Career Advice

It's no secret that keeping up appearances -- e.g. arriving clean-shaven and well-dressed for interviews -- is critical to success in a job hunt. However, what about the features out of your control?

Searching for a new job? Consider an app to simplify the ordeal. Many are free to use via your mobile phone and leave little room for excuses for not conducting your search

Wall Street bonuses are set to shrink by an average of 20% to 30% from last year, with even steeper declines for bond traders, according to a widely watched compensation survey.

Banks are quietly letting it be known that staff who volunteer for redundancy will get better terms than those who are forced out, according to headhunters. Managers are telling their teams that those who go in the first round of cuts are most likely to get the best deal.

Business schools are growing increasingly creative in their offerings as they look to offset declining interest in traditional M.B.A.s, focusing efforts on one-year programs for recent graduates, and in the case of George Washington University, degrees for professional athletes and others in the public eye.

A new book seeks to dispel common myths about how people can move forward in their career.

Regional banks like KeyCorp, Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, SunTrust Banks Inc. in Atlanta and U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis, have been adding bankers for stock, bond and loan offerings, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Networking is a critical part of any job hunt, yet it's probably the easiest thing to get wrong. Knowing a few etiquette guidelines can help you keep your conduct aboveboard, and perhaps ease a few fears about putting yourself in front of the well-connected.

Outside the gilded confines of charity dinners in New York, bankers wonder if the industry is entering its own Great Depression. Third quarter results so far suggest that the money machine has stopped for good.

What harm can a few incompetent employees cause? A lot more than you may think.