If you had been wondering what the balance between fear and greed was among young people today, the statistics on graduate applications to investment banks might shed some light. On the one hand, since this time last year the banks […]
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Students who discovered a back door into elite banks face reality
As Wall Street goes back to the office, it looks like the next round of graduate interviews are going to be conducted in person rather than online. That’s apparently quite a disappointment to a lot of students, because it means […]
Goldman Sachs is hiring most graduates from the ‘Harvard of China’
With Mandarin a prerequisite for deal making in North Asia, and many expats looking to relocate, the junior ranks of global investment banks in Hong Kong are increasingly dominated by bankers who’ve completed some of their education in mainland China. This trend is set […]
The tests that let graduate employers see inside your personality
If you apply for a graduate job at a Big Four firm like PWC, Deloitte or KPMG, you can expect to do a test. – But not just any test. While banks like Morgan Stanley run psychometric tests to assess […]
The problem with graduate jobs at investment banks
If you’re trying to get a graduate job at an investment bank this year, you’ll need determination. Around 60 people apply for each graduate role in the UK’s financial and professional services sector, and candidates who succeed often end up applying for hundreds of jobs. […]
Help! I’m deciding whether to work in mainland China, or work in Hong Kong
I’m graduating next year with a finance degree from the University of Hong Kong, but I haven’t yet secured a job offer, despite having good grades and two internships under my belt. I’d like to work in private wealth or […]
The graduate jobs that receive the fewest applications
If you can’t find a graduate job this year, maybe you should ‘pivot’ your application into something different? 2020-2021 is proving to be a dire year for student hiring, but some sectors are easiest to get into than others. As […]
Deutsche Bank followed HSBC in delaying graduate hiring
In another sign that COVID-19 is affecting banks’ demand for university leavers, Deutsche Bank has delayed the start date for this year’s graduate hires. Deutsche’s analysts would usually start in mid-July, but are being asked to begin on October 1st […]
Citi reassured graduate hires they’re still wanted despite virus
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, some banks cancelled graduate hiring altogether or asked students who were due to join in the summer to defer joining for a whole year. So far, there’s little sign of that happening with the crisis induced by […]
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Point72 consider remote graduate programs
2020 is not shaping up as a good year in which to launch yourself onto the job market. Nor does it look like the sort of year you might want to be doing a summer internship in preparation for starting […]