Career Management Skills Assignment

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Career Management Skills Assignment Part 1; I have chosen to compare and contrast the three roles of Corporate Finance, Human Resources and Sales &Trading. All three roles can be found within the sub sector of banking and building societies, however all financial sub sectors require human resources departments. In addition to the banking sub sector Corporate Finance roles also appear in accounting sub sector, and Sales & Trading in the Investment Management & Pensions sub sector. By working in Human Resources you will deal with the vast majority of the workforce, it is your job to look into how to motivate and ensure staff happiness as well as performance. In order to do this you would meet and discuss with managers, and construct new programmes in order to further enhance the skills of the companies’ workforce. In contrast traders work with clients or they trade with their organizations money in order to create greater revenue for their company. If working on the trading floor it is likely that a trader shall specialise in a certain field; such as foreign currency, futures & options, fixed interest bonds, or securities. If working with clients they would either have the role of directly buying and selling for the client as a market trader, or as a sales trader they would deal directly with the client, and advise them of market progress and of new interventions as well as placing orders for the clients. Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan have these roles. As a Corporate Finance Analyst there are various tasks to complete whilst likely working in a division of an accountancy firm such as PricewaterhouseCoopers or KPMG, or a division of an investment bank such as HSBC or Lloyds. These tasks can vary from raising capital to possibly address debt or expand in size, or structuring deals and valuing businesses. This therefore

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