Careers in Finance-- Tracking Industry Trends
Use these sources to:
- Gauge career outlook
- Identify desired competencies, experience, and skill sets
- Identify salary/compensation surveys and trends
- Track future industry and competency growth and opportunities
- Best practices, benchmarking studies, lessons learned
- Identify hot issues and concerns
- Learn the language and jargon
- Focuses on "Tools and Resources for Financial Executive"
- CFO Careers page
- From the CFO.com Home Page, select "CFO Careers" from the Browse by Topics box located on the top of the page.
- Scan the CFO Professional Development section for timely articles.
International Risk Management Institute
- From the Home Page, click on the Expert Commentary button on the left frame.
- Click on Risk Management
- Articles written by industry experts on a range of subtopics including: Brand Equity and Product Recall, Risk Finance, Quantitative Methods, and Enterprise Risk Management.
- Scan the text of industry press releases going back several years focusing on salary fluctuations, employment trends, and hot topics related to careers.
- Articles covering current industry trends and hot buttons in the areas of debt (bonds/credit), equity (capital markets, M&A and strategy), treasury (foreign exchange), services (banking, financial technology), and investment management (fund management).
- Registration is required but access to most of the articles is free.
Information Technology Focus
- If you have an interest in working with the IT sector of the
financial industry, the following IT Market Research firms do
an excellent job of tracking the industry, evaluating new trends
and applications, and gauging market demand.
- Gartner
Group
- Scan reports in the "Focus Areas" for Financial Services Drivers, Strategies, Direction & Vision.
- Jupiter
Research
- Scan report in the "Vertical Industry Research" section for Brokerage & Wealth Management (Vision Reports and Industry Reports).
- Gartner
Group
Scanning Articles and the Press
- Career Outlooks
- hlp=(corporate finance) and hlp=(career or profession or
workforce or marketplace)
- hlp=(asset management) and hlp=(career or profession or
job) and hlp=(outlook or survey or forecast or future or trend
or association or predict$ or growth)
- hlp=(corporate finance) and hlp=(career or profession or
workforce or marketplace)
- General Industry/Function Outlooks
- hlp=(risk management) and hlp=(outlook or future or trend or predict$ or growth or forecast)
- Search Specific Sources
- sn=(financial management or cfo or wall street journal or forbes) and ....
- Specific Geographic Region
- Click on Region link at top of page to narrow search to specific parts of the world
