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Consulting Jobs Require You to Name Microsoft’s Worst Product, Coffin Math
How many people will buy coffins in a country with five million people? What’s Microsoft’s worst product? These are just a couple of the questions M.B.A. graduates and prospective interns from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business were asked by consulting companies in recent months. If you can answer them and the […]
Real Questions Banks Ask Grads and How to Answer Them
You’ve either just graduated or are about to graduate with a degree pointing you toward an investment banking career. One of your first steps in that direction will be a series of interviews that will test your motivations for working in the industry, your financial sector know-how and your mental agility. The best defense is […]
Ten ways to increase your chances of getting your contract extended
Employers hire contractors to add value and to apply their skills and experience to a project or company. Value means different things to every organization, so it is important to make sure you fully understand what the firm wants to achieve in the project or specific role they have hired you for. This should start […]
How and When to Follow Up After Completing an Interview or Forwarding Your Resume
Have you been putting off sending a follow-up note after submitting your resume or completing that long-awaited interview? A word to the wise: Don’t. A full 81 percent of senior managers who responded to a survey late last year said they expect job candidates to follow up within two weeks of applying for a job. […]
The Famous Five
You may not be able to predict what questions you will be asked at an interview, but you can know the types of questions to expect. The questions banks ask will generally come from one of five categories. Competency questions Loved by graduate recruiters and human resources interviewers everywhere, the aim of this type of […]
Preparing for Front-Office Interviews
Three former students, now gainfully employed in front-office roles, give the inside scoop on what to expect during interviews for investment banking, sales and trading positions. Investment banking interviews If you make it to the final round of an investment banking interview process, you will encounter an assessment center. Most banks use them. At that […]
The S.T.A.R. Interview Technique
The S.T.A.R. technique may sound like a recipe for reality television success, but it’s actually the evidence and competency-based method of interviewing which is increasingly favored by investment banks. S.T.A.R. stands for Situation, Task, Action, Result and is a method that allows the interviewer to assess your competencies (read “skills” or “abilities”) as a candidate […]
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