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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 [...]
Fudging Your Resume Can Blow Your Reputation For Good, Says Veteran Recruiter
Why is it so dangerous to embellish information on your resume? Because if you get caught, “It calls into question everything about you,” says Richard Lipstein, a Boyden Global Executive Search managing director. This is now something Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson knows only too well. After a shareholder discovered that Thompson doesn’t hold the computer [...]
Is Your Resume Getting Read By Robots Instead of Humans?
Recruiters report that due to the overwhelming supply of talent today, desperate job seekers are flooding every position—but that 50 percent or more of applicants are unqualified for the position to which they are applying. To save companies time and money, the hiring process has become largely automated. Almost all Fortune 500 companies and nearly [...]
What happens when your resume sends the wrong message
Mixed messages in resumes usually derive from the writer’s own mind set and that rule applies to investment bankers, fund managers, private bankers, traders of any age or nationality. From my experience, I find there are usually two mind sets which create mixed messages: superhero and scarecrow. What are these and how can they be resolved? [...]
Five Ways to Refine Your Resume If You Want to Get into an M&A Boutique
There are numerous reasons why you might want to work for an M&A boutique. First, they’re still hiring actively. Second, they offer excellent experience if you’re junior, with full exposure to the client and deal process on offer from the start. And third, if you’re a more senior banker, a boutique can be a great [...]
Do you genuinely want to get a new job? Here are seven tips you should try
If you have been sending out applications and resumes and getting no response, you may be feeling annoyed. Worse: you may be feeling apathetic. Don’t. And don’t be. As John Lees, career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You’ll Love, explains in this particular Harvard Business Review podcast, job seekers tend to attribute [...]
How many applications must you make before you get a job?
Last week in the UK, the news reported on a case of a visually impaired man who finally found a job after making 2,000 applications. Stephen Stubbs had reportedly considered himself unemployable and was delighted and astonished to discover this was not to be the case after all. “If I can do it, anyone can do it [...]
Inside a great financial services cover letter
You have a great resume, but if you ever want it read, you need an introduction that has impact, and that means a great cover letter that separates you from the rest of the pack. With the financial services sector having experienced such a drastic reduction in force in recent years, the competition for jobs [...]
The Perfect Private Equity Resume
What should you have on your resume if you want a job in private equity? An equally valid question is what should you not have on your resume if you want a job in private equity? And that answer is too much detail: it’s not your autobiography – keep it simple, brief and relevant. You need to [...]
How to rework your resume for roles outside the financial services industry
In the current environment, there are over 200,000 fewer jobs in the financial services sector than there were one year ago. Therefore, many of you may be thinking of broadening your job search so that it’s not restricted to the financial markets. If so, it is advisable to bear the following points in mind. 1. [...]
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