I will pay someone to help tutor me into making a convincing "Why IBD?" story out of my experience/life. I cannot be fucked and frankly suck at crafting false narratives to fit the profile of what these firms are looking for - I think it's sociopathic.

Much of life revolves around some form of sales (especially in the business world).

Learning to craft a story that makes sense within the context of IB recruitment is a pretty straightforward opportunity to practice that skill, and it'll be a necessary skill moving forward. Nothing about it is sociopathic.

I'm happy to help if you'd like to connect one on one. For background, I broke into a bulge bracket in a top coverage group coming from an extreme non-target background with no alumni presence, mostly from my ability to tell my story in a compelling way. Feel free to PM me if interested.

Dude this is literally a check the box question to make sure you have some idea of what IBD is. No one is looking for (or impressed by) some personal sob story about why IBD is your life's calling. it's just a job.

I only half listen to this answer, as long as they say some of the sound bites on this website it's fine.

I echo some of the comments above, about if you can't craft an answer to this... 

Figure out the two or three main things an investment banker does, then explain/make-up why you're interested in those things/why you would thrive in that environment. 

1. Keep the entire intro about 2-3 minutes (3 is pushing it)
2. Start with simple "who you are/came from" stuff, center around being someone that people would both want to work with and hang out with 
3. Include what has you interested in finance, where the initial interest came from, and where the growing interest is fed from
4. IB is where you always want to be, explain why you took sales first and try to find some sort of advising/valuation piece to link as to why you are going into IB
5. End with a quick piece on why you chose that bank, how you can bring part 2) & 3) into the role to both grow you interest and add value to the firm

EDIT: 

Stay confident and positive! You can do this if you believe in yourself and want it bad enough. If you don't make it, don't stop trying!

...do you really want to be a banker if you don't like crafting sociopathic false narratives?  

As long as you don’t say you want to do it because you like stocks you’re good

DM me pops

Pm me

Check out the video “destined to deal” gives a good detailed example of what to use as a starting point.

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