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City employers struggling to attract talent.
Four out of ten City employers are finding it hard to attract talent. In fact, one in five of them are finding attraction more difficult than this time last year, despite the current turmoil in the job market and the headline-grabbing redundancies seen in the last twelve months - according to our latest workplace study ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’. Read more »
City prepares for growth in eye of the crisis.
According to the results from our latest workplace study, ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’, almost three quarters (70%) of banking and financial services companies are using the current period of economic crisis as an opportunity to restructure their organisation. Read more »
Challenging market set to continue for operations professionals
As the fall out from the credit crisis continues many investment banks are being forced to rein in expenditure. These cost cutting exercises have meant a tightening of belts on expenses, and more applicable to the recruitment market, redundancies, restructuring and reductions in pay rates for temporary members of staff. Read more »
A market shift for accounting and finance professionals
The market has shifted considerably since 2007 - candidates are just not able to control the recruitment process in the same way as before. There have been no significant changes since the last quarter and the main areas of recruitment remain in product, risk, and regulation. Read more »
Shoots of optimism for M&A
The icy winds gusting through the M&A market have been compared to a ‘mild ice age’ by Merrill Lynch’s Head of European M&A, Carlo Calabria. Read more »
A brighter future for compliance, risk and regulation
Q2 has seen the proverbial rollercoaster as job releases saw peaks and troughs from week to week. Read more »
Toughing it out in the City
Tough times - but not as bad as the media makes out.
Trying to get senior City figures to comment on the jobs market in financial services isn’t easy at the moment. And are you surprised? It would take a brave HR Director to predict the employment trends over the coming months - and those we spoke to preferred to keep their views to themselves… or at least off the record. Read more »
Recession – and are we nearly there yet?
With consumer confidence at its lowest levels for more than 30 years, are we actually in recession and what does this really mean? We asked three prominent economists for their views. Read more »