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Diary of a banking intern: “I’ve stopped bothering making any plans with...
Summer internships usually feed 70%+ of full-time recruits into banks’ graduate programmes, and now that I’m into my fourth week here I can see why. Firstly, the hours are, of course, brutal but...
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Goldman Sachs is gearing up for a hiring spree in Warsaw
Goldman is getting ready to recruit new people at all levels in Warsaw. Goldman’s Warsaw office opened around four years ago and already employs over 300 staff across technology, operations and HR....
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I’m a successful 40 year-old banker. Here’s how I stay sane
If you make it to the top of banking, you’re going to be part of the 1%. Congratulations! Except, that this comes with some downsides: success can breed envy and criticism. If you want to handle this...
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11 telltale signs that you’re about to be laid off
It’s always better to start looking for a new job while you still have one. But if you’re happy in your role and happy with your employer and happy with life in general, then it makes little sense to...
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Morning Coffee: The special summer perk at Goldman Sachs. Reasons for banking...
If you work for Goldman Sachs in London this summer, there is something you may badly want. It will not be for you to experience personally, but for you to experience vicariously through your children...
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A senior credit trader escaped from HSBC
HSBC has been busy in credit trading. Last year, it hired in Andrew Sinfield from J.P. Morgan as head of corporate credit trading in Europe. In March, it brought in Greg Sadler, a highly respected...
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Meet the 20-somethings willing to work in IBD without a salary
When you intern in an investment banking division (IBD), you’re usually paid handsomely. Admittedly, you won’t earn as much as if you intern with a tech firm, but you’ll still earn £50k ($65k+) on a...
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Even liberal arts and humanities majors can land a financial services...
Regardless of your major or educational background, sometimes you can get the foot in the door of a prestigious financial services internship by telling your story and being real about who you are. You...
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M&A recruitment is ramping up on Wall Street
What summer lull? Some people might be heading to the beach, but recruiters say the hiring of M&A bankers is continuing apace on Wall Street, with associates and vice presidents (VPs) at the top of...
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Why senior traders should want to work in Dublin, not Frankfurt
Bank of America is going to have a trading floor in Dublin. The Irish Times and Bloomberg report that the U.S. bank has passed over Frankfurt and chosen the Irish capital for its European hub after...
View ArticleI was en route to MD, but I left banking to join EY. This is why
By 2015 Nick Parkhouse had been working in banking for 17 years and had plenty to show for it. He’d made senior director at a major UK bank and he’d developed the firm’s specialty finance structured...
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Morning Coffee: The most horribly political bank to work for now. How to talk...
Goldman Sachs is supposed to be a pleasant place to work – a place where the individual is subservient to the team and political machinations are neutralized by openness and meritocracy. The reality...
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An MD who left Deutsche in March is joining Natixis in August
Who said employees of French banks spend the entirety of August lying about on the Côte d’Azur? Some will be working, although admittedly they may be doing so in London rather than in Paris. One of...
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The new men to know at Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs’ fixed income salespeople and traders are in the doghouse. After consistently under-performing rivals for much of the past year, the business that produced the likes of Lloyd Blankfein,...
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Morgan Stanley analyst joins private equity fund that always hires in July
If you’re looking for a private equity (PE) fund that will you hire you out of a investment banking division this summer, we have a suggestion: try Silver Lake, the technology investment fund with...
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Morning Coffee: The unspoken issue with successful banking careers. The...
If you’re working 70 hour weeks in banking, you probably think it’s worth it. Like the Goldman Sachs interns who dreamed only of paying off their student debts and saving for a house, you probably...
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The ten top financial services-specialist headhunting firms in London
You want a job in banking, but you don’t want to apply for it. You want to be pursued. You want to be called up by a headhunter/executive search firm which appreciates your special talents. Whose...
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Goldman Sachs in London pays 13% more than GS in Frankfurt
The German operation of Goldman Sachs – Goldman Sachs AG – just released its accounts for the 2016. If you’re among the 200 Goldman Sachs bankers facing relocation from London to Frankfurt thanks to...
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The top universities for technology jobs on Wall Street
When banks want students and graduates for their technology analyst programs on Wall Street and in U.S. finance where do they turn? Not necessarily to Silicon Valley’s favorites of the University of...
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The worst thing about the 2017 CFA exam results
Do you have your CFA exam results? Do you? Do you? Do you? If you do, you’re lucky, but may you don’t because they’re late. Not just a bit late: very late. The CFA Institute promises to send the...
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