Being laid off or fired, though extremely unpleasant, is very much an aspect in every professional industry. This is especially so in today’s fiercely competitive Financial Services market, where for every one employee, you have numerous potential replacements and applicants for the same position. It stands to reason that…...
Tips To Master Recruitment In A Candidate-Driven Market
Recruiting is challenging enough when employers get to control most aspects of a hire. In a Candidate-Driven industry or geographic region, the task becomes several degrees more difficult, when the pool of talented individuals qualified for a role are in low supply, with a high demand for their services.…...
“Overqualified” Applicants Often Overachieve
While established firms typically will consider only experienced applicants in their search for Financial Services employees, they often consider too much experience a negative trait. “Overqualified” candidates, they assume, will consider the position beneath them, will quickly become disillusioned with their lower station in the corporate world, and will…...
To Maximize Success, Place Financial SuperStars in Key Roles
Every team in the National Football League and Major League Baseball all would love to field superstars at every position. The same is true for Financial Services firms and Banks. Chief Lending Officers, Managing Directors and CFO’s devote countless hours devising ways to lure, hire, and retain all-star talent.…...
Fundamental Differences in Managing Financial Millennial’s
Millennials working in the financial world of today and tomorrow are not motivated by the same things that inspired their parents, and most likely, their supervisors. Obviously, younger employees are accustomed to accessing information, whether personal, social, or professional, at the click of a few keys. They also seldom…...
#1 Key to Effective On-Boarding Finance Employees
Newly hired finance employees often feel overloaded with information about their new company, its policies and procedures. Rather than bombarding new hires with paperwork, policy books and forms to compete, the most critical thing that a company can do to increase the chances for a new hire to still…...
Man vs. Machine: Financial Analysts in an Age of Automation
The ‘Man vs. Machine’ debate is as old as the discovery of wheel. However today, with the advent of modern digital technology, the debate has become increasingly heated. Hollywood has also joined in. Movies, such as Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ex-Machina, show horrendous consequences of machines making use…...
Elevate Your Finance Team For Strategic Advantage
Most companies rely on their Finance Departments for dozens of daily duties: controlling expenses, keeping an eye on overhead, investing assets, etc. Industry innovators are smart to focus on attracting finance professionals who possess skills not only in these operational duties, but in strategic leadership abilities as well. Employers who…...
