Growinfinance.com interesting recruitment statistics

Online, January 25, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Our main business is still in the European Union and the United States, and we are continuing to position ourselves in Asia. Over 500 companies have advertised their offers and a large number of business schools advertise their Master's and MBA courses on Growinfinance.com. Our database includes around 10,000 candidates, highly qualified and specialized in finance and banking.

Of the statistical data regarding our candidates, the following stand out:
• Over 70% of candidates have a master's, postgraduate qualification or doctorate.
• The main salary bands desired by candidates are: €30,000 to €100,000 - 60.31%; £30,000 to £100,000 - 71.68%; $60,000 to 250,000 - 76.42%.
• 51.1% have between 1 and 5 years' experience, 29.9% have 5 to 10, 7.1 more than 10 and 12.6 less than 1.
• 93% are prepared to travel for work.
• 87.5% would move home for work.
• 80.2% speak English; 65.5% also speak another European or Asian language.
• 28.4% live in the USA, 34.6% in the EU and the rest mainly in Asia.

With regard to the companies that use Growinfinance.com:
• Of the offers advertised that contain a salary range, separated by currency, with the salary band of €30,000 to €100,000 we find 74.13%; £30,000 to £100,000 - 70.53%; and $60,000 to $250,000 - 83.60%.
• 37.1% of companies look for candidates with at least a first degree: 19.2% with a minimum of a postgraduate qualification or master's. Many companies leave this field as flexible, so as to assess candidates not only on their level of study but also their experience and skills.
• Only 9.5% of offers require availability to travel.
• 85.4% of offers are for a permanent contract, 5.5% temporary, 4.7% self-employed and the rest training or other contracts.
• Offers requiring a visa: 41% for the USA, 43% for the EU, the rest for Asia, the Middle East and other countries.

Our strategy and marketing plan were crucial to reaching the position in which we find ourselves, and we expect to keep growth exponentially during the current year. One of the media that we have used to make ourselves known is social network, and you can find us on:

LinkedIn: Growinfinance
Viadeo: Finance Jobs
Xing: Growinfinance.com
Facebook: Join Now and Find Your Finance Job
Twitter: FindFinanceJob

Other advertising channels used include universities and business schools. We have established collaborations with hundreds of education centres internationally and we have attended many job fairs for students and alumni in the United Kingdom, France and Spain.

We are working on various positioning tasks in order to keep growing and to become in the short term one of the top reference portals for specialized employment in finance and banking on a global level.