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Chris Goulas Appointed By Kaizen To Drive Superannuation, Wealth And Insurance Recruitment

  Kaizen Recruitment has appointed financial services and human resources professional Chris Goulas​ to meet client recruitment demands in superannuation, wealth management and insurance. Chris’ role requires him to work together in partnership with our clients in resolving their recruitment needs. He will focus on filling a wide range of roles including administration, service delivery,…

Superannuation in the digital (robo) advice age

As superannuation funds look to innovate their services and improve member retention rates, financial planning services are a focal point of development and growth. FINSIA took the initiative to host a forum in which three industry leaders discussed their projects in the digital advice space. Jeremy Duffield Founder of Super Ed and funds management legend…

Even the best people blow their probation period

So you get an exciting new job and you want to make an impact straight away; that is a great attitude to have but be warned, your new job is not in the bag until you make it through the probation period. I often come across hardworking candidates with excellent credentials who blow their probationary…

Good paraplanners in high demand and difficult to replace

An often under-valued role in wealth management, paraplanners are a strategic asset to any financial planning business and are trusted in modelling and formulating the advice documentation. Both traditional in-house paraplanners and outsourced paraplanners are high in demand and difficult to replace. Paraplanning is the first hands-on exposure to the provision of financial advice. The…

Investment Operations salary review – Funds Management and Superannuation

During the second half of 2016, we experienced unprecedented demand for investment operations professionals across funds management, superannuation and custody. Right now, demand for good investment operations professional has never been higher. Demand has also been high for business analysts with strong funds management operational experience. Take a look at our recent salary review below….

How to get your first job in funds management. Part 1.

Everyone’s career starts somewhere and your first career opportunity can be tough to get, especially in your industry of choice. I love hearing stories of people’s career journey and I am fortunate at times to be able to assist and advise on career opportunities for many in the Funds Management industry. Here is a story I thought…

We know funds management

The Australian funds management sector is thriving with exceptional talent and 30 June 2016 has been Kaizen Recruitment’s best year ever. It is a privilege to work with so many Melbourne based, national and global organisations and we would like to thank those clients who partnered with us this year: Equity Trustees, IFM Investors. VFMC,…

Thank you from Kaizen Recruitment

  On behalf of the team at Kaizen I wanted to say a sincere thank you. The financial year 2015/2016 was our best year ever. – Thank you to all our clients that trusted and partnered with us to represent their brand. – Thank you to all candidates that put faith in us to find…

You DON’T need a LinkedIn profile to get a job!

LinkedIn has done a great job convincing everyone that it’s a must have and without it you are going to miss opportunities or not be able to be found by potential employers, talent acquisition teams or pesky recruiters. Not true. If you are good at what you do you will get noticed, and LinkedIn has…