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General Info Our opinion is that the 2017 tech recruitment market got off to a significantly slower start because the New Year and Chinese New Year (end of January) happened to be quite close together this time. Companies seemed to prefer to wait until after CNY to kick start hiring for the year. The market has since started to pick
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HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Like the years prior to 2016, 2016 also seems to have flown away! Here is a brief update on the year 2016. Hope you find it useful. If you have feedback or comments, please do let us know. Analysis of the past year: S.No Sector 2015 vs
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO – The hiring landscape: Asia was pretty hot and the place to be in for banking tech jobs about 7-10 years back. That is not really the case now. Singapore, for instance, was then seen as the preferred off-shoring location for many of the western banks like Barclays. Now, companies are setting up tech hubs
READ MORE I was recently at a FinTech event organized by HKUST called “How FinTech will impact financial services and your career”. The speaker was Prof Henri Arslanian (visiting scholar of finance). I’ve been to many FinTech events but this one was still quite an eye-opener for me. Very informative material and and Prof Arslanian is a great presenter! Here are my top
READ MORE The technology market – Q2 2016 – In Hong Kong, the hiring for junior-mid level roles was strong. The companies actively hiring were Vendors, Insurance Firms, Brokerages, Chinese Investment Banks and some relatively smaller Commercial / Wholesale banks. The western Investment Banks have mainly been hiring in small numbers in the Contracting arena. In general, there was an overall increase
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Hope you’ve had a good first quarter of 2016. Here’s a brief update on the Hiring Market in Technology for Q1 2016
The market:
We’ve had a lot of “gloom and doom” news floating around. It is public information that many of the Investment Banks like RBS and other European banks are massively reducing their footprint in the region.
Hope you’re well and enjoying a successful and productive 2015.
We wanted to take the opportunity to keep you apprised of what is going on in the IT recruitment market.
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Hope you’re well and enjoying a successful and productive 2015.
We wanted to take the opportunity to keep you apprised of what is going on in the IT recruitment market.
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I wanted to give you a quick update on the market for Q2. Hope you find this useful! We’ve also included a career tip for jobseekers at the end of this newsletter.
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Hope you are well and have had a great start to 2015!
We wanted to take this opportunity to give you a brief update on the IT market for Q1 2015.
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Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC