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Networking Begins at Home
Networking is hard work. It requires consistency, even when you’re in a secure position, strategizing and out-of-the-box thinking. For example, most people overlook one of the most important networking avenues we have: our families. “Many young people don’t leverage their parents,” says Lorne Epstein, a D.C.-based recruiter, career counselor and author of You’re Hired. “Your parents [...]
Making sure you are a perfect fit
Demand is strong for the best talent, though it remains an extremely competitive market for senior financial executives because some companies are upgrading the roles of CFOs and other senior finance positions. Companies need exceptional leaders to help navigate the firm into the future. And they know the importance of hiring “smart” and what can happen when [...]
Learning how to work the corporate culture
Whether it’s a global bank or small private equity firm, every place has its own distinct corporate culture. It’s hard to describe in words, but everyone can immediately tell you about the feel of their workplace. It’s not uncommon for people to say that a trading environment demands aggressive personalities and a thick skin. If [...]
What employers want from you in an interview
It’s the most stressful part of the job seeking process: the interview. When you are fortunate enough to have your job search reach that level, there is at last a face to contend with. To help you succeed in the tete-a-tete, understanding what goes through the interviewer’s mind may help you land that next position. [...]
Some Strategic Advice to Help Wealth Managers Grow Their Business
One thing wealth managers can never get enough of is help on growing their business, primarily because they are often paid based on the amount of assets they bring in that can generate fees. The latest advice comes from Pershing, which is a Bank of New York Mellon company, and it focuses on how financial [...]
How to Handle Multiple Job Offers
Here’s a great problem to have, especially these days – more than one job offer. As great as this sounds, it’s important to handle the negotiations carefully, and they can be a tightrope walk. The position you take needs to be determined by more than money. Consider the tenor of the interview and subsequent phone conversations [...]
10 tips for getting hired when nobody seems to be hiring
For anyone who has been searching for a financial job for more than a few weeks, the dreary and continued drain on time, effort, energy and spirit make it sometimes difficult to stay with it. You begin to wonder if you’ll ever get a job. Is anyone even hiring? To break the spell, there are [...]
How to get over your lack of experience and land your first job
While hiring has perked up over the past year, it’s still the old Catch-22 for the business grad: can’t get a job without experience, can’t get experience without a job. “As more companies invest in summer internship programs then leverage those interns for full-time positions, it leaves fewer entry-level opportunities for recent college job seekers,” [...]
Profiting from Performance Review
Formalized performance reviews are quite common in financial services. Whether you are working at a large bank, investment bank or private equity firm, the feedback that comes during the performance review process can be critical to your career success at your current employer and beyond, says Teresa Bur, vice president of human resources at CBIZ, [...]
Still Getting Nowhere After Sending Out 300 Job Applications?
I have a friend who was a junior equities trader. He joined the bank straight out of college, worked there for a few years and was laid off. Four months later, we spoke and he mentioned to me that he’d submitted more than 300 job applications. I didn’t totally believe this and asked him to [...]
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