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Competition: Want your CV assessed by graduate recruiters for free?
Here’s your chance to get feedback on your individual CV from people who are selecting graduates for next year’s intake in the banks BEFORE you submit your application in the autumn for real. This year’s Careers in Financial Markets student guide will once again include our highly popular article on CVs, featuring feedback from graduate […]
Any sort of CV spelling error will sink your chances
Standing in a financial district touting your wares on a billboard is no longer a particularly original method of job hunting, but it is one that has yielded results for those brave enough to do it. The latest person to undertake this technique is Marko Stojanovik, who has been holding a sign in London’s Liverpool […]
Rejected for a graduate job in an investment bank: how soon will you hear back?
We’re at the key stage of the year for investment bank’s full time graduate recruitment processes. First interviews are happening or have already happened and assessment centres are in play, but you still haven’t heard anything back after sending in your graduate application a month ago. Does this mean you’ve been rejected? Not necessarily. Investment […]
GUEST COMMENT: How I plan to convert my back office investment banking internship into a front office job
Last summer, I completed an internship in an investment bank. During this, I networked like crazy and managed to achieve a 3 hour tour of the trading floor during my last week of work. I did my homework before I arrived and by genuinely caring and showing an interest while I was on the internship, […]
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 new and innovative way to access top financial services recruiters
In the current competitive job market, students should be embracing any opportunity to network, quiz and, most importantly, impress graduate recruiters in the financial services space. Milk rounds are all very well, but not only are you vying for attention among a throng of other students, but you also – inconveniently – have to leave […]
This is how investment banks’ graduate recruiters will evaluate your CV
You may think that graduate hiring decisions are based entirely upon whether you went to the right university and got the right grades, or whether your uncle knows the EMEA head of M&A. They’re not. Investment banks and financial services firms work hard to make their graduate recruitment processes as objective as possible. Many use […]
SCORING STUDENTS’ CVs: How our evaluators rank your chances of getting a graduate job in an investment bank
Following our call for students to send us their CVs (now rescinded – we’ve been deluged with them), our evaluators have looked through a dozen submissions and scored them according to the likelihood that their owners are in with a chance of achieving their chosen job in a bank, fund manager, or wealth management firm […]
GUEST COMMENT: Things you should include on your CV if you’re applying for a graduate sales role in an investment bank
We’ve already covered how to assemble a CV that will get you a job in trading, but what if you want to get a job in an investment banking sales team? What should a sales CV look? Is there any real difference between a sales CV and a trading CV? No. Not much. When you […]
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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