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Your questions to the head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, and her answers
Sarah Cockburn, head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, has agreed to respond to some of your questions on graduate jobs and internships. We’ve started the process by asking Sarah a few questions below. Please post your questions in the comments box at the bottom of this page. Sarah will be answering three a day [...]
Unsurprising survey suggests graduates have been accepting unappealing financial services jobs out of desperation
Given that front office jobs are hard to come by and there comes a point when you have to bite the bullet and accept a role in the back or middle office (eg. A job in operations or finance instead of M&A or trading), or maybe even a job in insurance, it may come as [...]
Day in the Life: Investment banking analyst
Name: Carmen Chan Firm: UBS Title: Analyst Dept: Investment banking 7.30am – 9.00am It is always hard to describe a typical day at work because you never know when the markets or a transaction will take a sudden turn. That being said, I usually start my day around 7.30-8.00am from home. One of the first things I do is [...]
Q&A: A credit trader explains why the best of his breed are a polished, charismatic, tenacious, combination of lawyers, accountants and risk managers
We spoke to a seasoned credit trader about what life is really like in his chosen profession. This is what he told us. Q: How long have you been a credit trader? A: I started in credit trading after the bank’s graduate analyst 10-week bootcamp (which started a month following the end of my undergraduate [...]
Insights into what it’s like to work in equity research at Goldman Sachs
If you’re thinking of a career in equity research, you may be interested to read this week’s SEC ruling on equity research huddles at Goldman Sachs. The huddles have now stopped, after Goldman was fined $22m for failing to implement procedures transferring inside information to hedge funds, but the ruling is nonetheless replete with information [...]
A quantitative prop trader reveals all about his job
For its excellent series of banking talking heads, the Guardian has interviewed someone claiming to be a, “quantitative prop trader,” if you’re interested in working in trading, you may be interested in the fundamentals of his role – which we’ve extracted below. (Bear in mind, that the ‘Volcker Rule’ means many US investment banks have [...]
A very brief description of what it’s like to work in equity derivatives structuring in an investment bank
As part of its continuing series of conversations with people who once worked in banking, the Guardian has unearthed a former equity derivatives structurer. If you’re thinking of going into a graduate job in structuring, you may be interested in his bare bones description of the role, below: “Structuring is a bit like project management, [...]
What it’s like to work in sales at an investment bank
If you’re thinking of going into a graduate job in a sales position in an investment bank when you leave university, we advise you familiarize yourself with the very detailed account of the life of an investment banking saleswoman published in the Guardian today. Here are the salient points: 1.You will have to get up [...]
Everything you need to know about the strategic priorities and redundancies at six of the investment banks you’re thinking of joining out of university
If you’re joining an investment bank later this year, either as a full time graduate hire or as an intern, you may be feeling a little concerned. As you probably know, the financial services industry globally has been making hundreds of thousands of redundancies globally and some investment banks appear to be suffering from unsustainable [...]
When to apply for internships and graduate programmes – this year’s deadlines
Applications for 2012 are already happening. In some banks they’ve been open for a few months already. Now is therefore the time to brush up your CV, get your application form head on, and start applying for student jobs. We’ve put together a list of banks, with as much information as we can find about [...]
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