HONG KONG BANKS TRYING (AND FAILING) TO HIRE FROM GOOGLE AND ALIBABA

Finance-sector experience is no longer a must-have for getting a technology job at a large bank in Hong Kong. This year, banks are increasingly trying to poach tech professionals from outside the finance sector, according to 13 senior in-house recruiters (predominately from large banks) who attended a recent roundtable discussion panel organised by eFinancialCareers in Hong Kong.

“We’re no longer just recruiting technologists from banks, because we want more diversity of thought and of background in our teams,” said a delegate from an American bank in Hong Kong. Other attendees, all of whom asked not to be named in this report, said their firms had recently poached tech professionals from sectors that have equally complex IT systems – such as healthcare and aviation.

https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/315835/hong-kong-banks-recruiting-google-and-alibaba