Why don’t financial services recruiters respond when you apply for jobs? The populist response to this common question usually involves some recruiter bashing, but I’d like to provide a different and more balanced perspective (if not a full-blooded case for […]
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“I’m on track to retire aged 34 and I don’t work in finance”
You don’t have to work in finance to retire young. Nor do you have to leave finance and work for a technology company that’s going public. I’ve never worked for either, and if I wanted I could retire aged 34. I attended […]
Why minorities want to work in tech much more than finance
If anything is certain about 2021, it’s that banks will want to hire more minorities, especially for their technology and data jobs. Unfortunately, it also seems that they will also have an uphill struggle in doing so. Correlation One, the quantitative assessment firm, surveyed […]
So you want to be a data scientist in finance?
Do you want a job in data science in the finance industry? I was originally rather contemptuous about the term, ‘data science’. If you’re a trained statistician with a postgraduate degree in statistics and an undergraduate degree in a mathematical discipline, surely working […]
Prepare for the rush of finance job-seekers when the pandemic is over
With hundreds of daily deaths still happening in New York and London, the coronavirus pandemic is not clearly not over. However, there are some tentative signs that we may be past the peak and as countries like Germany talk about easing the […]
Saving 70% of my salary: bankers on life in lockdown
When bonuses are awarded for 2020, it seems almost inevitable that they will be substantially lower than in 2019 – despite the misplaced excitement of some traders. Once, this would have induced shrieks of rage. It may still, but the reality is that COVID-19 […]
People in finance live for expensive holidays. This year that’s changed
Finance is an industry with long hours, where unexpected termination is rife. To survive, most people abide by the moto: work hard, party hard (and sometimes harder). Junior bankers in particular have mastered the art. I’ve seen people who’ve had very little sleep during […]
The actual horrors of working from home in finance
If you liked being stuck at the office all day in endless meetings, you’re going to love being stuck at home all day in endless virtual meetings. That seems to be the shared experience in Wall Street and London as the first week […]
Should you resign after two years in your finance job?
There’s one thing we all have in common as financial services professionals here in the United States. We have the highest professional voluntary job turnover out of our economic competitors. According to HealthStatus, two of the top 5 stressors we […]
Responsible investing is a rare field of finance led by women. Now it’s hot—and men want in
It was the usual setup for panelists at a finance conference talking about making smart investments. They were all the same gender. In this case, all women. That probably wasn’t surprising, considering the event was hosted by the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible […]