Escape offshoring: Five finance-tech jobs set to stay in Singapore and Hong Kong
If you’re looking for a banking-tech job in Singapore or Hong Kong, first make sure its long-term future is secure and is not under threat from offshoring. Singapore, in particular, was until about two...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Pay for new graduates in banking rises to £100k. World’s...
This is not the time to be a managing director in an investment bank. As we noted several weeks ago, investment banks’ top ranks are being squeezed: managing directors are too populous and too...
View Article“There are more banking jobs available now than for five – or even ten – years”
2014 is hot, very hot. So say banking recruiters, who claim to be sweltering beneath the weight of a steaming job market. “The whole market has picked up,” says Logan Naidu, chief executive of...
View ArticleJunior bankers: Stressed, overworked, but loving it
Junior investment bankers may be overworked, but they’re also battle-hardened by internships, incredibly competitive and have one eye on the next career move. Despite recent depictions of young...
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HSBC’s, super-profitable, strangely-generous investment bank pays chief risk...
It seems that HSBC is in possession of one of the most profitable large investment banks in the world. It also seems that HSBC pays its risk personnel very generously. With its fourth quarter results,...
View ArticleJob Market Pulse: Credit firms thirsty for junior bankers, asset managers...
In this week’s roundup of hiring news, SocGen keeps its foot on the foreign pedal, London firms heat up growth plans and a once-shrinking private equity firm starts growing. SocGen adding equities...
View ArticleHow to get in with Anshu Jain
If you want to inveigle your way into Jamie Dimon’s inner circle, you might want to play tennis. Dimon’s most recent Christmas card showed him wielding a tennis racket and he’s said to have met his...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: @GSElevator unmasked as ex-Citi employee. Poisonous culture...
The notorious @GSElevator Twitter account is not written by a Goldman Sachs employee. It is written by John Lefevre, a 34 year-old ex-bond trader currently residing somewhere in Texas. DealBook reveals...
View ArticleThe Fed is hiring: provided you’ve got the muscles
Fancy rubbing shoulders with Janet Yellen? Enjoy working alongside shiny things? Have a very strong back and keen sense of coordination? In which case, you could be considered for the latest opening at...
View Article10 tips from the clinical psychologist teaching Goldman juniors how to live...
Like it or not, the spotlight is on the needs of 20-something banking juniors. They’re the ones who are overworked, socially isolated, sleeping in toilets, popping Adderall, and quitting banking...
View ArticleFX traders needed; they’re just not wanted
Normally when a company fires someone for cause, it looks to immediately backfill the position. That’s unless you’re talking about the foreign exchange market, where traditional logic seemingly has no...
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JPMorgan has just released a presentation on its investment bank. This is...
For those if you who don’t know, it’s JPMorgan’s annual investor day. Starting at 8.30EST, its leading lights will be standing up and opining about the future of the bank. There with them will be...
View ArticleCredit Suisse has become adept at attracting former employees back
Provided you continue to perform – and the bank doesn’t undergo a huge restructuring – it’s possible to become a ‘lifer’ in the large investment banks. Morgan Stanley offers its employees a chance to...
View ArticleBrutally honest advice for incoming and outgoing MBAs
Going to business school is a bit of a paradox. You’re working toward your future, but in many ways you’re also reentering your past. MBAs can be in danger of reverting back to a sophomoric lifestyle...
View ArticleThe one simple mistake that could crush your chances of clinching a banking...
Are you applying for banking jobs based overseas – be they in Singapore, Sydney, London or New York – and are you continually failing to get a positive (or any) response from recruiters? There may be a...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Too arrogant to work for Google? – Answer these questions....
Google and investment banks seem to be fishing from different talent pools. Yes, Google is mostly about people who are passionate about technology and banks are mostly about people who are passionate...
View ArticlePandas, Splunk and other terms that banks are looking for in IT recruits
Working in technology, particularly in investment banking, is an exercise in learning new skills. While the object-oriented programming languages like Java, C# and C++ have endured as must-have skills...
View ArticleYes, banking is still the best industry for becoming rich
With Google reportedly paying some of its developers $500k, Facebook making two new programmers monumentally wealthy and Aldi paying some of the highest graduate starting salaries in the UK, anyone...
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The best universities for attracting the interest of investment banks, fund...
If you’re a student looking for a job in the front office of an investment bank, they may consider you if you’re an arts student at a highly-ranked university, but the chances are you will have...
View ArticleSix special hires made by Goldman, Credit Suisse, Citi and Nomura in...
In theory, banks should be doing a heap of hiring now. Bonuses have been paid at U.S, and some European firms, and finance recruiters tell us they’re so busy they can barely breathe. This being the...
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