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Sector: Graduates and interns
How unemployed bankers can make £300 an hour
Some salvation for both unemployed investment bankers and still-employed investment bankers in need of extra cash: a new website allows bankers to sell career advice to students and junior financial services professionals, for a fee. Magali McIntyre, a former M&A banker at Lehman Brothers, said she’s signed up around 100 current and former bankers to her […]
Tell us your graduate/internship interview questions and you could win an iPod touch
Have you interviewed for an internship or graduate position at an investment bank, fund manager, hedge fund, or other financial services organisation in the past 12 months? We want to know what you were asked in order to build our existing stock of financial services graduate interview questions. If you want to be entered, all you […]
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: Santander, Retail Banking, Graduate Job
Question: Tell me about a time when you worked in a successful team. Student’s Answer: I work as a tennis coach and several of us from the tennis centre organised a charity event. While brainstorming about the programme of the day, one of the coaches proposed a raffle prize sale and a cupcake sale to […]
Want a graduate job at this investment bank? It will help if you blog
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International – the Japanese bank which we understand will be on a hiring drive in New York and Asia next year – has hit upon a novel way of differentiating between people who apply for its graduate and intern programmes in London: it’s asked them to write a short blog. “Last year […]
Goldman Sachs recruiting head has responded to your questions on getting a graduate job
Sarah Harper, head of recruitment for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Goldman Sachs, agreed to respond to some of your questions on graduate jobs and internships at the firm. We started the process by asking Sarah a few questions immediately below. Her answers to your questions are at the bottom of this page. […]
GUEST COMMENT: How to prepare for a graduate trading interview with an investment bank
The good news about interviewing is that it’s a skill, and with the right amount of practice and effort you can master it. And unlike with networking, you can actually improve your odds quite a bit at the last minute with solid interview preparation. Based on personal experience (I got an offer from an investment […]
Bank-by-bank internship and graduate programme application deadlines for 2012 and 2013
It’s September and that means it’s prime graduate and internship application season. As we keep saying, banks think there’s a link between the calibre of applications and how quick students are to send their applications in. The best students, apparently, apply first. They will often also interview and fill places on a rolling basis. With […]
A ranking of the most targeted universities by investment banks in Europe
Which universities do investment banks like to hire from in Europe? Based upon the universities they target for graduate careers presentations, it looks like a select few. After scouring 5 banks’ websites (UBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan) for the European universities they’re visiting this milk round, we’ve produced the following list. […]
Read this diary of my operations internship in an investment bank and you will understand why I am determined to work in the front office
This summer, I spent 12 weeks working as an intern at a leading investment bank in London. I wasn’t in M&A. Nor was I in sales or trading. I was in operations. What’s operations? Read the condensed version of my internship below. Is operations an appealing job? That’s for you to find out. Personally, however, […]
GUEST COMMENT: Investment banks are obsessed with hiring graduates with exciting extra-curricular interests. This is what to do about that
Seriously, what does the fact that I competed in the Oxbridge boat race, debated Bill Clinton’s misdemeanours, or edited the university newspaper have to do with my ability to be an accurate and skilled trader or an astute corporate dealmaker? When I was applying for graduate trainee positions, I can remember feeling frustrated and angry […]
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