Financial Services & Recruiting academyrecruiting on 16 Sep 2007 04:38 pm
Women are achieving great success in financial services
One very strong current trend in the financial services world is a tremendous demand for women professionals, just as there is in other major industries. We have been very successful in placing many outstanding female candidates with firms.
Here’s a great comment on the subject from Sallie Krawcheck, who at the time of this interview with Fortune in May 2006 was the CFO at Citigroup, but has since returned to Smith Barney as CEO:
“Q. Few women have risen to high posts on Wall Street. It’s an aggressively male environment. Is it an advantage or a disadvantage to be a woman in that world?
A. I think it’s an advantage. I grew up in Charleston, a very genteel, very Southern city, a gorgeous city. I will say there’s something about going to an all-girls school in Charleston that’s tougher than Wall Street. You don’t know what it’s like. I had the glasses, the braces, the corrective shoes. I was half-Jewish, half-WASPy. I couldn’t have been further outcast. There was nothing they could do to me at Salomon Brothers in the ’80s that was worse than the seventh grade.”
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/11/magazines/fortune/csuite_krawcheck_fortune_052906/index.htm
You gotta love that kind of attitude - no doubt it’s been a huge factor in her success.
