[London] Recruiters in financial services?

Internet is pretty good at this kind of thing I think. No, I'm not being sarcastic. Also, if he just finished studying at a London school, wouldn't he be the best prepared w/ regard to contacts to finding good leads in that specific field?

Or is he a supremely inverted couch-potato?

On November 26 2012 22:42 devon06atX wrote: Internet is pretty good at this kind of thing I think. No, I'm not being sarcastic. Also, if he just finished studying at a London school, wouldn't he be the best prepared w/ regard to contacts to finding good leads in that specific field? Or is he a supremely inverted couch-potato?

The contacts LSE have would be so much better than anything anyone is going to do for him on here

hmmm what do you think? that he sits on his ass while i make posts like that?

anyway that's great guys, you helped a lot, he didnt think of using his contacts from LSE, no he didnt, you guys so brilliant, i mean IQ scale should be rescaled cause of you two ;D

Well to be honest I don't think we were being rude so theres no need to be back. I mean perhaps we should have just said nothing. But short of someone in here being or knowing some really high up in a firm and be willing to do a huge favour for a friend of someone he doesnt know I dont know what you expected. if he got a good degree from lse that he needs he should be able to get interviews where he applies.

4 of my friends graduated last year all from durham all with 2:1's so assuming your friend got a 2:1 also then its better from LSE than durham. All 4 of them got jobs in finance within 2 months of graduating by just going on the websites and applying. Hope this helps.

I work for RBS in investment banking - Grad scheme is currently open (For roles starting sept next year)

various other roles open also on the site - If he's any good easily walk into any of these.

On November 27 2012 05:19 MadeInPolanD wrote: hmmm what do you think? that he sits on his ass while i make posts like that? anyway that's great guys, you helped a lot, he didnt think of using his contacts from LSE, no he didnt, you guys so brilliant, i mean IQ scale should be rescaled cause of you two ;D

Wow, you got pretty emo. And I literally wasn't trying to be a smart-ass, was simply stating the obvious. Anyways, good luck to your friend.

On November 27 2012 15:28 SoC wrote: I work for RBS in investment banking - Grad scheme is currently open (For roles starting sept next year) various other roles open also on the site - If he's any good easily walk into any of these.

Thx, forwarded that to my friend

On November 27 2012 07:32 KeyleK_uk wrote: Well to be honest I don't think we were being rude so theres no need to be back. I mean perhaps we should have just said nothing. But short of someone in here being or knowing some really high up in a firm and be willing to do a huge favour for a friend of someone he doesnt know I dont know what you expected. if he got a good degree from lse that he needs he should be able to get interviews where he applies.

he is qualified, so its not a huge favour. what i expected was posts from people that can help, like SoC.

On November 27 2012 07:37 KeyleK_uk wrote: 4 of my friends graduated last year all from durham all with 2:1's so assuming your friend got a 2:1 also then its better from LSE than durham. All 4 of them got jobs in finance within 2 months of graduating by just going on the websites and applying. Hope this helps.

well i guess now its different then last year

On November 27 2012 16:39 devon06atX wrote: Show nested quote + On November 27 2012 05:19 MadeInPolanD wrote: hmmm what do you think? that he sits on his ass while i make posts like that? anyway that's great guys, you helped a lot, he didnt think of using his contacts from LSE, no he didnt, you guys so brilliant, i mean IQ scale should be rescaled cause of you two ;D Wow, you got pretty emo. And I literally wasn't trying to be a smart-ass, was simply stating the obvious. Anyways, good luck to your friend.

hey, the sky is blue, start writting it in every topic from now on, thx!

haha :D
nice ;d

tho why does it suggest that we make food in toilet for ppl in GB i dunno ;D:D

On November 28 2012 07:44 MadeInPolanD wrote: tho why does it suggest that we make food in toilet for ppl in GB i dunno ;D:D

<Insert a joke about food being worse than the weather in UK>

Anyway....

Thanks for replies guys, but seriously I have a masters degree from LSE, you guys should give me a bit more credit I do know how you go around looking for a job in financial services, the thing is that I was not successful applying for grad schemes etc and am no longer eligible to use my university's careers services.

Was actually quite close to landing a job at Goldman, JP Morgan and BarCap, but in the end didnt get any offers after the last round. Since then I had a hard time even getting interviews, despite large number of applications that I sent.

What I am looking for now is a direct contact with a decent recruiter or name of a good recruitment agency. A good recruiter can help a lot with a job search, but so far I had the luck of only finding one like that.

I doubt anyone will have such contacts here or be willing to share them. I did not ask MadeInPoland to create this thread. He has just seen my post on FB and took the effort to post that here, so I decided I might as well come and add something to the thread.

Cool Eo, best of luck to you. And nice of poland to help ya out. you'll be fine w/ those credentials i'm sure