Morning Coffee: This firm is hiring 2,400 experienced finance professionals...
Morning Coffee: This firm is hiring 2,400 experienced finance professionals in the UK before June 2014 Another week, another big hiring number – and, no, it doesn’t involve JPMorgan and control jobs....
View ArticleHow to make hundreds of banking recruiters hunt you down
Don’t want to sit around waiting for recruiters to respond to your applications when they get around to it? Don’t want to live in hope that your CV will inveigle its way through automated screening...
View ArticleConfessions of a private banker: ‘This business can eat you up and suck your...
Do you have what it takes to work in private banking? Maybe you do. Or maybe you just think you do. We asked some questions of the anonymous senior private banker behind the private banking blog and...
View Article4 manières originales de séduire un recruteur pour un poste d’analyste financier
Le poste d’analyste financier en banque d’investissement s’est considérablement transformé avec la crise financière. Certains profils deviennent aujourd’hui très recherchés. Les employeurs ont un fort...
View ArticleGetting hired at a hedge fund may have just got a bit easier
Generally speaking, finding work at a hedge fund is as much about who you know as what you know. The hiring process is rather opaque, with most firms rarely ever advertising openings. Traders tap...
View ArticleFinancial services job shrinkage hits Singapore for first time in 18 months
The latest quarterly numbers from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) showed that for the first time in the last five quarters, financial services headcount fell. This was in contrast with increases...
View ArticleStruggling hedge funders may want to embrace this legal loophole
The hundreds of hedge funds that have been trailing the S&P for the better part of a year may want to take a hint from a firm that continues to pull in the double-digit returns: SAC Capital. And...
View ArticleThe small touches that will make finance recruiters love and remember you
Financial services recruiters can be a troublesome breed. Overworked, underpaid, under-appreciated, under-stimulated, over-excited and living in eternal hope that recruitment market conditions will...
View ArticleThe perceptions – and realities – of working in investment banking
Investment bankers take plenty of flak from the general public. In fact, over the last five years, it would be difficult to argue that any one occupation gets put under the microscope more often. A...
View ArticleQuestions to eliminate crazy traders. And how to answer them if you want to...
Over-ebullience can be a problem in banking. The same goes for narcissism and a mercenary attitude. Andrea Orcel famously blamed UBS’s accidental recruitment of self-interested traders as one of the...
View ArticleBuyside employees basking in the glow of not being on the sellside
If you have an opportunity to move from the sellside to the buyside, now appears as good a time as any. Sellside employees are increasingly worried about their job security and have grown tired with...
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The baaaaad news for Deutsche Bank’s fixed income traders
Don’t let it be said that Deutsche Bank hasn’t been cutting people, curbing costs and generally doing very well in these challenge times. During his presentation at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch...
View ArticlePersonalaufbau soll ungebrochen weitergehen: Deloitte schafft 329...
Die Big 4 scheinen sich auch weiterhin als Jobmotor zu betätigen. So erhöhte sich die Zahl der Mitarbeiter von Deloitte in Deutschland im abgelaufenen Geschäftsjahr 2012/13 um 6,6 Prozent auf 5315...
View ArticleDSK se lance officiellement en banque d’affaires
« Dominique Strauss-Kahn a accepté de prendre la présidence du conseil d’administration du Groupe Anatevka, désormais dénommé “Leyne, Strauss-Kahn and Partners, Compagnie Financière” (en abrégé LSK),...
View Article19 indispensable pieces of career advice from top bankers
Over the past nine months, we’ve relayed plenty of good advice from top bankers, ranging from how to set up your resume to what you should and shouldn’t be wearing as an intern. With the post-summer...
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Fixed Income-Trader der Deutschen Bank müssen sich auf schwere Zeiten einstellen
Keine Frage, die Deutsche Bank hat sich in der jüngsten Vergangenheit gut geschlagen. So kommt der Finanzriese beim Abbau von Personal und Kosten gut voran. Entsprechend „zufrieden“ mit der...
View ArticleNext, in entirely predictable knee-jerk finance hiring surges
Want a job in finance? Have some prior experience in sales and trading? Try applying to ICAP – it looks like they’ll be strengthening their risk and control functions in the style of JPMorgan. Last...
View ArticleHow one bank’s trading error reflects a whole country’s recruitment woes
Shanghai-based brokerage Everbright Securities hit the headlines in recent weeks after a massive trading error – and subsequent cover-up attempt – resulted in an $85m fine and the resignation of the...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – JPMorgan mulling $11 billion settlement
JPMorgan Chase is preparing to settle all of its outstanding mortgage securities issues for about US$11bn as part of a deal with US state and federal authorities, according to the Financial Times. The...
View ArticleThe EMEA head of recruitment at Goldman Sachs is answering your questions
Do you want to work for Goldman Sachs? Sarah Harper, Goldman’s head of recruitment for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has agreed to respond to some of your questions on graduate jobs and...
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