Featured on Business Insider, Co-Founder of Silver Lake Partners, Glenn Hutchins, shares his story in the latest Open Door episode. In the video, Hutchins inspires graduates with his story of rejecting job offers after college to pursue a more entrepreneurial path and shares crucial career advice on what it takes to follow your dream. Read the full article here:

Silver Lake Co-Founder Had To Convince His Harvard Professors Not To Feel Bad That He Was Jobless At Graduation

In a recent article in The New York Times, OneWire CEO, Skiddy von Stade, speaks to the evolving recruiting landscape for young finance professionals.  He explains why private equity firms and hedge funds are becoming increasingly appealing to young analysts who receive their training at bulge bracket investment banks.  At the same time, these smaller firms are beginning to recruit their top talent earlier. Said one private equity executive, "We should just be recruiting these kids out of middle school." Read the full article here:

A Rush to Recruit Young Analysts, Only Months on the Job

Featured on Business Insider, CEO of Carver Bancorp, Deborah Wright, shares her story in the latest Open Door episode. In the video, Wright discusses her path from graduating from Harvard with a JD and MBA to becoming CEO and President of Carver Bancorp-as well as the challenges she had to face along the way. Read the full article here:

How Deborah Wright Became CEO of the Largest Publicly Traded African American Bank in the US

There comes a time in a business professional's life when he or she must make a decision about how to advance their career.  For some that means deciding whether to head to Business School for a Masters in Business Administration, or to take the Chartered Financial Analyst exams — the CFA.  OneWire CEO, Skiddy von Stade, weighs in on the pros and cons of each.  Read the full article, "MBA VS. CFA: Here's How To Decide Which One To Get."

Peter Crisp, a former managing partner at venture firm Venrock Associates, was one of the first investors to take a chance on Steve Jobs before he was Steve Jobs back in 1979. Seems like a great idea now, but hindsight is 20/20. At that time, Crisp was taking a risk.  Check out the recent Business Insider article, "EARLY APPLE INVESTOR: Why My Team Went With Our Gut Feeling To Give Steve Jobs $300,000 In 1979," and watch Skiddy von Stade, CEO of OneWire, interview Peter Crisp.

While organizations across all industries are currently engaged in a war for talent, companies in the finance sector face a unique challenge. Rather than competing for a small number of qualified candidates, finance organizations must contend with a surplus of talented job seekers and a shortage of positions to meet the demand. While these circumstances seem to imply an easier path to successful recruitment, in reality they pose their own set of issues for identifying the right candidates.

Click here to read the full article, "Sourcing Top Talent in the Finance Sector: Challenges and Opportunities"

A recent Business Insider article announced the release of OneWire's newest Open Door interivew with Tony James, President & COO of Blackstone.  In it, Mr. James discusses his career trajectory and what he looks for in a candidate.  Watch the video here!

OneWire's new video interview series, Open Door, was recently featured in The New York Times - DealBook. The article introduces the series, which showcases top finance professionals offering career advice.  It also announces the latest installment in the series, an interview with Tony James, President & COO of Blackstone Group.  Watch the interview here!

“Open Door with Skiddy von Stade” to Feature Corporate and Wall Street Leaders  
Sharing Career Tips and Experiences for Finance Candidates

NEW YORK, N.Y. – February 13, 2013 – Delivering precise connections between finance professionals and leading employers, OneWire® today announced the release of its brand new video series, “Open Door with Skiddy von Stade.” In this series, OneWire founder and CEO, Skiddy von Stade, interviews high-profile executives in the Fortune 500 and financial services sector about their experiences in their respective fields. From landing their first job to rising to the top of their companies, von Stade’s guests provide insight based on their own successes and challenges that can help today’s finance professionals advance their careers.

As the premier destination for finance professionals to find relevant opportunities and connect directly with hiring companies, OneWire is committed to helping qualified candidates, from entry level to senior management, get hired. Candidates using OneWire create detailed career profiles that include information about their skills, background and career preferences. Organizations use OneWire to find candidates who match their open positions based on specific, employer-selected criteria. Candidates can then pursue opportunities that interest them while maintaining complete control over their privacy and visibility to employers.

With its new video series, OneWire further provides candidates with premium content that enables them to access hard-to-reach and rarely interviewed executive leaders from Wall Street to corporate America. In each video, von Stade interviews a different guest, many of whom are his friends and former colleagues, who explain the challenges they faced in their own job searches, share strategies for those just starting out and provide lessons they have learned along their way to the top of their fields.

“There is perhaps no better way for finance professionals to learn how to advance their careers than by hearing from some of the most successful individuals in their respective industries,” said von Stade. “Our goal in producing these videos is to show new entrants to finance and career veterans alike what it takes to get ahead. We believe that our community of finance professionals will benefit greatly from watching these videos and will gain crucial insight that can help them achieve their career objectives.”

OneWire will share several new videos every month, each featuring an interview with a different luminary from the finance sector. The series overview can be viewed at: http://www.onewire.com/videos.

About OneWire 

Generating precise connections between finance professionals and leading employers, OneWire’s recruiting solutions span from self-service job postings, through comprehensive candidate search and match tools, to expert executive search. Job seekers create detailed, confidential profiles on OneWire that enable them to maintain full privacy and total control over their search. Employers post finance job openings, search the candidate community, and achieve unprecedented accuracy thanks to OneWire’s unique structured data and matching technology. Whether searching for a great finance job or exceptional finance talent, OneWire makes it easy to achieve your goals.

OneWire Founder and CEO, Skiddy von Stade, recently sat down with Business Insider to discuss the best places to work on Wall Street right now.  While some of the bigger names are slow to hire and even reducing salaries, other firms are offering exciting environments and good compensation.  Check out the full article, 16 Wall Street Firms Where Bankers and Traders Really Want To Work!