On lit un peu partout cette formule toute faite : « attirer les talents ». Toutes les entreprises ne peuvent pas se fournir exclusivement en « talents ». D’ailleurs, qu’est-ce qu’un talent ? Toute personne montrant un intérêt profond pour une marque, une mission, un projet, un esprit. Toute personne motivée, enthousiaste, avide de progresser, de se développer est un talent en soi. Aux entreprises ensuite, […]

Jeune manager du secteur bancaire, pour que la force soit avec toi et que tes missions réussir tu puisses, certaines armes posséder tu devras. Agilité & adaptabilité : des clés dans un contexte en mouvement Bien que galvaudé, le terme d’agilité souligne bien les enjeux auxquels sera inéluctablement confronté un jeune manager dans le secteur bancaire. De par les évolutions rapides […]

If you’re an analyst or an associate in an investment banking division (IBD), you almost certainly want to move into private equity. Given private equity funds’ notoriously long interview processes, you may even be interviewing already in preparation for a move in 2018. Be warned, however. Junior bankers who’ve already broken out into PE say the industry isn’t all that […]

Forget London, if you work in private equity in Europe today, Munich is increasingly seen as the place to be. The only trouble is that Munich private equity funds typically only employ native German speakers. It’s helpful, therefore, that a late stage venture capital investor from Munich is in the process of expanding globally – and is willing to hire […]

Asset managers are prioritising pay hikes for tech-savvy junior employees in a bid to push down overall compensation costs as they prepare for a new era of Big Data and quantitative finance amid pressure on fees and a need to aggressively cut costs. Hedge funds and asset management firms are expected to increase bonuses for their employees by an average […]

Many students want to break into investment banking, but have no finance experience and come from non-target schools. They often ask, “How do I get a finance job when they all require prior experience – which I don’t have?” It’s a chicken-or-egg issue, and students in this situation are often unable to stand out and land stellar jobs. To get […]

Investment banks are just wrapping up their 2018 graduate recruitment programmes, but private equity firms rarely follow a strict schedule when it comes to hiring juniors. Buy-side firms without grad schemes target junior bankers months into their sell-side career, and bring them on board whenever they have a need to extra resources. As a result, junior bankers have been landing […]

Global banks will step up their hiring in China following Beijing’s landmark decision last week to allow them majority stakes in joint ventures with mainland securities companies. But don’t expect the new jobs to be advertised any time soon, say recruiters. Western banks have long complained that current laws, which limit them to owning 49% of their JVs, thwart their […]

Jamie Dimon said that he never wanted to be an investment banker or a trader, he just wanted to “see a large corporation from the inside”. This, he says, is why he turned down offers from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley to work alongside Sandy Weill at American Express. Nonetheless, financial services – and large banks – are still […]

MiFID II comes into force in January next year, and if you’re a not a star equity research analyst in the senior ranks, it’s likely to bring in a new era of precarious employment prospects. Analysts have, of course, been looking for new pastures – whether that’s a comparatively safe home on the buy-side, or investor relations. Laura Ashworth, an […]