The Insider - Key Steps To Prepare For An Investment Banking Interview
I think the key steps in preparing a successful interview for an investment banking job is one, prepare, prepare, prepare. You have to do your research on the company you are interviewing with. What do I mean? Look at their website, read the financial press. Has any major event happened that they have featured in headlines, newspaper, websites, again etc. one other key financials if you are interviewing with a bank, how big is their balance sheet.Ò What was their latest profit? Any major investments, divestments they make. Also following the theme of preparing for an interview, you have to prepare for what you think the most likely interview questions are going to be. In an interview, you can easily predict about 80% of the questions that will come up. You know what they are going to be. There is no reason you cannot have an outstanding answer for each and every question. And finally prepare for the unexpected.What do you mean by that?
That is to say you know that you maybe caught with some questions you are not expecting. For example, brain teasers or sometimes case studies but once again, you can prepare for the unexpected by going through some very basic how to answer a question you don"t know the answer for techniques and that something we teach in our coaching as part of the interview preparation process.