Getting A Job In Uk Banking
his article is an for you or go direct to financial
introduction to recruitment institutions with your
for UK banking jobs. applications.
Getting a job in banking can be a
drawn out process as recruitment Using an agency
cycles often take up to 6 months
and the top banks may look at Agencies are widely used in
hundreds of candidates for a financial recruitment
single post and go through 2 or particularly for skilled banking
more interviewing stages often in jobs as the recruitment process
addition to a competency is a labour intensive one often
assessment. If you already work comprising of weeks of processing
in banking or the finance sector under qualified or inappropriate
you may be familiar with the candidates before arriving at a
recruitment process and if you're list of high quality potential
looking for a change of career employees. The banking sector
within banking this article will more than most appreciate the
discuss briefly the best approach added value of dealing with an
to successfully finding a new agency for some or all of their
job. recruitment rather than managing
their own extensive human
Agency or direct resources based recruitment
programme.
At the start of your journey to
find a perfect banking job you Recruitment agency consultants
will usually be faced with 2 are driven to match the best
routes (although you can take candidates to the clients banking
both simultaneously). Whether you jobs, usually more so than the
should use a recruitment agency person to whom responsibility
to source suitable opportunities falls within the client
institution- often the HR agencies will only put candidates
department or busy heads of forward for positions they feel
department who may not have the they are well suited for and
required time to properly process capable of obtaining. Agencies
high volumes of applications. can also deal with the initial
contacting of the financial
For the candidate, using a institutions and get interviews
recruitment agency can also offer arranged on your behalf.
some distinct advantages over
applying directly to individual Going direct
companies in response to banking
job vacancy advertisements. An Many applicants prefer to go
agency will be working closely direct to recruiters rather than
with the banks with a range of going through a specialist
vacancies both current and recruitment agency as this allows
upcoming available. If an them to make direct contact with
advertised vacancy does not prove the companies they are applying
to be suitable your recruitment for and pick their applications
consultant will often be able to based on job vacancies posted by
recommend an alternative position the banking institutions.
to apply for.
The easiest way to find job
If you have the skills and vacancies if you want to apply
experience that an agency is straight to a recruiter are to
looking for they will actively search job listings on online job
seek out new opportunities for boards, newspapers and corporate
you as they become available, websites. The downside of
this can take much of the time applying for jobs this way is the
consuming work out of applying time it can take to find
for a new job in banking as appropriate advertisements,
approach the recruiter, submit representing you in front of
applications and arrange potential employers- if an agent
interviews often based on limited expects you to lie about your
information about the position skills or experience on a CV its
you are applying for. unlikely they're working for your
best interests.
Choosing an agency
Writing a CV
If you choose to use an agency to
find you a new job in banking it The CV is a critical part of
is important to approach an successfully applying for banking
agency who understand the unique jobs as its all an employer has
and often specialist nature of to go on when deciding whether or
the banking industry and have not to invite you to interview.
direct relationships with the As the people up against you for
banks themselves. Banks will banking jobs are going to have
often not deal with recruitment often very similar skills and
agencies whom they do not have a experience due to the nature of
working relationship with due to the industry your CV has to not
their HR procedures. So make sure only be watertight in terms of
the agency representing you are the information it gets across
talking to the banks or financial but also make you stand out from
institutions directly and are on a crowd of other financial
their preferred suppliers lists. experts. Banking is still a
formal institution and you resume
The main advantage of an agency should reflect this, but some
is having an agent working on creativity will help to show your
your behalf so make sure you get character and the effort you've
on with your agent and you feel put into your application- think
comfortable with them about ways of presenting your CV
with a unique personal touch, if an interview but most of these
you're photogenic a picture of are common sense things about the
yourself is often a good start way you want to present yourself.
(don't forget to smile!). The best advice ultimately is
make sure you do yourself
Again a recruitment agent should justice, listen to the
be able to help you get your CV interviewers and think about the
up to a standard where they are sort of things they want to hear
confident it will be acceptable from you. They want to find out
by the banks and financial about your personality and
institutions whom will be character as much as anything
recruiting. There are lots of else so show you are a person
template CV's and CV writing they'd like to work with.
advice available online by
searching for 'banking job CV'. Again a Google search for
'interview tips' will give you
The interview plenty of helpful advice and a
recruitment agent will also help
Interview skills are a subject in to prep you before setting you up
their own right and beyond the with interviews.
scope of this article. There's a
lot of things to remember you Good luck finding your dream job
should and shouldn't be doing in in banking.
About the Author:
Commercial Finance People are a specialist financial recruitment agency specialising in banking jobs and asset finance jobs in the UK and worldwide.
Read more articles by: John McElborough
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