March 20th, 2006, 1:33 am
The jobs posted on JPM's website are mainly genuine jobs - although it's worth being aware that sometimes when a role gets filled, the hiring manager may forget to remove it from the website - or budgets change and the hiring manager is no longer interested in hiring what he or she originally advertised for.Having said that, the majority of the roles on the JPM website in London are of the back office variety (or something they're finding is difficult to attract good candidates). Nothing particularly wrong with that, but the firm has a culture of trying to promote from within. Loads of people within the firm want to be a trader, and will gladly take the role. If no suitable internal candidate exists, some roles are likely to end up going through a discreet headhunter as opposed to a very public tool like a job websiteFixed term contracts are not listed on the main JPM website - you need to be a recruitment consultant on the preferred supplier list to get hold of this listYes, the job sites dotted around the web are worth looking at, but I imagine that virtually all the big firms keep the listings of the most desirable jobs on an internal-only basis until they find they're not getting any CVs !