Wish You a New Year full of Cheer! Happy 2011!

$ Post your resume

$ Post your resume

Firstly, find those active job portals in the country and register yourself. Share the same username and password for your easy remembrance.

While you register, enter your contact numbers, email address, location, Industry/Sector, Function, key skills appropriately in the site. Limit yourself to those active job sites in the market so that you can focus majorly on the job search.

Title of your registration, resume title and key skills are more important as they are the key factors for the recruiter’s search. So, fill the relevant information you have already on your resume wherever possible even on the site.

Upload the resume you have prepared and preview the whole page so that you get an idea how your resume been presented in the site.

Here are few job portals in Singapore,

• http://www.monster.com.sg/
• http://www.jobsdb.com.sg/
• http://www.jobstreet.com.sg/
• http://www.efinancialcareers.sg/

Make sure to edit all the job portals whenever you edit your resume by adding your technical skills, functional knowledge, trainings/certifications, etc., This helps not only in your projection in the market place but also the tool which can help you to find your Perfect Job!

Understand the facts below,

• You don’t get a call for interview just by adding your resume in any of the job portal; refresh your resume on a daily basis to be one of those top searches of a recruiter.
• Job Sites are one of the tools you may use in your job search, registering your resume is a way to send your application to those recruiters who don’t display their email address in their postings.

Be focussed! Be prepared! Be ready! Beat the competition! All the best!!!

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!

C# Development - AVP Level with FX team of a bank in Singapore

This role emerges within the Foreign Exchange and Local Market technology team in Singapore and the successful candidate will have a proven track record in C# development in a financial services environment.

Experience required
• At least 5 years commercial C# development experience; ideally having more.
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems using a range of middleware and database products.
• Knowledge of FX an advantage with an appreciation of whole deal lifecycle.

Role
• Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities
• Partner with the business to define requirements and provide technology solutions. Build relationships with downstream/upstream FX application owners.
• Design, develop and test new features in FX Bench.
• Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product. Ensure adherence to software development policies and lifecycle.
• Partner with geographically distributed team to define and execute solutions.
• Be innovative in the application’s engineering and drive change.
• Be comfortable working on production support escalations as well as planned development tasks.
• Identify and manage upstream and downstream project dependencies; secure resources and commitments from upstream dependencies as required; make and keep commitments to downstream dependencies.

Technical skills
• Proficient in C# development with OO design.
• Middleware Technologies – Tibco EMS, FIX protocol
• Oracle (SQL and PL/SQL).

Qualified and Interested candidates from Singapore market can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Only Shortlisted applicants shall be notified. Thanks.

Core Java Development - AVP Level with FX team of a bank in Singapore.

This role emerges within the Foreign Exchange and Local Market technology team in Singapore and the successful candidate will have a proven track record in Java development in a financial services environment.

Experience required
• At least 5 years commercial Java development experience; ideally having more.
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems using a range of middleware and database products.
• Knowledge of FX an advantage with an appreciation of whole deal lifecycle.

Role
• Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities
• Partner with the business to define requirements and provide technology solutions. Build relationships with downstream/upstream FX application owners.
• Design, develop and test new features in FX Bench.
• Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product. Ensure adherence to software development policies and lifecycle.
• Partner with geographically distributed team to define and execute solutions.
• Be innovative in the application’s engineering and drive change.
• Be comfortable working on production support escalations as well as planned development tasks.
• Identify and manage upstream and downstream project dependencies; secure resources and commitments from upstream dependencies as required; make and keep commitments to downstream dependencies.

Technical skills
• Proficient in Core Java development, UNIX server side with OO design.
• Middleware Technologies – Tibco EMS, FIX protocol
• Oracle (SQL and PL/SQL).

Qualified and Interested candidates from Singapore market can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Only Shortlisted applicants shall be notified. Thanks.

Do you have a good resume? Prepare Yourself !

A good resume adds value to your candidature. Here is a resume sketch to help the Software Professionals to prepare themselves for their Job Hunt!

