Financial Leadership: "Are you a mentor?"

November 13, 2008

PHILADELPHIA – Yesterday, I was flying to Philadelphia and reading the latest issue of “Success” magazine on the plane (Dec ’08). Several different, unrelated articles caught my eye, primarily because of a common thread running through each one.  The magazine issue itself did not have a theme, per se, but I spotted one.  It lunged [...]

Read the full article →

New Stock Market Terms

October 10, 2008

NEW YORK CITY – A friend of mine from NYC has just sent me these updated financial terms.  The ones for Value Investing and Bull Market are a sad commentary.  Sad but true. CEO — Chief Embezzlement Officer CFO — Corporate Fraud Officer BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake [...]

Read the full article →

Is "Political Leadership" an Oxymoron?

October 8, 2008

ATLANTA – Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve seen, heard, and felt the torrential media bombardment about the so-called Wall Street bailout. It has dominated the news for several weeks.  Maybe you’ve felt the sting of the financial crisis in your pocketbook.  I hope not. Anyway, there’s a burr under my saddle about this [...]

Read the full article →

Executive Search for Finance

May 24, 2008

What We Do … At Finance Recruiter.com (a division of MCM Executive Search, Inc.), we specialize in contingency-based finance and accounting searches.  We are in constant contact with the industry’s best players, and we speak their language and offer them the best career opportunities. Call us today at (678) 749-7075 and let us show you [...]

Read the full article →

Rick Houcek: "How Many Tools Are On Your Peg Board?"

May 22, 2008

ATLANTA – On Saturday, I was listening to "Costas On The Radio" the weekly program of one of my all-time favorite sportscasters, Bob Costas, who has now ventured into non-sports broadcasting. He was interviewing Darrell Hammond, long-time cast member of Saturday Night Live. Costas asked Hammond a thought-provoking question that — as I thought about [...]

Read the full article →

Financial Sales Interview Question

September 18, 2007

A friend of mine is interviewing for a new financial sales job.  Today he received the following instructions for his upcoming financial sales interview: Instructions to Candidates for Financial Sales Interview Assignment:  Select a product or service you know well or have sold before.  The product need not be related to our financial product or [...]

Read the full article →

From The Career Blogs

September 12, 2007
Read the full article →

Social Networking Hits Finance World

March 8, 2007

Big news for fans of social networks like MySpace and Linked-In: Reuters will launch a social networking site in 2007, and the Reuters version of MySpace will target fund managers, traders and analysts. Reuters plans to lure its 70,000 paying subscribers to its messaging service on the social networking site. Reuters’ site will be a [...]

Read the full article →

Finance Recruiter

September 22, 2006

This website will be geared towards assisting finance and accounting professionals work with a executive management finance recruiter.

Read the full article →

Next Entries →