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Can’t move, won’t move: Most staff seek security, not a new job
With financial services jobs being jettisoned left, right and centre by the likes of Westpac and ANZ, a new report from Robert Walters has found that only 40 per cent of bank employees are prepared to shift roles. The research surveyed almost 700 professionals from the legal, accounting, engineering, mining, sales and marketing, and banking [...]
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Why it’s so important to talk to recruiters face to face; and how to go about setting up a meeting
You send your CV to a recruiter, you wait, you don’t hear back, or you only get a brief phone call or email. But what you really want is the chance to talk in detail about your career with a real-life person, perhaps over a nice coffee. Here’s our guide to making your candidacy stand [...]
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Business analysts: Having regulatory skills will help clinch you a contract
Business analysts (BAs) with regulatory-risk and compliance knowledge are in high demand in Australia as financial institutions seek more skills to help them deal with a new range of local and global regulations. Some of these include National Consumer Credit Protection, Personal Properties Securities Reform, Future of Financial Advice, and the US Foreign Account Tax [...]
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Guest Comment: Come across as too keen on financial modelling and you will always be an analyst and never clinch a client-facing role
“I want to be promoted, I’m ready for the next level, and I want to get more money.” Well, stand in line, so does everyone else. At most banking and finance firms there is a formal review process once or twice a year to assess the talent pool and to put those who are ‘ready’ at [...]
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Six significant things that your recruiter should be doing to help you find a job this year
As job seekers face up to bonus season in an uncertain employment market, recruiters are (like it or not) increasingly becoming career advisors. Because finding work is not so easy at the moment, candidates should get all the help they can from their consultants. Here’s what recruiters should be doing for you: Setting up a [...]
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Lessons for keeping your job: You do NOT want to be working for a bank’s hobby business
Piyush Gupta, chief executive officer of Singaporean bank DBS coined the phrase. Thanks to a lot of ill-thought out expansion under his predecessors, DBS had ended up with a lot of, “hobby businesses,” he explained when the bank announced its results this week. At DBS, these were especially in the UK, the US and the Middle [...]
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Guest Comment: This is not a sexy job, but it sure is a sought-after one
As we continue to see volatility in global markets, people are looking for safe options to protect what they have. But if anything happened to you, how do you secure your income or your mortgage payments? The easy answer is life insurance – one of the few financial products that increased its sales throughout the [...]
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Guest Comment: Trust me, recruiters aren’t all bad. Here’s how to find a good one
I’ve read the comments on this site and others. I am well aware of what people say. I know recruitment consultants aren’t generally trusted. But in the interests of balance I’d firstly like to explain what consultants actually do. Hopefully that will explain the difference between a good and a not so good consultant. Then I’d [...]
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Blue Horseshoe: Five terrible tricks that some recruiters like to play
It just wouldn’t be a proper start to the year without some well-intentioned resolutions of one kind or another. For many, one of these may be to get a new job. This invariably means having to deal with recruitment agents. The purpose of this post is to provide some pointers to identify sub-standard recruiters, and [...]
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Steady, steady, steady: Why there’s always work in superannuation
Overall employment growth remains steady in the Melbourne superannuation market as mergers, MySuper and self-managed funds help drive demand for jobs. Mergers and the job market Industry fund mergers – such as AustralianSuper and AGEST Super; Equipsuper and Vision Super; and First State Super and Health Super – are creating niche recruitment activity. “Superannuation funds [...]
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