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Mon Dec 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM by Dennis Nicholas

Right, you’re a math whiz kid. But can you demonstrate enthusiasm for investing and the grounding it takes to fabricate models to create wealth or protect your company’s investments? That’s exactly what is expected of you when sit down for an interview process. According to an interviewer at Alliance Consulting firm, Paul Sorbera, here are some few significant questions to expect.

 

What interests you in this position?

 

Of course, people go to Wall Street to build wealth. And executives need individuals whom money is the motivating factor in some extent. These executives also expect to see how you can get fervent in relation to the markets and seek for innovative ways to build products that raise profitability. “Particularly when interrogating an entry-level candidate, there passion is critical,” Paul says. “Or else they’ll be bored in six months and exit.”

 

Describe your education

 

Mainly, if your resume has less work history experience, recruiters need to know the kind of classroom expertise you bring to prepare you for the post. Advanced degrees in physics, mathematics or electronic engineering from top schools are hot-cakes. Other professions will call for explaining. “If you’ve done an electric engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that will rest the concern,” Paul says. “However if you’ve only done BS in economics, you’ll be forced to quantify it with additional assignments in calculus or alternative theory and how it associates to derivatives.”

 

What is your personality?

 

Although your actions will show ultimately, those that will assume derivatives sales departments will need to demonstrate a stronger, further outgoing personality than those in research or trading. “Generally such candidates appear be a bit left brain, extra analytical and rational in their dialogues,” Paul says.

 

What’s your contribution to your company’s profits?

 

As a candidate you should be prepared demonstrate how your previous projects increased your firm’s outcome. “It’s an important subject for candidates with quantitative talent sets that they’ve got the product facts, but haven’t illustrated how they can transform that into creating or saving capital for their company,” says Paul.

 

Have you ever come up with a new system before?

 

Other than functioning on an existing system, enlighten how you engineered a new model or

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Mon Dec 19, 2011 at 08:59 AM by Dennis Nicholas

Have you ever experienced an injury when playing – say, your favorite sport like football? Well, if you have, you know what it means to take action in the first 48 hours. Whether you’ve pulled a muscle, injured some ligaments or sustained something more serious, the first 48 hours plays a major role in minimizing injury and speeding your recovery process.

 

The exact standard applies when confronting other forms of distress – like when you’ve lost a job.

 

We will illustrate a few steps that are not exactly complex – most individuals will take a greater part of these exploits ultimately. However, the chief principle is TIMING of these actions.

 

Award yourself consent:

 

Award yourself consent to be a bit “all over the place.”

 

It’s not strange to have a bunch of contradictory emotions: for example, feeling angry, sad, traumatized, in denial in addition to being calmed or even contented – all within the initial days of job loss. Having those mixed emotions is part of the process; hence you don’t need to worry much about the situation. It’s common.

 

Engage a support team:

 

Instead of holding back out of humiliation or disgrace, ensure you inform your close colleagues what has occurred as soon as you realize or got the information. Family, friends, colleagues and or your clients should be highlighted about your situation. Besides, that information should come directly from you, and not the Wall Street gossip.

 

Taking such steps ensures support: and all kinds of ideas, contacts, sometimes financial help and opportunities will be through your inner circles. Hence, the earlier these people get informed – the better placed they’ll be to assist you.

 

Inform your recruiters:

 

Contact one or more recruiters you know to keep them posted on your situation.

 

Don’t get concerned about updating resume/CV/ recommendations just yet or even immediately trying to reach recruiters. The point here is just to show them you’re around in case an opening comes up. If they’re ardent to meet right away or they’ll call you with what appears to be an ideal opening, then that should be the time to update your resume/CV/ recommendations. Nevertheless this should not mean you hold off making calls just becaus


 

 

Sat Dec 17, 2011 at 01:01 AM by Dennis Nicholas

As the recession continues, many corporate executives—hold by the employment jitters—are stepping up to join social networks in a jostle to build their social wealth. Popular sites such as our newly launched uRecommendMe and LinkedIn are on the rise: just a year ago, LinkedIn had little trademark profile and was regarded mostly as a platform for corporate executives trolling for official contacts as they plan their next career shift. A huge social platform such as Facebook, by distinction, has enormously attracted candidates seeking a convincing site for exciting social networking.

