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You completed your BA seven years ago and your MBA two years ago - both at public universities. Your rivals boast Ivy degrees. Does it really matter? A second- or third-tier educational background ...

An eFC user asks: To break into New York's top financial institutions, would a candidate do better to pursue the CFA designation, a CPA certification, or an MBA degree? What do you think is the op ...

It takes months to fill an opening, hiring managers lament. It takes months to land a job, applicants complain. If both sides want speed, what's taking so long? With the U.S. economy well into a f ...

As Wall Street evolves, does its self-perception keep up? For example, is Quant a part of trading? Is Accounting just another part of Operations? Are these lines sharp or blurred? Or, take the sect ...

Ok, early 40s isn’t exactly an age at which you’re likely be reaching for the Zimmer frame and the denture adhesive, but it’s fairly antiquated when you consider that the average front-office banker i ...

There's no shortage of opinions when it comes to an MBAs versus a CFA., or on how to approach psychological testing. CFA or MBA: Which is right for you? It's good, it's bad and it's even ...

As the U.S. presidential campaign enters its home stretch, economic and financial problems are in the public spotlight as perhaps never before. With the housing slump and the threat of bank failur ...

Would you take a job in Eliot Spitzer's new real estate investment fund? A New York newspaper reported recently that the deposed governor and former New York State Attorney General sounded out alli ...

Feeling secure? Many people aren't. Well more than half of the eFC users we polled last week see layoffs on the horizon. More than 37 percent expect pink slips to begin going out during the fourth ...

Propping them up with taxpayer-funded capital injections didn't help enough, it seems. Now there's growing talk (from both major political parties) about nationalizing the most troubled of the big ban ...

Do women have a tougher path than men in hedge funds? One hedge fund manager says to women starting out: "Don't take it personally if our culture still has some difficulties. There are plenty of su ...

We've all heard plenty about greedy financiers who brought the world to its knees. Well, it's time the peddlers of that cartoon-like stereotype heard from the rest of us. You're in finance. Are you ...

Too much experience can be a career-killer, especially in today's hyper-competitive job market. So is it legitimate to delete your first job or three, in hopes of erasing some telltale age-lines from ...

Is the world’s love affair with Macquarie Group about to come to a bitter and twisted end? The pin-up boy of Aussie finance, which is currently on a hiring spree in the US and Europe, seems t ...

How (if at all) would your life change if Congress or your employer insists you give back your 2008 bonus (or at least, 90 percent of it)? When we posed this question in early February in a variet ...

Fuld has ditched his CFO and COO, but should he himself follow in the footsteps of Stan O’Neal, Chuck Prince, Marcel Ospel, Mark Litzler and Wachovia’s Ken Thompson? At the very least, Di ...

If Meredith Whitney’s right, Citi’s going to the dogs no matter how hard Vikram Pandit tries to bed it down amongst the roses. Whitney says Pandit faces an “impossible feat” in turning Ci ...

Depending which manifestation you look at, the credit crunch has raged anywhere from three to 18 months. Is the tide about to turn? Housing has been correcting for more than a year. Financial marke ...

Would the world be better off if most financiers weren't such alpha types? Do we really need our bankers to be among the smartest, best-educated people around? Or, would society as a whole make out ...

When a government has to step in to nationalise one ailing bank, it’s big news. When a government steps in to nationalise two ailing banks, it’s even bigger news. But when a government tries to splash ...