INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CAREERS

On Monday 8th October, two high-flying EDHEC graduates currently working in leading investment banks in London visited the School's campus in Nice, to share their insights into London's finance sector. This event devoted to Careers in Investment Banking was hosted by the two alumni to explain the functioning of Investment banks in the UK and describe how they organise their recruitment around highly specific tests and interviews conducted in their assessment centres. 

David Eline  (Class of 1996) Executive Director at Calyon; Hedge Fund Structured Credit Sales presented the London finance markets and his experience in the City. Calyon is Credit Agricole's key account international corporate and investment banking entity. Its main areas of activity are capital markets, investment banking, financing activities and private banking.

Emeric Hudault (Class of 2004) currently an Associate, Leveraged Finance Origination at MIZUHO Corporate Bank; Ltd. represented Mizuho, a Japanese bank belonging to the Mizuho financial group. It was founded in 2002 following the merger between Dai Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. His insights into the different sectors (trading, sales, structuring, quantitative research) were clear and informative and of particular interest to the students of the MSc in Risk and Asset Management.

In order for students to get the most out of the afternoon the EDHEC careers centre team had added extra company information on the School's e-learning platform and encouraged the students to practice the recruitment tests available in the Careers Service.

The lecture hall was full as students from the two Master of Science programmes were keen to learn more about the application form process, recruitment interviews, and more generally to clue up on the many legends and dreams conjured up by the City! It is expected that with the opening of EDHEC's two new Finance related Master's programmes in 2008, even more new career openings will become available to graduates.

THE FINANCE RECRUITMENT FAIR
15th October 2007

The Finance Recruitment Fair has been organised to enable EDHEC students to meet representatives from London-based investment banks, French banks and business organisations. Each company presents their activities in the field of international finance, and their career and recruitment opportunities. It also gives students a more personal contact with staff members, allowing time for one on one discussions, presentation of CVs and explanations of career plans.

Leading international financial institutions that participated in the event include:
Fidelity  International 
ABN Amro
Dresdner Kleinwort
ICAP from London
RBC Dexia Investor Services Bank
Swift from Luxemburg  

French companies taking part included:
Crédit Agricole SA
BNP Paribas
Société Générale
Oddo & Cie
Euler Hermes Sfac.

OTHER RECRUITMENT EVENTS

Other events taking place during the week are company presentations of L'Oreal and Danone where some of the students in last year's MSc in Marketing are currently doing Internships in Product Management.

This series of careers events is the first in a long list of measures the School takes each year to facilitate students' and graduates' entry into professional life.

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EDHEC's career service
handled 14000 internship offers and 17000 job offers in 2006/07,
20% of which concerned international jobs.

Read more about the services provided by EDHEC's Careers Service.