The current complex global financial landscape, including events like Silicon Valley Bankโs collapse, has highlighted the significance of risk management talent in ensuring the stability, resilience, and longevity of businesses.It has never been more critical to have the right risk management talent in place. As global markets become further interlinked, the nature of financ...
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Risk on the Rise: Mastering the risk talent market
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How Mistakes in Hiring Can Cost Millions
about 2 months ago5 key takeaways from Dallas Managing Director Oliver Cooke on getting hiring wrong in risk management.Whatโs harder than retaining talent in financial services? Finding it in the first place. There is a growing need for a diverse, skilled workforce, but identifying and acquiring those workers can be a difficult task. On September 19, our very own Oliver Cooke sat down wit...
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The Future of AI in Risk Management Services
4 months agoThe landscape of risk management is undergoing rapid transformation, with artificial intelligence (AI) being at the forefront of this change. From financial risk management to project risk management, AI's growing influence can be observed across the entire risk management framework.The AI Revolution in Risk Management ServicesAlgorithmic TradingAlgorithmic trading, underpin...
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The Most Important Soft Skills to Look for When Hiring
5 months agoIn today's dynamic and collaborative work environments, technical skills alone are not sufficient to ensure success. Soft skills, which encompass a range of interpersonal, communication, and behavioral attributes, play a vital role in driving productivity, fostering teamwork, and promoting organizational growth. In this article, we explore the most important soft skills to l...
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Europe: The Future of Risk Management
8 months agoโThe Risk Management space is facing a particularly complex hiring landscape due to unpredictable global markets, rising inflation, a cost-of-living crisis, remote working and changing regulations and policies amongst financial institutions.Despite these challenges, there is still strong demand for top talent. Moves during bonus season, and a push towards enhanced diversity ...
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The Future of Risk Management
about 1 year agoGrowth and evolution best describe the current state of financial services in the US right now. From the development of secondary financial hubs outside of metropolitan cities like New York, to smaller companies like fintechs and startups offering competitive compensation and benefits packages, firms big and small find themselves competing for top talent. So much so tha...
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The risk management landscape: industry & hiring trends
over 1 year agoThe complexity of todayโs business landscape, from a global pandemic, supply chain disruptions, cyber attacks, to name but a few, are some of the main contributors to organizational risk exposure. But, with great complexity opportunities abound; and they are certainly exuberant for risk management professionals who are in higher demand than ever before. Our specialist risk m...
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Recruitment Landscape: Risk Management
about 2 years agoโThis year, hiring trends across the Risk Management market have undoubtedly been the most active that weโve witnessed since the immediate uptick post financial crisis. Larger financial institutions, Bulge Bracket Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and FinTechs alike have been proactively hiring within Risk Management since March 2021, and it has created a highly competitiv...
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Buy-Side Risk & Analytics Recruitment Market Update
over 2 years agoLooking forward in 2021, the Selby Jennings Risk Management Recruitment team believes that both the interview and onboarding processes for talent will remain consistent with what has been seen in the last 12 months. In particular, the biggest challenges that clients are anticipated to face navigating talent acquisition this year are not related the virtual work environment; ...
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Credit Risk: Year-End Update
almost 3 years agoAt the beginning of 2020, the consumer lending space had a promising outlook with a stable economy and steady hiring for the new year. However, due to COVID-19 and the subsequent economic volatility, hiring declined and consolidation was trending across the industry with thousands out of work and an unemployment rate that peaked at nearly 14.5%. The entire landscape of ...
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Career Advice for Risk Management Students
about 3 years agoSelby Jennings has founded a great relationship with the UConn School of Business - Financial Risk Management Program to help their students better understand the career paths and opportunities in Risk Management. Recently our specialist recruiters,Charlie Vaca, Principal Consultant - Risk and Audit Lead and Matthew Stehl, Senior Recruitment Consultant - Risk, Analytics & De...
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Risk Market Update 2020
over 3 years agoOver the last year, there have been a number of new developments within the risk management space which have led to increased demand of hiring in risk management. The explosion of consumer lending & merchant lending fintechs across the financial landscape and the growth of secondary financial hubs has driven hiring for credit risk, data science, and risk management professi...
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