You apply online through the bank's portal.

This is why connections and all that networking jazz is ********. Watch this video of a friend of mine, and how he got into Morgan Stanley HK in spite of being a Canadian.

s://..com/watch?v=Wvp6yStFUs8

Also, please for the love of god, you don't need to be a local FCH to work in FO. MANY are just 2nd upper though that is the bare minimum. If you want names, I can even put them down. I just hate posters who keep writing about FCH and how that is the typical profile blah blah blah without even being in the industry.