By the time you get to the end of this sentence, we'll have changed. Prices go up, prices go down. New markets open (and old ones close). Ideas and innovations come and go. Finance isn't static. It's dynamic. So are we.

Since our inception some 200 years ago, we've evolved to offer the whole spectrum of global banking and financial services - and in many cases it was us that helped define them. Yet some things never change. We invented the concept of relationship banking back in the nineteenth century. Doing 'first-class business in a first-class way' is a principle we still adhere to.

Today, between the Investment Bank and Asset Management there are 20,000 of us working together around the globe to meet the complex financial needs of corporations, governments, private firms, financial institutions, non-profit organizations and wealthy individuals. And, following our July 2004 merger, our parent company JPMorgan Chase employs some 170,000 people globally, and can boast $1.4 trillion in assets.

Please don’t let our size put you off. Big can be beautiful - provided big means an environment of support, security and stability where you’re given the freedom to develop, to take risks where justified and create your own niche, whatever that may be.

We're in more than 50 countries across the world - and often leading the charge in the markets we operate in. Our roots in Europe date back to 1838, for example, though we see our future in the world’s emerging markets as much as the more established ones.

Diversity, then, isn't just a buzzword. We expect our graduates to be similarly well-rounded. So don't think that we only employ economics or mathematics graduates. Our people come from many different backgrounds - academically, ethnically, or otherwise - and the different skills they bring are absolutely integral to our success, both in the long- and short-term.

We're evolving. Evolve with us and who knows where you'll end up.