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What to say during an interview to explain the dreaded gaps in your resume
You know they’re there. The recruiter or hiring manager knows they’re there: gaps in your resume. So how do you address the elephant in the room during a phone screening or interview, balancing the...
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Big banking skill shortages in China: these are the jobs where you can take...
Banks in China are still dealing with severe skill shortages, despite the recent economic slowdown in the country. In many important job sectors – from compliance to capital markets – they have 10 of...
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Credit Suisse or UBS: Where should you work as a banker in Asia?
Credit Suisse and UBS are battling to secure the assets of Asia’s millionaires and billionaires – and to hire the region’s best private bankers. The two firms boast the largest headcounts in Asian...
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Morning Coffee: The art of being a maverick rainmaker. The ex-Goldman banker...
If top investment bankers leave bulge brackets to escape bureaucracy (and earn more money) at boutiques, it’s no surprise that those at the top of these small advisers don’t exactly follow the rules....
View ArticleThe top 35 MBAs for getting a job in hedge funds, private equity and asset...
MBAs going into the financial sector still favour investment banking over anything else, despite the fact that the proportion of students going into banking is shrinking. However, the buy-side is an...
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2 MDs left Credit Suisse. One has ominous words about banking
What better sign of an industry in decline than the fact that people who’ve worked in it choose new roles outside the industry? This is the case with two former managing directors (MDs) at Credit...
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Eight ways you should change your approach for the final job interview
So you’ve been called in for a final job interview, meaning that you’re at the short end of the shortlist. Now is not the time to slip up. Here are some tips to prepare for a final job interview to...
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Why Lloyd Blankfein’s careers advice is wrong
Lloyd Blankfein knows a few things about life. The 61 year-old has been CEO of Goldman Sachs for ten years, the last financial crisis included. He’s raised three children and survived cancer. He’s...
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“I went to a local Chinese university but I got a job at a big US bank....
International banks in China generally have their pick of elite graduates. They can scour the ranks of leading universities globally to recruit top Chinese students looking to return home. Not all...
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How did they get that job? The seven most surprising new hires in Asian banking
The banking job market in Singapore and Hong Kong isn’t exactly booming at the moment. Banks are typically able to hire candidates who are a clear match for the job. But not always. Agency recruiters...
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Morning Coffee: Brexit negotiations going incredibly badly for London banks....
As the summer wears on and investment banks’ patience wears thin, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the British government doesn’t have much of a clue about negotiating the country’s exit from...
View ArticleThe seven deadly sins of investment banking interns
Investment banks are about to start handing out offers to their summer interns. The summer internship is most banks’ main recruitment vehicle, but this doesn’t mean all interns make the cut. If you’re...
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A Goldman Sachs rates trader just joined Capula Investment Management
Capula Investment Management just hired another trader from Goldman Sachs. Puzhong Yao, a former Goldman rates trader and vice president on Goldman’s XVA rates desk joined Capula’s London office as a...
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This ex-Morgan Stanley SVP left banking to cultivate cannabis – and has no...
Plenty of people have left huge, prestigious Wall Street banks to join an elite boutique, hedge fund, private equity shop, Big Four professional services firm or management consultant. Others former...
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How to handle an HireVue interview with an investment bank
If you’re interviewing for a graduate position with an investment bank for 2017 and you haven’t heard of HireVue, wake up. HireVue is the new, new thing. Goldman Sachs is using it this year. So is J.P....
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Asian hedge fund bonuses to shrink at least 50% as performance plummets
It’s only August, but many Asian hedge fund professionals are already facing up to the prospect of dire 2016 bonuses on the back of faltering performance in the sector. Figures from eVestment show that...
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Morning Coffee: Fear the boring summer. How to date a Goldman Sachs banker
Financial crises have a habit of festering during the dog days of summer. Lehman’s collapse had been simmering for months until it eventually toppled in September 2008 and – on a much smaller scale –...
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The best paid investment banking jobs on Wall Street
Pay on Wall Street is a fluctuating thing and so far this year the expectation is that it’ll be heading downwards. To work in M&A was to be relatively sheltered from this clamp down on variable...
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Jefferies has hired another senior Nomura researcher as it bulks up in equities
Jefferies has continued to bulk up its equity research function in London with the hire of a senior analyst from Nomura’s disbanded European equities team. Alix Turner, who was an analyst focused on...
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Nostril hair, construction noise, tech meltdowns: when video interviews go...
I’ve spent many years recruiting in major financial centres – not so many that I was hanging around a fax machine sending CVs to clients, but long enough that I used to conduct all my interviews face...
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