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Weeks after receiving record bonuses, mergers and acquisitions bankers saw their fees drop substantially in the first quarter of the year. According to a report from Bloomberg, investment banking fees for M&A dropped 35% in the first …

Mergers and acquisitions bankers suffered a 35 percent drop in fees during the first quarter, just weeks after cashing bonuses from a record year… Job Cuts The interest among European bankers to move to the Middle East “is considerably higher today than it was last year,” said …

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It’s every professional’s nightmare: You’re working in a great job for a well-regarded employer, then the company — seemingly overnight — suffers a crisis and is bought out or goes belly-up. Your career, which seemed golden just …

UP TO 30,000 City workers face the axe this year as the credit crunch forces financial services firms to tighten their belts, recruiters warned yesterday. “It’s going to be nasty. I think 25,000 to 30,000 jobs will be lost in London over the next eight to 12 months,” said Jeff Greene, vice …

The size of a company is often one of the greatest factors in determining work success or failure, but is rarely taken into real consideration by job seekers. Few marketers can play in all three (small, medium and large) work envi¬ronments. Most find their comfort zone by trial and error and …

The mortgage mess has had Wall Street banks cutting jobs in the greatest numbers since the tech bust of 2001, according to Bloomberg. Over the past nine months, Wall Street firms have slashed more than 34,000 jobs. “So far, Citigroup has eliminated 1.7 percent of its workforce, while Lehman has chopped …

Wall Street banks hit by mortgage losses and writedowns have cut more than 34,000 jobs in the past nine months, the most since the dot-com boom fizzled in 2001…. …“This crisis is much worse than 2001 and we don’t know how long it’s going to last,” said Jo Bennett, a partner at executive …

It’s no longer enough to come to a job interview with resume, references and job experience in hand. A growing number of employers are now studying a candidate’s credit history before making an offer… …Employers see it as a way to determine the job seeker’s character. “It tells the potential employer …

As U.S.-based businesses expand their global reach, finance chiefs with international experience are increasingly in demand. Terence Gallagher, president of New York City-based executive recruiting firm Battalia Winston International, has helped dozens of professionals broaden their experience with placements abroad. …