How To Avoid Common Finance Resume Mistakes
Posted by Finance Business English at March 5th, 2013
Finance Business English has been seeing a lot of common mistakes while editing resumes recently. Most of these problems stem from a cramming mentality. Candidates want to squeeze everything onto their resume out of fear that they’ll be at a disadvantage if other candidates have longer resumes and list more experiences and activities. [...]
Category: Resumes and Cover Letters
Finance Cover Letter Tips
Posted by Finance Business English at February 18th, 2013
You shouldn’t spend too much time worrying about how to write your finance cover letter, as it’s far less important than your resume. Sending a detailed cover letter to a bulge bracket bank can be a gamble, and is generally a waste of time anyway because it will probably be ignored. Big [...]
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Finance English Vocabulary: Bay Street, Canada’s Wall Street
Posted by Finance Business English at January 14th, 2013
Everybody knows what Wall Street is, but “Bay Street” might be new vocabulary for a lot of non-native English speaking students. A Finance Business English student was confused by the following headline while studying the global energy market: “BAY STREET: Weak Commodities Set to Punish Company Profits” In this article [...]
Category: Finance English Tips and Vocabulary
Easy to Study Finance Vocabulary Video with English and Chinese Subtitles
Posted by Finance Business English at October 9th, 2012
The Crisis of Credit by Jonathan Jarvis is a great video to familiarize yourself with some key financial concepts. The video is very simple and clearly explains the infamous credit crisis which began in 2007. This version is especially useful for Chinese students, but has English subtitles for other non-native English speakers. [...]
Category: Finance English Tips and Vocabulary
Computer Skills on Your Finance Resume? It’s Not the 1990s Anymore
Posted by Finance Business English at September 28th, 2012
When students write the first draft of their resumes and send them to Finance Business English to edit, I notice that they almost always list extremely basic computer skills at the bottom of their resume. Below are some examples of what our resume editing service has been seeing on students’ resumes recently: [...]
Category: Resumes and Cover Letters
Will You Fail Your Trading Interview Because of This English Vocabulary Mistake?
Posted by Finance Business English at September 24th, 2012
I think I get even more nervous at interviews just because I have this complex about the way I speak English, just because it’s my second language. Even though people can’t pick up an accent when I speak English, I do feel more comfortable speaking French. I was a little bit worried that it made [...]
The Most Famous Investment Banking Metaphor Ever
Posted by Finance Business English at August 18th, 2012
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. – Matt Taibi, The Great American Bubble Machine In his 2009 magazine [...]
Category: Finance English Tips and Vocabulary
Hedge Fund Supercapitalists
Posted by Finance Business English at August 18th, 2012
Watching financial movies is a productive and fun way to get an idea of the type of language you can expect to be using when you start your career in international finance. Supercapitalist has already been released in America, and will be premiered in Hong Kong in October 2012. Watch this movie and [...]
The Worst Cover Letter in History
Posted by Finance Business English at August 18th, 2012
An NYU undergraduate named Mark gave us a textbook example of how NOT to write a cover letter. Mark’s atrocious application to JPMorgan not only extinguished his dreams of becoming an international financier but also made him look like a fool. The most comical part of Mark’s cover letter? “I am [...]
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Student’s Question – How Do Hedge Funds Execute Their Trades?
Posted by Finance Business English at August 18th, 2012
Below is a question a student from Moscow had for Finance Business English as he prepared to start working in the prop trading industry: Question: Hi Lee, I’m wondering, have you ever seen book or article about “How hedge/investment funds get/dump their position?”. For example, fund want to buy big volume of a [...]
Category: Finance English Tips and Vocabulary