1. Summary:
a. Years of experience
b. Technologies Exposure
i. into Development
ii. into Support (UAT/Prod/App)
iii. into Testing
c. Functional Exposure
i. Domain knowledge
ii. Product knowledge
d. Geographies worked / provided support
e. Methodologies used / Processes followed

2. Education Qualification:
a. Masters – University name – year passed
b. Bachelors – University name – year passed

3. Trainings / Awards / Achievements / Certifications:

4. Work Experience: (Reverse Chronological Order)
Name of the Company: add the URL link
Corporate Title:
Employment Duration:

***Repeat likewise for other companies also

5. Project Experience: (Reverse Chronological Order)
Name of the Client & Location: add the URL link
Duration of the Project:
Role in the Project:
Responsibilities:
*** Specifically mention your individual responsibilities other than the overall team activities in the project
Technologies Used:
1. Development -
2. Support -
3. Testing -
4. Environment / OS -

***Repeat likewise for other projects also

6. Personal Strengths:

7. Personal details:
Passport Name
Nationality
Email address
Mobile Number
Nationality
Passport Number (*** do mention it when you search for overseas opportunities)
Passport Validity (*** do mention it when you search for overseas opportunities)
Current Location
Languages (Spoken/Written)


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For all Job Seekers ~ The Perfect Job!

For all Job Seekers!

$ Prepare a good resume – Project the technical skills (hands on), functional knowledge, certifications, soft skills, education, passport details (when you search for an overseas job), companies worked, etc,
$ Prepare yourself – Self preparation is more important on those projected lines in your resume
$ Post your resume – Find those active job portals in the country and register your resume
$ Networking sites – You may join those public networking sites to project your professional image to the world
$ Professional groups – You may join the groups available and explore yourself to new discussions and job opportunities.
$ Research – Search for those relevant job postings on the job portals or networking sites and a research on the company/recruiter
$ Application – Submit your resume to those relevant jobs that suits your skillsets and improvise the reach to your Perfect Job!
$ Ask Questions – Ask relevant questions to the recruiter to know more about the job
$ Follow-up – Send a mail to the contact to know whether your candidature is considered for the open role or request them to share the missing factor so that you can prepare yourself
$ Understand – You need to understand that finding The Perfect resource for the job is as difficult as you finding your Perfect Job! So be The Perfect resource and The Perfect Job will be there for you in the market place

We will analyse the above topics separately on a daily basis and do share your inputs/comments accordingly to discuss them further.

Prepare yourself! Boost your morale! Be at your Best! The Job is for YOU!!!

Wishes to all of YOU!
Gopi Karuna
Moderator – The Perfect Job group!

AVP Role with a Banking Client in Singapore: Support Analyst (Sybase Unix)

This role is responsible to handle support activities under Prime Services team of a Global Financial Client in Singapore.

Main Function:
The role is to be an Application Support Analyst within the existing Application Management team looking after front / middle / back office systems for the Prime Brokerage, Stock Lending & Futures business in Prime Services. The primary responsibility is to ensure the continued availability, effectiveness and accuracy of production systems, and realize the maximum value from them through continual technical and business process improvement.

Skills required: Sybase, Unix, Perl, Autosys

Support Duties:
• 1st/2nd Line application (internal and vendor systems) and business process support for the Prime Services Group, including shift work (covering LDN business hours).
• Support of external client interfaces (reports, report delivery, trade capture).
• Root cause analysis of problems, including solution recommendation.
• Operational and support activity remediation analysis in conjunction with Front, Middle and Back Office.
• Building a procedure framework and enhancement of knowledge base.
• Assisting in BAU activities such as capacity planning, ad-hoc requests (external clients and internal desks) and front office initiatives.
• Liaise with Development teams on future applications to be released.
• Take ownership of issues through to resolution or escalation, as appropriate.
• Pro-actively improve quality of systems and service, and increase business value.
• Undertake projects as required, including, but not restricted to, the following areas:- capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, web based tools, reporting and documentation.
• Uphold / champion policies, procedures and standards.

Need resources from any of the major Banking / Financial organizations from the local market place (Singapore).

Interested candidates can share their resume or write their queries to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

I regret that ONLY shortlisted candidates will be notified about the further process.