I dont think fresh grads nowadays willing to work 70 - 100 hours / weeks, not zero but not much. 70 / week is eq. 14hours / day. I assume they will be paid OT for that.

lol... myr 70k for 70-100hrs week work? lol... that's peanuts man...    international standard, myr70k = usd 23k, janitors in certain countries make more than that man 

what's your definition of IB? a lot of ppl like to call themselves IB, but they are all just doing crappy work..

16 hours already. but what mnc is that. 

if you are looking for $ and climbing the corporate ladder in the future, you shouldjoin ibanking, but u are expected to do alot of donkey jobs, ie. check spelling, photostat, send application to bnm, sc, bursa, despatch, check spacing, check line, check font

haha, i think it sums up, you dun need a good qualification to work in ib, the fact they want your result to be super great is because they wanna show other ppl how great you are, but in fact all those donkey jobs dun need your talent to be there

Doing it, but just that the results may not be immediate.

Thus, my frustration of not able to get people who have good degree, good english, analytical skills and read financial statements.

Ppl just want to send me CV and try for an interview, but not ready for it. To be in IB, u r expected to have knowledge that can withstand the test. Engineering or not, no excuse.

So for now, still evaluating some candidates but waiting to look into others.

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Added on June 29, 2012, 2:34 amSianz... When will talents come?

I have read some of the posts here and cant help myself from giving my honest opinion.

I have been working in a local IB for the past few years. All I can say is IBs never recruit from any forum, lowyat, etc.

For those who desperately wants to enter top tier IBs, unless you are a datuks' son or daughters or graduated from prestigious unis, go equip yourself with the necessary work experience or qualification first before applying. Then go harass the IBs hr dept or get someone from inside to recommend u. After that, it's just a matter of luck.

Malaysian Labor Law states 40 hours per week, Any extra need to pay OT. It has become a Malaysian culture to give more and more, till a point so many organizations are abusive, and no one is doing anything, and if you plan to do something, most organizations will talk to you about job security and how hard is it to get a job in the market. A dirty game.

Best Regards
GR

Yep .. have a maths degree with comp science minor (so i can do Java, VBA, matlab and SAS)  and done some  masters course-works in financial engineering .. working towards CFA too .. but now it seems less relevant to me if I don't do ECM/CF .. almost all of level 2 are valuations related ... not the kind of arcane maths I'm looking for. haha.

i'm actually working in bank too... but it's at the consumer division doing mostly risk modeling .. still, it is more statistical than mathematical to my liking due to the volume consumer businesses are dealing with.

i wonder if msian banks do derivative products origination ? or that's the big boys' game ?