New service offers boost for financial services recruitment

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) has joined forces with leading global on-line career management and jobs service, eFinancialCareers to launch a new website portal that promotes financial services career opportunities based in Scotland to job seekers around the world. The Career Centre is accessible via the SFE website and provides the most extensive online source of financial services job vacancies across Scotlandís financial services industry.

Currently the portal has information about 200 financial services roles based in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen spanning investment banking, insurance, asset management, accounting, corporate finance and operations positions.

The Scottish jobs portal is part of the eFinancialCareers global on-line platform which means that financial services companies based in Scotland will be able to tap into talent from financial markets around the world.

The arrangement between SFE and eFinancialCareers also provides SFE member companies with a 15 per cent discount on all eFinancialCareers services, covering job listings for Scottish-based vacancies, training courses and online and offline advertising options.

Amanda Harvie, SFE chief executive, said: ìHaving listened to our members we realised there was a need for a dedicated service to promote the many exciting financial services career opportunities available in Scotland. Ten percent of the Scottish workforce is employed directly and indirectly in financial services and the financial services industry in Scotland has grown by 36 percent over the last five years. Companies based here need to be able to recruit the very best people to enable them to continue to develop their businesses and compete effectively around the world. We hope that our Career Centre linked to the eFinancialCareers global platform will help companies to attract the talent they require and promote Scotlandís financial services industry more widely.î

Joel Davis, Head of Marketing at eFinancialCareers said: ìScotland is a growing international financial centre so we are delighted to be partnering with SFE to offer Scotlandís financial services industry a world-class website service that will help meet its recruitment needs and raise awareness of the many and varied financial services jobs available in Scotland.î

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