From alex at owal.co.uk Thu Oct 5 02:42:17 2006 From: alex at owal.co.uk (alex at owal.co.uk) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:42:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Banking-pm] Business Knowledge? Message-ID: <63679.193.26.4.35.1160041337.squirrel@sflink.net> I think the biggest thing holding people back from getting work in Banking IT is lack of business knowledge. How do you try getting business knowledge? What sort of questions have you been asked in interview? What sort of resources would you like to help you with this? Alex From fly at anydata.co.uk Fri Oct 6 00:06:59 2006 From: fly at anydata.co.uk (Fred L Youhanaie) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:06:59 +0100 Subject: [Banking-pm] Business Knowledge? In-Reply-To: <63679.193.26.4.35.1160041337.squirrel@sflink.net> References: <63679.193.26.4.35.1160041337.squirrel@sflink.net> Message-ID: <45260093.9090102@anydata.co.uk> Hi Alex, alex at owal.co.uk wrote: > I think the biggest thing holding people back from getting work in Banking > IT is lack of business knowledge. For a contractor, getting passed the agency is the biggest hurdle, with or without the knowledge. Typically they expect to see banking buzzwords on the CV. My past experience in banks has always been on the infrastructure side, so for me banking knowledge was not crucial to get the job or carry out my duties. However, with the knowledge I would've been able to have more intelligent conversations with colleagues/clients who at times appeared to be speaking in tongues ;-) > How do you try getting business knowledge? What sort of questions have you > been asked in interview? What sort of resources would you like to help you > with this? I think your earlier idea of a wiki will be very useful here. There is a great deal of resources on the Internet, but organizing the pointers into an annotated collection around the theme of Banking IT (jobs, Perl, etc) would probably be new. Cheers f. From alex at owal.co.uk Fri Oct 6 01:38:24 2006 From: alex at owal.co.uk (alex at owal.co.uk) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:38:24 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Banking-pm] Business Knowledge? In-Reply-To: <45260093.9090102@anydata.co.uk> References: <63679.193.26.4.35.1160041337.squirrel@sflink.net> <45260093.9090102@anydata.co.uk> Message-ID: <22061.193.26.4.35.1160123904.squirrel@sflink.net> Fred wrote: > I think your earlier idea of a wiki will be very useful here. There is a > great deal of resources on the Internet, but organizing the pointers > into an annotated collection around the theme of Banking IT (jobs, Perl, > etc) would probably be new. OK, we have several choices here? Do people actually want a proper wiki where anyone can add stuff? I ask because I'd much rather it was a more formal thing with a limited number of authors so that we could possibly sell it as a book later :-) Anyone else with comments? Alex