real information on how to sell your skills for particular sectors. Every CV, of course, should be targeted at specific job roles or sectors and fund accounting in Ireland is [...]
AIB wants people to leave voluntarily (and is cutting the pay of those who don’t), so would you go quietly in this market?
AIB is indeed making another 2,500 people redundant. The Irish Times reports that the bank is splitting the cuts proportionately between its 12,500 staff in Ireland, it’s 2,500 staff in Northern Ireland, and its UK division. Half the cuts are to happen this year. Half are to happen in 2013. Ideally, it wants all these [...]
Not only does AIB appear to be getting rid of 500 more people than originally anticipated, it appears to be paying them exceptionally poor redundancy packages
An announcement on AIB’s redundancies appears to be coming. According to Bloomberg, the number has been upped: AIB will not be letting go of 2,000 people as declared last April, it will be letting go of 2,500. The departures will, apparently, be announced sometime very soon – maybe even this week. The Guardian says the [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The three things you should never do whilst networking
As you will know if you have read much at all on the best method of finding a new job, networking is invaluable. A large majority of new roles come not from recruiters, not from online applications, but from candidates’ networks. To the uninitiated, networking may seem little more than chatting with friends and mentioning [...]
Things you should be asking for when a pay rise is off the table
Bonus is now a dirty word in Ireland and there are few financial services organisations that are willing (or able) to offer their employees pay rises. Even in the funds sector, which is considered among the most buoyant in Ireland, there’s little in the way of salary inflation despite an increase in opportunities. So, if [...]
If you’re Irish and you want to make it big in hedge funds, here’s your role model
Forbes’ ranking of the 40 highest paid hedge fund managers globally is out. Six are situated in Europe: 1. Alan Howard of Brevan Howard ($400m in 2011) 2. David Harding of Winton Capital management ($150m in 2011) 3. Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital management ($125m in 2011) 4. Yan Huo of Capula Investment management ($100m in 2011) 5. Colm O’Shea of Comac Capital ($100m in [...]
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