JLL corporate finance interview
Hello fellow RE interersted finance ppl, this is my first post so I want to briefly introduce myself.
I am an econ major at a venerable southern german university and i will graduate this fall. I have completed an internship at a financial advisory company (mostly DD) and i am looking into the career field of real estate.
I managed to get an interview for the CF section of JLL in Germany and I was wondering if you guys know what questions I should expect.
Thank you so much in advance.
Good luck buddy!
FYI
I had to do the "walk me through your resumee"-routine. Then some other fit questions: "Why us?" "Why real estate?" "Why should we pick you?"
And then I got some technical questions: "What are the value drivers of real estate?" "Explain the elements of NOI" "Which excel functions do you dislike the most?" "A client wants to restructure his debt, what would you do?"
Overall, it was a nice athmosphere. Still have another telephone interview with them coming up.
What does that group even do?
JLL corporate finance is the "REIB" branch of Jones Lang LaSalle in europe. They do debt, equity and M&A (both asset and share deal) transactions related to real estate.
Congrats! Great company
Thanks, but I didn't get the internship yet.
They kinda grilled me during my phone interview asking me technicals and uncomfortable questions about my CV... so i don't know if they didn't like what they saw or if they just try to see how i react to unpleasant situations.
Got the job !
So I guess they ask uncomfortable questions to figure out how you react to stressful situations. I will let you guys know more about the working experience / culture once I'll be working.
Cheers
Where are you going to be located? Where are you originally from and which school are you attending? I know this is a lot of private information. So pm me if you would prefer.
ok i need one more banana to PM you ^^
hahaha
Does anyone know about the culture/ hours/ compensation for interns at JLL/ C&W/ CBRE type of firms in europe ?
what study tools did you use?
I just refreshed my knowledge on basic dcf, multiples, some general real estate market information (very superficial though).
I downloaded the free trial of ARGUS and played around with it for a bit. Pretty useless because there are no real free online ways to learn the program, even though it's supposed to be easy to work with. But the interviewers liked the fact that I even knew of the existence of this software.
Also I tried to gather as much information on the company as possible, because the "why our company?"-question will always come up and you can make a good impression with hard facts, i.e. "I would love to work for a xbn$ revenue company with y employees that also has won the XYZ awards for being a great workplace."
I also think it's important to know what you've done in previous internships and be able to explain every single detail on your resumee, for example "why did u pick this school?" or "why did you switch your major" or stuff like that.
No idea on Europe but it's honestly office to office anyhow. Think of it like fraternities. The "cool" fraternity on one campus could be the loser fraternity at another just like CBRE, JLL, or Colliers could have a great office culture and do huge deals in one city while a different branch in a different city could be full of douchebags who don't get deals.
I'm an econ major too, but in my econ classes I didn't learn much about corporate finance or anything related to it. I was wondering what was the best study tools you used to get familiar with these concepts?
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