 

Presently, LinkedIn’s annual growth is up almost 200% in the US and it now commands above 35 million profiles— most of whom were previously working within the heavy-hit financial sector. LinkedIn is  just one of the several sites to which depression-struck executives are  going to: Xing (located in Germany) which has about 7 million members along with special Lehman Brothers graduates division, and another UK based, Meet the Boss – limits membership to C-level financial candidates, is also boasting escalating membership levels.

 

This growing trend of Web-based social networking is changing the nature of business networking, through deep implications in the direction business individuals manage their professions. Nevertheless it also promises profound transformation for social networking itself.

 

As scores of people embossed into online social networks, the distinction between business and social networking is becoming more and more indistinct. Then the question remains: whether the ethics and codes of conduct precise to the practical world will eventually clash with real-world moral values and norms. For instance, Facebook, with still the perception of a “friend” is openly entrenched in the interface, and is increasingly muddled with marketing personnel, self-promoters and professional artists. What ensues as this drift intensifies and those employing Facebook solely for career networking raid?

 

Sure, powerful economic reasons could be behind the trend. As Nan Lin a sociologist and an author of Social Capital, illustrates in his book, “People engage in communication and networking in turn to generate profits.”  Such gains are based upon influence, information, social credentials, and acknowledgment. The amassed social capital, temporarily, helps persons to increase competitive leads in the labor market because of restricted access to “resources” found on the social network sites.

 

Yet, for most– it does get really irritating when a new “friend” goes ahead and contacts you almost instantly with an improper call for a favor. Usually, it’s more prudent to go into a social networking platform as a contributor, rather than a taker, and slowly build relationships according to shared favors. In general, Web-based social networking, including its support groups plus trusted access, is run by a society of sharing, and not selling.

 

And can the crowds of gatecrashers really be seen as frien


 

 

Fri Dec 16, 2011 at 09:09 AM by Dennis Nicholas

If you’ve never gone through this situation, it could possibly be your most horrible nightmare: You’ve rehearsed and prepped the normal interview questions, done a background check on the company. But something goes south during the interview process. You then stumble. You utter something regrettable.  Your interviewer begins fidgeting. The reaction of disaster begins a downward spiral that later ends with you leaving the interview room, and tail between your legs.

 

However this situation isn’t inevitably hopeless.  A few tactics below should get the interview back on course.

 

Stop, calm down and ask

 

It’s not an offence to pause in the middle of a respond to ask the boss for feedback, according to Lilly Zhu, an ex- Morgan Stanley deputy president of investment banking. Lilly now runs Kuaguoren, a career training firm meant for Chinese professionals. “Break and say, ‘you just thought of checking and to see if you’re headed in the correct direction,’’ Lilly suggests. “This has actually been witnessed being practiced by very attentive interviewees during a recruiting process. And often interviewers are caught trying to help the candidate provide more meaningful responses.

 

Revise your respond in real time

 

According to Pennell Locey, a top consultant with Keystone Associates, Pennell urges applicants to take control of the process – particularly when they blander. “Applicants time and again let the interviewer control the interview, although there’s no problem to say ‘I understand I may have sent a wrong intuition before when I said Y. and in reality, I meant Y,’ Pennell says. “So, it’s a case in point of an expertise, experience you’d want to draw attention to, or maybe an opinion conveyed that you want mitigated, you can always go back.” But if you won’t recall of it until your way home, make use of your thank you note to correct the incident.

 

Help the interviewer help you

 

Sometimes it does get a bit difficulty to strike a rapport/bond/connection with the interviewer, ask the interviewer what they’re looking for. “Their reaction to, ‘In your view, can you illustrate your right analyst applicant?’  It could bring an opening to illustrate some experience or expertise,” Lilly says. “This builds a new platform in which you can go into the conversation. Interviews are more like opportunities to broaden relationships.”

 

Pimp your resume

 

If you’re caught stuck staggering about a section of your career that seems challenging, show an example where you have exce


 

 

Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 11:26 AM by Dennis Nicholas

A new era of strong customer engagement is here with us. Today, marketers are adjusting to innovative ways of marketing, for example social-media management; different programs to enhance advertising campaigns on television, online, and in print; including added staff with Web skills to handle the outburst of digital consumer  environment. But according to experiences, that alone won’t bring real results home.

