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REVIEW MY CV: I’ve switched out of estate agency and into corporate finance and want to build a career in investor marketing
Hello everyone. I want to work as a marketing analyst/exec and although I’m told that in terms of experience at my current position my CV is strong, but most firms are looking for people with experience in excess of one year (with RFP writing as a specific skill being mentioned fairly often) and they also [...]
The growing profile of banks’ spin doctors
The value of a good spin doctor – as Brown, Cameron, Clegg et al will discover in the coming weeks – shouldn’t be underestimated. Needless to say, banks are in need of a public image makeover, and demand for PR and communications professionals is on the up again. Banks’ new-found need for good publicity was [...]
One Goldman trader’s suggestion for winning the PR war
January 29 To: Lloyd Blankfein Re: Winning the Public Relations War Six months ago, with what I mistakenly took to be your tacit approval, I attempted to address ordinary Americans, almost as equals. They envied and resented our firm; I sought merely to correct their misunderstandings about Goldman Sachs… In hindsight, I misjudged their ability [...]
Could you be making a fortune in financial PR?
PR doesn’t really rank alongside banking in the league of Careers Known to Pay Handsomely. However, we may have been missing a trick: it emerged yesterday that the Alternative Investment Management Association is paying Finsbury €1m to lobby against the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive. Finsbury’s founder and senior, Roland Rudd, is already known [...]
Reinvent yourself as a financial journalist
Here’s a career stopgap for laid-off financial professionals – financial writer. It’s probably best suited for those from research backgrounds, who are well practiced at writing for an audience wider than their direct colleagues. Two recent migrants are former hedge fund manager Paul Sharma and former microfinance business owner Donna Childs. Both joined Dow Jones [...]
Reinvent yourself in financial PR, or not
With IPOs few and far between, it might seem reasonable to assume that the financial services public relations firms that help communicate the virtues of new listings are finding themselves a little over-staffed and under-occupied. However, in true PR-form, Angus Maitland, executive chairman of PR company Maitland, assures us that this isn’t the case at [...]
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