Business and Finance

2007 sees graduate starting salaries make rises in certain areas with best-paying employers being those for investment banking. Graduates entering investment banking jobs can command entry salaries of 36,000 with legal firms and business consultancies following close behind. By contrast, the lowest graduate starting salaries occur in retail and transport jobs, which often pay around 20,000.

Critical skills for investment banking jobs include:

analytical ability
excellent communication and interpersonal skills
high levels of drive and excellence
outstanding motivational skills
highly developed team work abilities and
optional foreign language fluency.

Investment banking is unique in the diversity, intellectual challenge, productivity, career opportunity, breadth and variety of teamwork and analytical content that it presents to graduates.

Hours can vary with some jobs involving long days starting at around 7am and some roles finish late. That said, work in this area is dynamic and innovative giving you plenty of challenges and scope in your career.

Online job hunting and career hunting websites have been increasing over the years. Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com are two websites that are very popular even today. One nice thing about these websites is that you can look through a huge number of jobs ranging from hundred to over thousand and also look for them near your locality.

Many of these job hunting and career hunting sites will let you look for jobs around the place you live. This can easily be done with a little help form your side. Your zip code and how much distance you are willing to travel is all you will need to enter. You can also change settings in such a way that you can choose what kind of a job you want to take up and also jobs that are related to a certain industry. You can also look through these websites without having to create an account most of the times. However, if you want to apply for any sort of job you will need to register here. Many of the job hunting and career hunting websites are free to use most of the times. Continue Reading »