Sector: Accounting & Finance

Financial services firms are astoundingly popular among Swedish graduates

If, in 2008, the idea of working in banking was becoming increasingly unpalatable to Swedish students, the class of 2011 have had a change of heart. Research firm Universum has just produced its latest rankings of companies that are popular with Swedish graduates and it’s dominated by banks and financial services firms. Although furniture giant [...]

By Nic Paton, 17 June 2011 • 0 comments

How to dress up your middle office CV for a move into the front office

So you work somewhere in the middle office (risk/finance/trade support), and you want to work somewhere in the front office (sales/trading/structuring)? What do you need to do to your CV to make this happen? Firstly, a qualifying point. It is not that easy to move into the front office from a middle office role. It [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 10 June 2010 • 7 comments

Four middle office jobs which may allow you to become a trader

If you want to go into trading, but you didn’t manage to get a position as a trader straight out of university, you may be feeling a little thwarted. Most banks hire fewer MBAs into sales and trading positions than into M&A or capital markets, so it can be difficult to ride the top business [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 23 March 2010 • 23 comments