 

To really engage customers who drive advertising is growingly becoming irrelevant, businesses should do a lot more outside the limits of conventional marketing structures. Ultimately, consumers no longer divide the link between marketing and the item for consumption—it is the product. There’s no division between marketing from their online or in-store experience—it is the experience.

 

This shift obviously brings a huge challenge: if each person is responsible for marketing, who’s blamed? Also, what does this new certainty mean for the organization and charter of the department of marketing? It’s a predicament that matches the one that surfaced a while ago, the day’s of quality movement, actually before it was finally entrenched in the fabric of overall management.

 

Fundamentally, businesses need to be marketing vehicles, with the marketing team itself assumes the role of consumer-engagement engine, in charge for instituting priorities and fueling dialogue in the whole company as it looks to design, build, manage, and revamp advanced consumer-engagement approaches.

 

As that change takes center stage, the entire marketing institution won’t be the same: a greater allocation of existing marketing undertakings to other tasks will be experienced; additional councils and unofficial alliances that organize marketing tasks across the business will be realized; stronger affiliations with outside vendors, customers, and possibly even your competitors will become evident; and a huge role for data-driven consumer insights. Today’s editorial will show some real-life instances of these kinds of adjustments.

 

Marketing’s revolutionary is being redefined on a daily basis. Though, it’s still difficult to find definitive map illustrating how business can fruitfully take the helm in the epoch of engagement, we are optimistic to help top executives—and not just salespersons— begin to draw one.

 

Pervasive marketing

 

To engage consumers every time they interact with the company— be it on the phone; responding to an e-mail, an online review, a blog post, or physically in a store—marketing must spread through the entire organization. Businesses like Zappos and Starbucks have made strong engagement as their vital source of competitive upper hand from the start; already demonstrating some of these attributes. Such


 

 

Mon Dec 05, 2011 at 11:03 AM by Dennis Nicholas

While creativity is often seen as an attribute of the privileged few, any kind of person or group can develop themselves to be creative—better still, be able to breed the breakthroughs that kindle the growth and performance of a company. In fact, findings by McKinsey research, indicate that most corporate groups, from experienced C-level managers to customer service representatives, imply that companies can employ simple techniques to enhance creative output of the workers at any level.

 

The point here is perception, actually according to one of the leading neuroscientists, Gregory Berns of Emory University, confirms it’s basically linked to creativity of human brain. To see things differently, Gregory maintains, we must shower our brains with some things it has never come across. Such novelty is fundamental since the human brain has evolved for proficiency and regularly assumes perceptional shortcuts to save energy. Forcing our brains to re-group information and move outside our usual thinking patterns we would begin to envision truly novel choices and concepts.

 

In today’s editorial, we’ll dig out a few practical procedures for CEOs or managers to apply in order to stir up deep-seated perceptions and boost creativity— both individually and with their juniors and extensive work groups. Of course, we’ve not invented these individual techniques, but we’ve discovered their joint power to help business breed different ways of taking on perennial issues—a valuable capability for any organization on the prowl for prospective game-changing progress opportunities.

 

Absorb yourself in

 

Professing innovators should open up their pre-existing thoughts. Unluckily, human mind is to our surprise skilled at supporting its entrenched ways of seeing the world while separating facts to the contrary. Sure, academic research implies that even when handed with overwhelming evidence, vast majority (including highly-educated ones) just won’t dump their deeply held views.

 

The remedy is personal experience: having firsthand experiencing and seeing something can stir people up in ways that discussions around meeting room tables can’t. As a result, it’s enormously valuable to begin creativity-building practices or idea building efforts outside the workplace, by constructing personal experiences that openly confront the members’ implicit or explicit views.

 

We’ve witnessed that by coordinating personal encounters like these, organizations predispose their staff to greater creativity. CEOs who want to begin strengthening group creative-thinking capabilities —or those of their own—we recommend practices such as:

 

ü The first practice is to have a firsthand experience of a real consumer – going through the process of buying your own services or products— just the same way a real consumer would—and document the experience.

 

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