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Everything you need to know about Deutsche Bank’s Accelerate scholarship for candidates of black African, Caribbean or mixed black heritage
We spoke to Andre Flemmings from Rare, a diversity recruitment company which runs a scholarship programme in conjunction with Deutsche Bank to get more black students into banking. This is what Andre told us: What is the Accelerate Scholarship exactly? It’s a scholarship programme offered each year by Deutsche Bank to candidates from back African, Caribbean, [...]
Third year economics student at York University explains how she converted her equity research internship into a job offer from Goldman Sachs
What does it take to get a graduate job in equity research at Goldman Sachs? We’ve already looked at what equity research at Goldman Sachs involves, but if you want to know about succeeding in the recruitment process, Katherine Chan, a third year economics student at York University (with a graduate offer of an equity [...]
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 [...]
UK university students have suddenly discovered that actuarial careers are a good, solid bet
Something has happened. Actuarial careers, long known as a highly-paid, stable, quite unpopular and therefore comparatively accessible option by the student cognoscenti, have emerged from the shadows. Today’s release from graduate research company High Fliers, reveals that a lot more students want to be actuaries this year than last year. Human resources is popular too [...]
The UK’s most employable and money-oriented students attend these universities
There are two things out today which suggest where you should have gone/be going to university in the UK. Thing one is the Guardian’s university league table. This offers a ranking by university and by universities with the best career prospects. Thing two is a new report from research company High Fliers (known also for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two economics professors describe how investment banks lure their students, and why students should resist
Joris Luyendijk, the anthropologist and journalist who’s been interviewing bankers and their friends for the Guardian, has spoken to two professors of economics, one at Oxbridge, one at an unnamed university in London (probably the LSE) about the career choices of their students. Both paint a remarkably similar portrait of naïve undergraduates tempted into banking [...]
Taking a Masters degree could improve your pay prospects
There’s an ongoing debate about whether staying on and taking a Masters degree, particularly a Masters in Finance, will increase your career prospects within the financial sector. The average tuition fees for an MA in the UK are £4k, while most Masters in Finance between £20-30k. It’s expensive, and for such a monetary outlay, you’d [...]
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 [...]
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