Finance Jobs

Wall Street Added 1,000 Finance Jobs in December

By Donald Sears ⋅ February 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Financial services jobs in New York NY are on the upswing according to a recent report by the New York States Department f Labor.
Wall Street lost more than 30,000 the start of the recession in December 2007, but firms are now looking for experienced executives with active client lists and a book of business, recruiters [...]

Fifth Third Bank Expanding, Hiring in Atlanta

By Donald Sears ⋅ February 4, 2010 ⋅ One comment

A growing mid-western bank is hiring and looking to increase Atlanta, GA jobs in finance. Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank is expanding in the south, especially in Georgia after its 2008 acquisition of First Horizon, said the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Fifth Third’s is adding staff at its 20 banking centers in and around Atlanta and especially [...]

Researchers ID ‘Finance Gene’

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Researchers in Germany have identified a”finance gene,” VAL, that they claim helps to produce more dopamine in certain parts of the brain and might make some people better equipped for careers in finance and investing, according to a Bloomberg News report.
The emerging science of neuroeconomics is making strides in understanding how biology affects economic decision-making but steers [...]

Comptrollers and Finance Executives Report Optimism on Hiring

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

A September survey of 864 CFOs and comptrollers shows 24 percent expect to be hiring over the next six months, according to tax and audit firm Grant Thornton. Fifty-four percent told the accounting firm they expect headcount to remain the same and 22 percent expect it to decline.
In March, the same survey found only 18 [...]

Nomura Investment Bank to Hire 600 Finance Jobs

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Japanese investment bank Nomura said today it plans to double its headcount in the U.S. from 600 to 1,200 employees by March, according to the Financial Times.
Nomura is the Tokyo-based investment bank that purchased the Asian and European assets of Lehman Brothers. The company has already hired 300 U.S. based employees since January, according to [...]

Financial-Services Jobs Growing Faster Overseas

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Financial-services firms are hiring again, but the pace is slow and many firms are building staff faster in Europe and Asia than in the U.S., employment analysts told Forbes.
The hiring areas that are hottest include risk management as well as audits and implementation for mergers and acquisitions, according to Andrew Reina of Ajilon Finance Solutions. [...]

Merrill Lynch Hiring Veteran Brokers and Rising Stars

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Merrill Lynch says it’s time to hire financial advisers and brokers again and appears to be pursuing anyone who can prove they will improve revenue, according to a report in a financial publication, Investment News.
Don Geisler, Merrill’s head of recruiting, held a conference call with external recruiters Aug. 10, in which he outlined a strategy [...]

Former Lehman Brothers Executives Fixing the Mess They Created

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Ever wonder what happened to executives from the now bankrupt investment company Lehman Brothers?
Some of them have started their own firms to focus on getting toxic assets resolved and managed, says a recent CNN Money/Fortune article.
Kevin White, a former leader of Lehman’s global structured finance group, had a hand in creating the kind of debt [...]

NY Federal Reserve and Other Green Shoots for Finance and Technology Jobs

By Donald Sears ⋅ August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The lure of big Wall Street salaries has made it hard to lure finance executives into the public sector.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) even cited its inability to attract top candidates as a reason for lax enforcement that it said contributed to the current recession, not to mention scandals like the ones that overtook [...]

Financial Jobs: Are Government Jobs for Real?

By Donald Sears ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

With all the talk of Wall Street workers turning to financial jobs in the U.S. government, a little skepticism about those jobs is brewing, according to an article on WSJ.com. Government hiring takes twice as long as it does in the private sector, and government salaries are not even close to Wall Street’s, according to the article.
And [...]

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