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Did Irish financial services salaries really increase 8-10% in the first three months of this year?
Financial services salaries in Ireland are increasing according to recruitment firm Robert Walters. As financial services businesses in Ireland became, “more assured,” of the future, it says they awarded salary increases of between 4 and 8% to their staff in the first quarter of 2012. These were accompanied by bonuses of 5-10%. Robert Walters outlines [...]
GUEST COMMENT: What happens when your investment banking CV sends the wrong message
Mixed messages in CVs usually derive from the writer’s own mind set and that rule applies to investment bankers, fund managers, private bankers, traders of any age or nationality. From my City experience I find there are usually two mind sets which create mixed messages: Superhero and scarecrow. What are these and how can they be [...]
Is Ireland losing financial services jobs to Luxembourg? Should you care?
As we pointed out a few weeks’ ago, if you’re intending to look for work outside Ireland you may want to try Luxembourg. It has plenty of benefits, not least the fact that Luxembourg is also a fund administration centre and the skills you’ve gained in Ireland will be eminently applicable there too. Slightly depressing, [...]
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 [...]
We understand the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is going to be looking for a lot of technologists in Belfast
Belfast is already well established as a centre for financial technology. Now, another new arrival is seeking to make the most of its expertise. We understand the the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is setting up a big new technology hub in the City and is getting ready to hire. The Belfast Telegraph reported that the CME was [...]
Slowly, structured credit hiring may be looking up in Ireland
It seems unlikely, and yet – there are some signs that structured credit jobs are making a comeback in Ireland. Needless to say, most investors and banks pulled back from the structured credit after 2008. In the bad old days Anglo had a structured credit business packaging structured credit products, and a ‘credit investments division,’ [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Why the new competency requirements will make financial sector recruitment decidedly more drawn out
Next year, job-seekers in Ireland’s financial services industry don’t just have to worry about the buoyancy of the market, they will also have to deal with employers’ increasing stringency when it comes to recruiting new staff. From December, the vast majority of people working in the financial services (with the exception of call centre staff) [...]
Ireland’s financial IT sector is booming, but is the contractor route better?
Barely a week goes by without some sort of announcement that a financial services technology company is setting up in Ireland. However, the volume of new roles combined with that fact that more and more technologists are choosing the lucrative contract route, means a shortage of candidates looks likely. Yesterday, financial services software vendor Misys [...]
Finally, there are some signs of life in Irish corporate finance recruitment
If you work in a corporate finance role in Ireland, you don’t need us to tell you that new job opportunities have been thin on the ground in the last two years. Now, however, there appears to be a renewed appetite to hire. According to recruitment sources, the Big Four professional services firms have been [...]
Irish graduates now face competition from experienced financial services professionals
Graduates looking to break into financial services in Ireland are not just facing competition from one another, but from people with up to one year’s industry experience. The good news for graduates is that more financial services firms in Ireland are recruiting juniors again. Most of the fund servicing firms have been on the milkrounds [...]
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