Last Friday, Forbes.com reported that 117,639 have been or are scheduled to be lost from 500 of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, which plans to cut 47,000 jobs; Caterpillar, which cut 22,000 jobs and PNC Financial Services Group, which plans to cut 5,800 jobs. Of course, the banking and financial services sector has been shedding jobs at an alarming rate since 2007. The banking crisis, which includes the failures of the investment banking giants and the concomitant mergers of large financial institutions, has contributed to a flooding of the tight job market with talent.

According to Steve Candland, Managing Partner of Advantage Integrated Talent Services, “generalist junior investment bankers” – people who are only a couple of years into career at professional level – are having the most difficult time in the current job market. “Also, on the capital market side, credit default swaps, which was a fast growing area just a year ago, has seen a steep drop as well.”

But is it all doom and gloom out there?

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“Wall Street…Or What?” is a 5-session program for Wall Street women who have reached the Vice President level or above, and are looking for help as they plan their next career move. To ensure that all participants are coming at the question of “what’s next” with current perspectives, returning professionals must have left the investment world within the last three years.

This workshop will be a combination of high-level support group and structured executive coaching-giving like-minded women the opportunity to explore options and gain job search momentum and accountability through collective resources, ideas and perspectives.

Each session will be led by Sharon Dauk, an executive coach who trained at the highly regarded Columbia University coaching program. Sharon is one of you: she has nearly 20 years of diverse professional experience as an investor, board member, financial advisor and business executive with a variety of small to mid-sized companies. An alumna of both the Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley corporate finance departments, she earned an MBA from Cornell. A major focus of her coaching practice is working with professionals transitioning both into and out of the financial services industry. Learn more about Sharon at www.sharondauk.com.

Workshop sessions will be held on five consecutive Tuesday nights, beginning on February 24th, 6:30 to 8:30pm. The other workshop dates are March 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th. As you consider if you would like to participate, be sure that you are available on all five dates: there are no partial fees or refunds if you are unable to attend on one or more dates.

For further information please contact Kathryn Sollmann.

Speakers

• School Visiting Professorial Fellow, Professor Virginia Valian
• Chaired by the Dean, Professor Sir Roderick Floud

DescriptionWomen are conspicuous by their relative absence at the most prominent levels of science, medicine, business, law, and academia. Women are sparsely represented on the editorial boards of leading journals and on the steering committees of professional organizations. Women are thinly represented among full professors at major universities. Why?

Valian’s explanation of women’s slow advancement in the professions details how and why women are disadvantaged and men advantaged – even though all the participants sincerely hold egalitarian and meritocratic attitudes. Valian reviews experimental data that demonstrate that gender schemas produce subtle overvaluations of men and undervaluations of women, by both men and women. As a result of many small examples of differential valuation, men are able to accumulate advantage more quickly than women.

Valian includes remedies, what institutions and individuals can do to achieve genuinely fair organizations that make full use of everyone’s talents.

The Lecture will be followed by a drink reception.

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