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Morgan Stanley Wealth Management: These are the questions we’ll ask during interview, and these are the answers we want to hear
Any job interview is the perfect chance for you to sell yourself to a potential employer, but many questions give you as much opportunity to slip up as they do to shine. If you’re applying to an investment operations role, here are three types of interview questions you’ll encounter, and my guide to ensuring the [...]
US EDITOR’S TAKE: My story from September 11th 2001
It’s been 10 years since the planes came in and changed the landscape of lower Manhattan forever; 10 years since two commercial passenger airliners were turned into weapons of mass destruction by a small army of terrorists and flown into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. That attack on September 11, [...]
Want to break into and move up in operations? One senior Morgan Stanley manager tells you how
Stephen Barclay, Chartered MCSI, vice president at Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group in Glasgow gives some sound advice on best to boost your career in investment operations in Scotland. Breaking in 1) Get an internship, or at least some work experience If you have aspirations to break into an operations role, it’s perhaps not [...]
Goldman’s City staff don’t have to take new salary reductions lying down (but maybe they should)
Back in July we said that Goldman Sachs had added a clause in its contracts to UK-based bankers saying that any pay rises would be subject to review after 24 months. Now, according to Financial News, this clause has been invoked and salaries are going to be slashed. Goldman’s City employees would have been aware [...]
Lunchtime Links: An abnormally large number of financial services professionals seem too frightened to look for a new job
It’s the summer. It’s a quiet time. People are keeping their heads down. They are topping up their tans. But people are also scared: they are too timid to apply for a new job. How do we know? According to the latest monthly statistics from recruitment Morgan McKinley, which has just offered up its insights [...]
REVIEW MY CV: I am a consultant and I want to work in market risk, but London seems a little too conservative for this move
The past couple of years I have been applying / working in Market risk roles. My preference is front office roles but my London contact base is limited thus making it harder. Additionally, I find that the environment in London is more structured, less thinking outside the box like you see in the US. This [...]
Proof that you are more likely to make MD if your father was the CFO of a major bank?
It’s not often that three brothers make it to very senior positions in investment banking. In the case of Jim, Michael and John Esposito, this seems to be the case, however. As Dow Jones reported last week, Jim Esposito, 41, has just moved to London as head of the EMEA financing group at Goldman Sachs. [...]
Deconstructing the sudden equity research hiring at Nomura and Evolution
What’s going on? Last thing we heard, Nomura was said to have paid its equity research staff badly and Evolution was making a lot of equity research redundancies and had raised salaries twice to stop people leaving. Now, both places seem to be hiring. Nomura’s recruited a managing director and a vice president for its [...]
Techniques for turning around a failing interview
It happens. Sometimes interviews do not go well. Sometimes, you fail to establish a chumsome rapport with your interviewer and don’t demonstrate your tight grasp of technical issues. In such cases, it can be tempting to give up. Don’t. It’s not easy, but interviews can be turned around. Here’s how we suggest you do so. [...]
REVIEW MY CV: Is the reason I can’t find a job that I’m in Portugal, out of work, or a returning mother?
I’ve spent several weeks of applying for jobs in London and contacting executive search agencies and having had hardly any replies. I’m currently in Lisbon, and am trying to work out whether the lack of response is because I’m not in the UK or because my skills and experience are considered irrelevant. Equally, I took [...]
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