Progressing your banking career
May 5, 2011 Career Tips Leave a comment | Tags: Banking Career, Career
What does it take to reach starry career heights in the banking sector, like Barclay’s chief executive Bob Diamond? Ask our experts on Thursday. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Bankers might get a barrel load of bad press but it’s not stopping lots of you wanting to become one. Or so the popularity of last year’s Q&A on routes into banking suggested. Our expert panel was inundated with questions from graduates and job-hunters keen to get their foot in the financial door.
But once you’ve bagged your first banking job, what next? “You’ll achieve that sense of stature/As your influence expands/To the high financial strata,” sang Mr Banks at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank in Mary Poppins.
Find your career sweet spot – your dream job is out there!
May 5, 2011 Job Reviews Leave a comment | Tags: Career Sweet Spot, Dream Job, Job, Sweet Spot
Look for your dream job by narrowing your options to find your career sweet spot.
This is from a group coaching client, Joe, who has found a job to apply for that he didn’t even know existed. The job beautifully combines his interest in training and past work experience in manufacturing and distribution.
“The last thing I would like to share is that once you narrow down your choices, make a plan to get there, and most importantly, execute that plan, you will be amazed how quickly you find that career “sweet spot” is a reality. For me, I’m dead on the path and cultivating other opportunities in the future.”
Joe has clearly defined what he wants, and networked his way into his chosen profession. He is in his
TWU Video Shows Strength of Pa. Rally
May 4, 2011 Career News Leave a comment
Earlier this week 5,000 workers from dozens of unions marched on the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg to let Gov. Tom Corbett (R) know his budget is an attack on workers and communities. Said Gordy Moretton of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 2009:
The governor wants to make cuts to services that everyday people need. We need to stop this attack on the middle class.
Check out this TWU video for a great wrap up of the rally and click here to read more from the TWU blog.
Look Around
May 3, 2011 Career News Leave a comment
Elon Musk, head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, thinks “professional managers” lack innovativeness. Peter Drucker would have said Musk’s head is in the clouds
Perhaps if they were fueled by his own hot air, Elon Musk’s spaceships would have already reached a point “where we are exploring the stars, where we’re going to other planets, where we’re doing the great things that we read about in science fiction and in the movies,” as he has described it.
That, anyway, was my reaction after reading an interview with Musk last week in , in which the chief executive of Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”) dismissed the abilities of most of his peers to innovate and drive change.
“I’ve never really wanted to run companies,” said Musk, who also heads electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors (TSLA).