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Oxbridge, economics and a private education: What you really need to get in...
Investment banking has a reputation for being elitist, but it’s the private equity and asset management sectors that tend to employ private-educated Oxbridge graduates in the UK, and progress them up...
View Article100 noms à connaître si vous cherchez un poste chez Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,...
Pour trouver un nouveau poste dans le secteur bancaire, plusieurs options s’offrent à vous : vous pouvez envoyer votre candidature aux recruteurs, postuler directement, essayer les candidatures...
View ArticleWhat’s the minimum score you can get on CFA Level I, and still pass?
Yesterday was CFA results day. As ever, only a minority of people passed the exams – 43% passed Level I to be specific, which was at least higher than the 38% who passed in June. The CFA Institute,...
View ArticleWhat a banker can learn from a fire chief, by a fire chief
Long hours, being available 24/7, dealing with hours of the mundane interrupted by moments of pure heroism… it’s almost the job description for a firefighter and arguably very apt for banking. When I...
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The ridiculously formal way MBAs learn the casual art of conversation
Conversation is supposed to be more art than science, but it seems the future kings of industry aren’t taking any chances. The below worksheet is handed out to MBA students by one of the top business...
View ArticleEin Abgesang auf den Bonus: Was die Deutsche Bank-Ergebnisse für die...
Schon vor einer Woche musste Deutsche Bank Co-Chef Anshu Jain ein rabenschwarzes Schlussquartal in 2013 verkünden. So verzeichnete der Konzern einen Vorsteuerverlust von 1,2 Mrd. Euro. Im Gesamtjahr...
View ArticleSemi-impoverished Deutsche bankers say Barclays’ layoffs aren’t so bad
Deutsche Bank and Barclays have some similarities. Both are big fixed income currencies and commodity (FICC) houses. Both have witnessed a senior FICC banker rise up and take over the entire...
View ArticleWhere to next for Singapore’s hard commodity traders?
Regional banks, Asian commodity firms and derivatives operations are mopping up newly unemployed physical commodities traders who have been left without jobs after the big international banks starting...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Saturdays off at Citi, which plans to hire 2,500 people
Overworked junior members of Citi’s IBD business who are preparing to work all today, all tomorrow, and all Saturday have been given some very good news: this is the last week they’ll need to do that....
View ArticleDie sieben kühnsten Tricks für die Jobsuche
Bei der hohen Zahl an Bewerbern, die auf jeden Job in den Finanzdienstleistungen kommt, sollten sich Kandidaten etwas Ausgefallenes einfallen lassen. Wer dies geschickt anstellt, kann sich deutlich von...
View ArticleOliver Wyman recrute à Paris (candidats « non-créatifs » s’abstenir !)
Parmi les cabinets de conseil en stratégie leaders dans le monde – avec 1,5 mds de dollars de chiffre d’affaires et 3.000 consultants dont 1.200 dédiés à l’industrie financière – Oliver Wyman s’est...
View ArticleHow one woman escaped banking to make jam, and then came back
After a 13 year career in financial services, Deidre Critchley, senior banking services manager at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, decided to quit the City and start a jam-making enterprise. Five years...
View ArticleMeme of the moment: Quit Barclays for Nomura
If you work for Barclays and are waiting for your bonus, you have reason to feel alarmed: the bank has just announced another £330m charge for legal and regulatory costs related to the investment bank....
View ArticleThe one part of the world where investment banking is tipped to grow
Investment banks are starting to talk about expansion in the Middle East again, but it’s not in the places you might expect. While the large international firms get by with a few senior deal...
View Article‘Young Money’– timely new book details what it’s really like working on Wall...
Journalist Kevin Roose from New York Magazine has a new book out. Titled ‘Young Money.’ it follows eight (real) young bankers over the first three years of their Wall Street careers. Most of are in...
View ArticleLes 20 questions d’entretien posées par les banques aux aspirants traders et...
Les récents changements réglementaires ont rétréci le marché de l’emploi des vendeurs et des traders, le rendant encore plus compétitif qu’il ne l’était déjà. C’est pourquoi réussir l’entretien est...
View ArticleBarclays has started its 400 job cuts today
Barclays let go an unknown number of employees within its investment bank in New York this morning, a source close to the situation told eFinancialCareers.This news comes just two days after reports...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – White-collar expat jobs the most affected by Singapore’s...
Singapore’s efforts to boost the employment of locals is having the desired effect, with new government figures showing that growth in expat hires has slowed. Singapore’s Business Times reports that...
View Article« Je hais les dimanches » ou la complainte des banquiers d’investissement
À quoi ressemblent vos dimanches ? Vous faîtes la grasse matinée jusqu’à 10 heures, puis vous vous préparez un petit-déjeuner hyper-protéiné avant de faire une balade au parc puis d’aller déjeuner...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: These U.S. hedge funds are hiring in London. How to follow-up...
If you want to work for a hedge fund in London, then you should know that BlueCrest Capital Management is almost always hiring. So is Millennium Capital Partners. If neither BlueCrest nor Millennium...
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