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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. [...]
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 [...]
Nightmare for junior corporate financiers with private equity aspirations: banks are identifying and pre-emptively sacking them
There’s one thing worse than being an analyst or 1st year associate spending your every waking hour on pitchbooks, and that’s being an analyst or associate spending your every waking hour on pitchbooks whilst trying to time for interviewing with private equity funds. Recruiters working with private equity funds in London say there’s a lot [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I am not overqualified, I am over 40
When I was made redundant from my job as a middle office manager with a leading asset management company a few years ago, I didn’t envisage I’d have any problems finding an alternative position. After all, I had nearly 20 years’ experience within the investment business, many of them in a managerial and training capacity. [...]
Q&A with an anonymous senior fund manager: Is fund management really such a well paid, stress-free career:
Q: Let’s get right down to business. We’ve already heard the juicy bits of your escape from the back office – now we’d like to step into your shoes. So what do you actually do as a fund manager? How do you invest? A: It really depends. The industry encompasses so many different methods of [...]
The misguided job search tactics of the alpha male
Being an alpha male can be a good thing. Alpha males are confident, natural leaders. They’re usually intelligent. They’re analytical and they’re doers. Lloyds is so keen to turn its employees into alpha males, it’s reportedly sent them on a course titled, ‘Hunter-Gatherers in the Corporate Jungle,’ where they’ve been equipped with alpha male traits. [...]
Does Goldman Sachs need to hire some new salespeople and researchers?
Things are not what they used to be at Goldman Sachs. As we reported a few weeks ago, transformational changes are reportedly taking place there, changes which are mostly alleged to involve a big focus on electronic trading and quiet culling of superfluous salespeople and trading staff. However, a comment in Financial News today suggests [...]
Coutts is hiring. Be aware that it only wants senior people and may pay a very big base and quite a small bonus
Coutts has let it be known that it’s looking for private bankers. In today’s Financial Times, Michael Morley, chief executive of Coutts UK, elaborates on the bank’s appetite for hiring. Morley says Coutts wants ‘senior executives’ in the UK, the Middle East, Asia, Switzerland and eastern Europe. 20 senior executives have come already, says Morley. [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Advice for JP Morgan Scapegoats
First the good news: being fired from JP Morgan is far better than being fired from a less admired bank like Deutsche and if you’re one of the scapegoats for the $2 billion clusterfuss, I hope that places the advice I’m giving in the right context. Nietzsche is your friend This hasn’t destroyed you. If [...]
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 [...]
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