Choosing Employers
Key considerations in evaluating potential employers.
Choosing Employers
Key considerations in choosing employers.
Key considerations in choosing employers.
Are Top Employees Assets or Liabilities?
How firms treat their staff, particularly their best performers, in difficult times tells a lot. Are top employees treated as important assets to be retained in anticipation of the next business upturn? Or, are they liabilities to be cut as a short-term cost-reduction measure? The answer also will indicate whether the firm is managed with a focus on long-term strategy or on short-term tactics.
How firms treat their staff, particularly their best performers, in difficult times tells a lot. Are top employees treated as important assets to be retained in anticipation of the next business upturn? Or, are they liabilities to be cut as a short-term cost-reduction measure? The answer also will indicate whether the firm is managed with a focus on long-term strategy or on short-term tactics.
Where's the Straight Talk Express?
A large and growing credibility gap between employees and their employers is indicated by studies. Large majorities of employees believe that their employers do an inadequate job of keeping them accurately informed about the state of the business. In the absence of clear communications, dealing with rumors saps productivity and distracts employees.
A large and growing credibility gap between employees and their employers is indicated by studies. Large majorities of employees believe that their employers do an inadequate job of keeping them accurately informed about the state of the business. In the absence of clear communications, dealing with rumors saps productivity and distracts employees.
Employment Guarantees
Smaller financial services companies are luring talent with employment guarantees, especially boutique investment banking firms. This is an appealing alternative in an era of massive downsizing.
Smaller financial services companies are luring talent with employment guarantees, especially boutique investment banking firms. This is an appealing alternative in an era of massive downsizing.
Finding Jobs With Flexible Hours
Finding a job with flexible hours, limited hours and/or telecommuting options is an important consideration for increasing numbers of people. The reasons can be many: childcare, eldercare, personal health reasons, personal lifestyle preferences, and length of commute. There are increasing opportunities in financial services for such flexibility.
Finding a job with flexible hours, limited hours and/or telecommuting options is an important consideration for increasing numbers of people. The reasons can be many: childcare, eldercare, personal health reasons, personal lifestyle preferences, and length of commute. There are increasing opportunities in financial services for such flexibility.
Industry Consolidation and Careers
The consolidation of the financial services industry has important ramifications for how you manage your career. Read here about the pluses and minuses of working for a large, diversified firm as opposed to a smaller, more focused competitor.
The consolidation of the financial services industry has important ramifications for how you manage your career. Read here about the pluses and minuses of working for a large, diversified firm as opposed to a smaller, more focused competitor.
Telecommuting
As telecommuting becomes a more important option within the general economy, its significance is bound to grow in the financial services industry. Because of the growing costs of traditional commuting in both time and money, more employees are seeking to telecommute.
As telecommuting becomes a more important option within the general economy, its significance is bound to grow in the financial services industry. Because of the growing costs of traditional commuting in both time and money, more employees are seeking to telecommute.