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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During my career I’ve been part of countless technology graduate interviewing panels at banks like Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. Things have changed over the years and often candidates I speak to at campus events have no idea about what […]
Do you want to work for a Chinese bank in Hong Kong? You’d better be able to handle your liquor. I like a drink or two, and that’s helped me become successful in equity sales since I joined one of China’s […]
Back when I did my internship in London as a computer science student in the mid naughties, banks and larger hedge funds were the clear and obvious choice if you wanted to make decent money with career progression as a […]
Graduate degrees are becoming like tattoos: You should think hard before getting one. Tuition at graduate schools has been skyrocketing—for professional programs, it has jumped 60% in the last decade. In 2009, a year of grad school was $21,900 at a […]
