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GUEST COMMENT: How to misjudge, and then disastrously misfire in a private equity interviewIt is a thing of Torres-goal-scoring-beauty to pass on to the next level of interviews for a job in private equity. And just as with Chelsea’s over-priced player, it doesn’t happen often. The reason why getting a job in PE is so hard is simple. Like a night-club, it’s strictly one in, one out. Someone [...] |
Does Goldman Sachs need to hire some new salespeople and researchers?
Late Lunchtime Links: Insights into how you might get hired by Winton Capital, which appears an amazing place to work
Coutts is hiring. Be aware that it only wants senior people and may pay a very big base and quite a small bonus
Lessons in stress mitigation from Jamie Dimon, David Cameron and Ken Clarke
GRADUATE CAREERS COACH: What will the conversion rate be for this year’s intern classes, who influences whether you get a full time offer?
As part of a new series on eFinancialCareers, an experienced graduate recruiter is willing to answer some of your careers-related questions Nadia Capy-Osgood is a seasoned graduate recruiter who’s worked at various investment banks and is now a project manager for Graduate Solutions, an independent firm which operates graduate recruitment programmes for different firms in [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Advice for JP Morgan Scapegoats
First the good news: being fired from JP Morgan is far better than being fired from a less admired bank like Deutsche and if you’re one of the scapegoats for the $2 billion clusterfuss, I hope that places the advice I’m giving in the right context. Nietzsche is your friend This hasn’t destroyed you. If [...]
This niche tech role looks set to take off
This is niche, but if you’re a data analyst working in a bank without a dedicated team dealing with legal entity data management, expect there to be some opportunities in the future. Investment banks are, of course, grappling with a raft of new regulations – and the subsequent increased demands on data management and reporting [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: The foolish men who decided to be bankers rather than work for Facebook
We’ve said it before but the Facebook IPO makes it worth reiterating: investment banking is a career for the risk averse. Far more money is to be made elsewhere. In some cases, pursuit of the investment banking dream will damage your wealth. Hence, Eduardo Saverin failed to become even richer than he’s going to be [...]
Is an accounting qualification genuinely still a route into front office investment banking?
Back in the day, if you failed to get into a front office investment banking job (in this case corporate finance or equity research) as a fresh graduate, you still had options. The best one was to join a Big Four Accounting firm and to gain an ACA qualification. Thereafter, as long as you had [...]
10 tips for getting hired when nobody seems to be hiring
For anyone who has been searching for a financial job for more than a few weeks, the dreary and continued drain on time, effort, energy and spirit make it sometimes difficult to stay with it. You begin to wonder if you’ll ever get a job. Is anyone even hiring? To break the spell, there are [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I passed all three levels of the CFA in 18 months. This is how I tackled Level III
I’ve already written about my tactics for passing CFA Levels I and II. Now I’d like to share my method of passing CFA Level III. As I’ve pointed out on previous occasions, I managed to pass all three levels in a period of 18 months. The big problem with Level III is complacency. You get [...]
It’s simple: financial services headhunting is no longer a lucrative career
If you happen upon a financial services headhunter, spare a dime, or two, or three. Things are not what they were. As banks cut recruitment, they are also taking a serious look at the fees they pay headhunters. In many cases, they’ve come to the decision that it’s just not worth it. “There was a [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: JPMorgan is making 0.25% of its employees in London redundant; many banks’ share prices have plummeted since March
It’s not just Ina Drew and Achilles Macris. JPMorgan is cutting other people too. Bloomberg reports today that JPMorgan is cutting 20 jobs in London which are unrelated to its recent loss and therefore, we assume, external to the chief investment office. As the bank employs 8,000 people in the City, this amounts to only [...]
If you work anywhere in investment banking, you should familiarise yourself with Stuart Gulliver’s vision of the future
Today is HSBC investor day. Stuart Gulliver made a presentation. So did Sean O’Sullivan (COO) and so did Ian McKay (CFO). You may think HSBC is no massive deal in investment banking. But this would be wrong. In the first quarter, net revenues in the investment bank were $5.6bn, versus $8bn at Citi, and $4.7bn [...]
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