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Important ammunition for equity research professionals who think they’re...
Equity research is not a poorly paid job. According to equity research headhunters, managing director (MD)-level research professionals in ‘top tier’ banks can earn anything from £350k-£450k...
View ArticleMan who quit JPMorgan for £30k academic job returns to finance
A former JPMorgan investment banker, who was involved in a high-profile divorce from one of Germany’s richest women, has returned to the financial sector with a new private equity company. Nicolas...
View ArticleThe one sentence that makes recruiters think you’re overly desperate
It’s one of the hardest things to do: being unemployed and desperate for a job yet appearing self-assured and not overly needy. Unfortunately, pulling off the “con” is as important as it is difficult,...
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Morgan Stanley reiterates that you shouldn’t work on Wall Street for Deutsche...
Morgan Stanley’s fixed income business is not necessarily a happy place. Headhunters say bonuses there weren’t great for 2013, and after staffing-up in 2009 and 2010 to take on the world, Morgan...
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Study suggests mid-ranking bankers in Asia earn loads more than in London and...
The chart below is presented without comment. It’s from Emolument.com, the self-described ‘real-time salary data specialist’ and reflects self-reported pay data entered by 1,200 ‘front office’...
View ArticleMeet the ex-McKinsey man who now moves consultants into banks in Asia
McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company and Boston Consulting Group are busy beefing up their global headcount at rates that most banks haven’t experienced since 2007. But however expansionary the...
View ArticleL’humour, un sésame pour réussir en finance (si, si !)
Le lieu, plutôt terne, se prête peu au fou rire. C’est à des années-lumière des beaux quartiers parisiens et de La Défense, terres historiques de l’industrie des services financiers, dans un...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank disappoints senior M&A bankers. Modest man beats big banks from...
Deutsche Bank’s senior M&A bankers are gnashing their teeth and hurling their lucite tombstones this morning: they have been overlooked for promotion. Instead of plucking one of its finest M&A...
View ArticleAuch auf Jobsuche? Mit welchen Halbsatz Sie sich um jegliche Chancen bringen
Unser New Yorker-Korrespondent Beecher Tuttle hat vor seiner Zeit bei eFinancialCareers einige Jahre als Headhunter gearbeitet. Hier erzählt Tuttle von seinen Erfahrungen. Kaum etwas fällt schwerer:...
View ArticleAsset managers hike bonuses by more than 20%. People leaving anyway
Asset managers have ramped up bonuses and locked in top performing staff with greater deferrals this year, but this may not be enough to convince them to stick around. Firms have earmarked funds for...
View ArticleWie Sie ein Praktikum bei Goldman Sachs erhalten und in einen richtigen Job...
Ein Praktikum bei Goldman Sachs zu erhalten, stellt schon eine hohe Kunst dar. Doch die richtige Herausforderung besteht darin, dieses auch noch in ein Angebot für eine Einstiegsposition zu verwandeln....
View ArticleTechniques psychologiques pour convaincre votre manager d’augmenter votre bonus
À l’exception d’UBS et de Barclays, les banques d’investissement semblent jusque-là avoir été peu enclines à augmenter l’enveloppe des bonus cette année. Les banques françaises ne devraient pas faire...
View ArticleThe five questions that will convert your banking interview into a job offer
The flood gates have opened. The streets are awash with financial services employees who’ve decided they’d like a new job. According to recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, 8,300 new people were out...
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Deutsche Bank says you should get a job in European debt capital markets....
Looking for a financial services job with a big future? Try high yield and investment grade capital markets in Europe. Both are on a big growth trajectory according to analysts at Deutsche Bank....
View ArticleGroße Chancen bei kleiner Bank? Airbus will Miniinstitut zur Konzernbank...
Was will Airbus mit der Salzburg München Bank AG? Der europäische Luftfahrkonzern mit seinen 140.000 Mitarbeitern und einem Umsatz von 56,5 Mrd. Euro legt sich jetzt eine eigene Bank zu. „Durch den...
View ArticleThe 15 most hated office clichés in all of financial services
Every office job has them. Clichéd, often empty phrases that bosses and colleagues utter that make you want to pull your hair out. Financial services is no different. We got in touch with a host of...
View ArticleAnother tragic suicide from JPMorgan’s roof? Cue the conspiracy theories
Following last month’s apparent suicide of Gabriel Magee, the 39 year old JPMorgan rates technologist who fell from the roof of the bank’s office in Canary Wharf, Asian media sources are reporting that...
View ArticleWhy it’s risky to switch jobs when you’re a VP in a bank
Cast your mind back to last week, when we ran a cry for help from a VP level quant developer who was stuck in a job that seemed to offer no hope of promotion and no chance of getting a pay increase. He...
View ArticleLa phrase qui fait fuir n’importe quel recruteur
C’est l’une des gymnastiques les plus acrobatiques qui soient : être sans emploi et en quête désespérée d’un poste et, dans le même temps, apparaître sûr de soi, sans susciter la pitié....
View ArticleBehold the new Asian hotbed for contract roles in banking
If you’re looking for a back- or middle-office contract role at a big international bank, Hong Kong is fast emerging as an attractive destination. Once a backwater for budding contractors, the...
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