So to start one more time from basics :)

What are jobs there that potentially available, what they requirements and what we can do here?

Fist industry that I wanted to cover or at least take a better look is BANKING. Here we go...

There are two major different bank types- COMMERCIAL and INVESTMENT. Most of the banks today is a mixture of both of them with dominant of one or another. What is the difference then?

Commercial bank is what we usually think about when talk about bank. Here you can get loan or open deposit account, pay your bills or exchange/transfer money.

Investment bank instead of interacting with people/business directly and lending them money it helps people/business to raise money from other firms through bonds, stocks, etc.

Work in investment bank divides on three main categories:
- Investment banking or everything that brings money (merge and acquisitions, underwriting, asset management, trading (stocks, bonds, etc), global transaction banking)
- Analyze team or everything that research/analyze/predict behaviour of the market– risk management, financial control, research, corporate strategy
- Back office or support – operations (providing support of all operations of investment bank), technology (IT development), and administrations.

For commercial bank it is two main divisions:
- Front office – it is where interaction with client and engagement of new ones happens
- Bank office – it is where operations of front office are supported and laterally coming to life!

Job hunt continues! Taking a job for just only an opportunity of having job is not really great idea and there are more things that need to be considered like – what makes you happy? What is important to you in your life? Doing something you like or doing something that pays good money? Spending major time in your life at work I want to make sure that I do what I like to do and it pays me good money :)

So I decided to go further... Had to change country, and necessity to face obstacles connected with being foreign, speciality that cannot be transferred that easy into any other culture, and work experience in small but prosper company in Ukraine – I have a lot of thinking to do. Like what I want to do, and what is even more interesting – what I can do in Ireland. I used to be sales person and I liked it (at least most parts of my job), now I am working in bank doing constantly repeating job (there is nothing good about it except free time after work and long holidays without any disturbing which I was lacking in my previous job).

When arrived I started to look for a job in recession time, in completely new country, with new language and culture. I manage to find it ionly after around 4-5 month of intense search. I described it in my blog – all how it was... From writing Cv up to opening a spousal work permit and etc.

After working in my new job at the bank for around 6 month now, I realise – money and lots of time for holidays is not a really fulfilment of my dreams... I want it to be interesting and challenging, well paid with lots of possibilities to improve, implement my ideas, travel, and just enjoying results of my work. Not really knowing what I want to do and what I CAN DO HERE; job search continues.... And I want to keep on talking about useful things which I find here and there. I hope at least some of us will end up with great result!