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Twenty two people who can get you a job in banking
If you want a job in banking, you will need to network. A failure to properly engage and to direct applications to named individuals is one reason why your attempts to land a job in banking may fail. With this in mind, we’ve provided a non-comprehensive, non-alphabetical, sort of off-the-cuff list of some of the […]
The inexperienced 20-somethings every bank wants to hire
The life of an athlete isn’t always the glitz, glamour and huge pay days associated with football, the NFL and basketball. Many competing at an elite level do so in sports that offer little financial reward, but still require the same focus, commitment and sacrifice. Career planning can fall by the wayside, but financial services […]
The seven mental disorders most prevalent in financial services
Financial services professionals are under pressure. In an environment where bankers are vilified, job prospects are increasingly limited and the prospect of redundancy looms large, mental health issues are becoming ever more common in the financial sector. In fact, according to research released this week from Legal & General, depression and anxiety in the financial […]
How to Get a Job in Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs
In late 2009, Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein planted the company flag in a sector that wasn’t the firm’s main focus: wealth management. “That should be bigger than it is,” he said of the unit at the time. Goldman has been methodically adding people since, and has been crawling up the rankings. Goldman’s wealth […]
This Screenshot Typifies the Life of an Investment Banker
Investment bankers make plenty of money, but it often comes at a price, for the banker and their family. This screenshot, taken by an investment banking source at Barclays, paints this picture with clear strokes. The bank is hosting an upcoming event called “The Nanny Factor,” which will cover the “challenges and benefits” of someone […]
Goldman Sachs hires particle physicist from the Large Hadron Collider
Forget a PhD from Imperial College or the doctoral programme in finance at Wharton – the hottest people in quantitative finance come from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland. In fact, Goldman Sachs has just hired one of them. Ryan Buckingham, a particle physicist with a PhD from Oxford University, spent […]
Why other people are getting jobs and you’re not
Gore Vidal famously said that, ‘whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.’ Much the same might be said when a friend – or ex-colleague – finds a new job and you don’t, especially if you’ve had the misfortune to be out of the market for a long time (or maybe just out […]
The weirdness of working for Bloomberg
Bloomberg is having a ‘moment’. Ever since news broke last week that its journalists were able to monitor bankers’ access to Bloomberg terminals as a source of information, Bloomberg itself has become the story. Since then a light has been shone on what working at Bloomberg entails. All we can say is – its good […]
Fear factor: bankers only have 50 days to find new jobs
How quickly do you need to find a new job if you’re a banker who has been laid off? Very, it would seem. An analysis of 10 recent hires at major banks in London shows that on average experienced bankers spend only 50 days between jobs. Data from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) register […]
The perfect personality for working in banking
When Sergio Ermotti, group chief executive of UBS, participated in a panel discussion at the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland recently, he admitted that there might be some colourful characters working for UBS. ““Of course there are going to be some people who are crazy. No matter how well we screen,” he told attendees. Crazy is […]
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