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As the global recession deepens, so is a new professional niche: providing services to job-seekers, from social networking forums to resume makeovers and career-change advice. Many service provider ...

If there’s a French trader in your vicinity, he or she is probably looking a little down in la bouche. In a TV appearance last week, President Sarkozy accused equated traders at French banks wit ...

How (if at all) would your life change if you had to give back your 2008 bonus? Various elected officials are exploring "every possible legal means and otherwise" (Sen. Dodd's wording) for forcing ...

If you're in the job market or at least open to new opportunities – a fair assumption since you're reading eFinancialCareers – which do you value more highly when weighing a possible new job: growth p ...

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 ...

Timothy Geithner, nominated to be the next U.S. Treasury Secretary, waited for an IRS audit in 2006 before paying certain taxes he owed. Then, after that audit overlooked he'd failed to pay the same t ...

eFC guest author Jenny Herring, a financial writer and public relations professional currently "in transition," created a stir with a Dec. 29 article, Dating For Jobs. Its premise was that finding ...

They used to be well down the totem pole. But today they rule the roost as never before. Might your career benefit from rubbing shoulders with them for a year or three? We're talking about regulato ...

An eFC user asks: Is it time to for you to cash out of our New York City co-op, brownstone or condo and use the cash to buy a foreclosure elsewhere, and make a new start by learning a career in anothe ...

Do you think Morgan Stanley and other banks that adopt wide-ranging bonus clawback provisions are setting themselves up as lawsuit-bait? If your employer adopted such a system, would it make your ...

The bosses of Ford and General Motors have offered to work for salaries of $1 a year if Congress approves the $27bn aid package they’re asking for. It’s difficult not to draw a compari ...

Testifying before Congress Nov. 18, Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke each asserted that financial conditions are better than they would have been without the U.S. bank bailout. ...

Would you be a banker if most of your pay was at risk for three to five years rather than a maximum of one year? UBS just decided to make itself the test case for overhauling incentive pay. Its ne ...

There is little doubt that the momentous results of America's national elections will change government and society in a multitude of ways. As a financial professional, how do you expect the Obama ...

US banks aren't exactly known for a glasnost-style approach to employees who talk openly to the press. But when it comes to blogging they err even more on the side of despotism than usual. Back in ...

An eFinancialCareers survey this month indicates that two out of three financial services professionals employed in the U.S. expect to get a bonus this year, and more than one in three expect their bo ...

What’s worse for your career (and your ego) – being thrown on the redundancy scrapheap, or having your salary slashed by a quarter? That was the dilemma faced by CLSA staff who were told to ta ...

Miles of choice words, some unprintable, have been published about those wonderful financial wizards who dreamed up and distributed all the toxic securities that set the stage for the ongoing financia ...

Touted as possible sanctuaries from the problems crippling the Western financial system, do the Middle East or Asia really offer ample job opportunities or even any shelter from redundancies? ...

Now that it's that time of year again when you used to salivate about getting paid… is your biggest year-end purchase going to be a tighter belt? Whether on Wall Street or the City, government honc ...