Advice - in your first 2 years in an inv bank, read everything, listen to everything, get involved in everything, learn everything, make friends with everybody but say nothing and do as your boss tells you.

<t>Unless there's a few high profile prosecutions with people going to prison, HHs are unlikely to care. Yes, they'll give the public "We take our obligations seriously" statement, but nothing will actually happen.Your CV is the HH's product. The information about you is simply too valuable to pay a...

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<t>Whenever I look around an organisation which has lots of IT, or job boards, I regularly get the message that the ability to write C++ (or Java or C# or Python etc...) is generally not that valuable in London (I'm sure DCFC will disagree) or should be offshored to a location with cheaper salaries,...

<t>Large potential risk, small chance of gain. A job is a binary thing - you can't have 84% of a jobI once had to take part in a group exercise with HR that began with a "go round the room in turn and tell everyone something that you do or don't like". After the 3rd person said they liked rugby, it ...

<r>There are programming certificates whose brand name is recognised - an example is being Oracle certified in Java, or the various Microsoft certification programs.The cost of acquiring (and retaining) the brand in both time and money can be non trivial.Brand recognition and brand perceived value a...

<t>Over the years, firms have increasingly migrated job applications to a system like Taleo. I know there are others but Taleo seems dominant.There are various websites out there saying how evil Taleo is, but they often descend into rant mode so I tend to ignore them.Has anyone got some good hard in...

Would it be terribly dull to add a pointer to a well known book on the topic ?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves

Strandi - do not even think about signing up for a course if you cannot make the lectures and you intend to just read up at home in the evenings instead. It really doesn't work

<t>What's SAA ?CFA - good if you want to be an equity analyst or fund manager. Not so great otherwiseCQF - gives you the basics of derivatives pricing, but you're not going to be a hard core quant.CAIA - haven't done it myself, but seems to be about hedge funds. Used to work in prime brokerage - one...

<t>Good way to get a foot in the door in banking as a whole, but not necessarily in the firm offering you the job.Description you've mentioned sounds like a mix of business analyst, project manager, and application support.Expect to spend a lot of time learning about the plumbing of various processe...

<t>I'm increasingly seeing roles advertised that ask for strong stakeholder management skills. Yes, buzzword bingo, but seems to be flavour of the month.My understanding is that this essentially means the ability to play the politics game within an organisation while someone else actually does the w...

<t>Cuch - I know the stuff about how engineers make things, and politicians just give worthless bulls**t, but in too many large organisations like banks, technical ability is neither particularly rewarded nor recognised by management. The ability to give good spin, claim credit for others' work and ...

<t>With the greatest sympathy for those who like me went through a formal computer science degree and painful code reviews from a colleague who wanted to show off their knowledge, I do not think that knowing the fine level details of a coding language is actually worth it in a bank. Either coding de...

<t>One of the main problems where those with a quant-ish nature get involved in prime brokerage is what assets to provide as collateral.Different lenders have different requirements as to what collateral they will accept against a cash loan, and the haircuts they apply to different asset classes. If...