With the financial crisis winding down, hiring is set to cautiously resume in the region’s banks. Executive spoke with Panos Manolopoulos, vice president for the Middle East at Stanton Chase, an executive search and compensation consultancy, to find out what financial jobseekers can expect to see in 2010. E Did the banking sector see the trimming down of personnel as much as other sectors? There were a lot of losses in most parts of the banking sector. The mortgage losses were the centerpiece of the crisis and of course that led to many layoffs and, in turn, restructuring. So all the players took a hit and no one can claim to have been unscratched. JP Morgan, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America; everyone has felt it. There has been a trimming down of personnel as much as other sectors and in some cases even more. But things are getting back
