France Q2 ILO unemployment rate 9.7% and prior 9.9%.
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If you want to work high finance in Europe it’s basically required you speak either French or German at a near native level (more and more places are expecting you to have some ability in both). Europe is cool, but good entry level jobs (besides English teaching) are completely inaccessible to an American who can’t speak the lingo.
Luxembourg has 200+ banks but mostly back office. There are tons of expats there. Easy to go to France/Germany/Belgium in under an hour. By train, Amsterdam is 4/5 hrs, Paris is 3hrs etc. Pretty much all front office jobs for national banks need to be done in a finance centre. France/Paris, Spain/Madrid etc. Switzerland is the best place imo for quality of life. Most banking jobs are in Zurich, lesser extent Geneva, Basel. You can exist with English only. Again, you are on the border of several countries, couldn’t be easier.
Or you can go to Taiwan and work with greats like QQQBEE and you don’t need to learn Chinese, they know English from their heart.
Any ideas on how to break into a European financial position? I am a native French speaker and I would love to work for Soc. Gen. or Credit Agri.
^ You’re better off getting laid in South beach.
ASSet_MANagement Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any ideas on how to break into a European > financial position? > > I am a native French speaker and I would love to > work for Soc. Gen. or Credit Agri. French banks are not hiring at the moment. The reason being they let go of far fewer people during the crisis. Besides, why Soc Gen and CA? They clearly lag (far) behind BNP Paribas! Well, in Investment Banking at least, not in Asset Management ^^
What do you guys think about breaking in post MBA? I just passed lvl 3, 710 GMAT, and I’m applying to INSEAD, LBS, Oxford, 3 Spanish schools (IESE, ESADE, IE) and possibly St Gallen near Zurich due to its heavy finance tilt. Obviously the top schools are a gamble but I think I am pretty competitive for 2nd tier. Ideally I’d like to learn a new language or 2 and hop scotch around to different countries (like get an MBA in Spain, then work in Switzerland, then later work in London). I’d also eventually want to return to California so I’d need either a brand name school or employer or both to help me once I return, since I imagine the alumni network would be weak on the west coast. Has anyone else thought of doing something similar?