What the title suggests - I'm looking for help to craft a narrative to fit exactly what investment banks are looking for and I'll pay for it.
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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.
If you can't piece together an answer from the numerous threads over many years on this topic, I don't know if banking is for you.
This^ How do you figure IB is your dream job and you can't even think of two to three bullet points on why you want to do it lmao. Also "crafting false narratives to fit the profile of what these firms are looking for" is like 50% of your job as an IB Analyst/Associate. Making a CIM is literally crafting a narrative to make the company you're selling look like it fits the profile of what investment firms are looking at.
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.
Seriously. This is one of the easiest/bs questions you will be asked.
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.
Have you thought about Big 4? We would be deloitted to have you.
This guy should check out the "Big Four is Paradise" thread.
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
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Check out the video “destined to deal” gives a good detailed example of what to use as a starting point.
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