Uberdoomed in Belgium

[OwlHoot]

Hard luck. Give it a few months; there’s going to be so much regulation thrown at the banks before long that things will pick up.

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

[Mich the Tester]

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

Oh bugger that just blag it.

[AlfredJPruffock]

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

I just said - I was thrown out of Barclays for swearing at a counter clerk - that was good enough to get me into a major investment bank.

Three months later - the banking sector was up in soke.

Jings !

[Mich the Tester]

I just said - I was thrown out of Barclays for swearing at a counter clerk - that was good enough to get me into a major investment bank.

Three months later - the banking sector was up in soke.

Jings !

Well as I see it companies talk a whole lot of tulipe to get you to buy their products, especially banks, so bulltulipting to sell your own services must be acceptable business practice for them.

I’m not saying you should lower yourself to lying on your CV, but talking up limited experience is no different to the way every large business advertises it’s products.

[Unicorn]

Banking experience

Not a problem.

If rooting around a condemned warehouse looking through thousands of boxes containing millions of cheques for the minute number which had been used by fraudsters. After finding the cheques (while wearing plastic gloves in case fingerprints were left), place them in a plastic bag and deliver them to the fraud department.

Does that count as banking experience ?

this was many years ago when people actually wrote cheques, millions of them.

[Mich the Tester]

Not a problem.

If rooting around a condemned warehouse looking through thousands of boxes containing millions of cheques for the minute number which had been used by fraudsters. After finding the cheques (while wearing plastic gloves in case fingerprints were left), place them in a plastic bag and deliver them to the fraud department.

Does that count as banking experience ?

yes; you could possibly call it 'forensic accounting' or 'risk management' or something like that.

[Unicorn]

So.....

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

[Mich the Tester]

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

Well done. That's a booming business in hard times.

[Doggy Styles]

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

Not yet - I think you've got data mining and analysis there as well.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well as I see it companies talk a whole lot of tulipe to get you to buy their products, especially banks, so bulltulipting to sell your own services must be acceptable business practice for them.

I’m not saying you should lower yourself to lying on your CV, but talking up limited experience is no different to the way every large business advertises it’s products.

Well having worked in that sector - the reason that they want you to have previous banking experience is so that you know what youre letting yourself in for.

I think it was the Dalai Lama , or was it Terry Butcher - who said :

Bank of England
No place for a Gentleman