I was recently contacted through LinkedIn by a recruiter from EY FSO who said she's like to connect with me to network and discuss potential opportunities with EY. I got back to her immediately and I have a phone interview early next week. I was hoping that I could get some insight into what the recruiter's expectations are for the interview. Although I am in the NYC area, the recruiter seems to be based in Chicago.
Some background on me: I have a B.A. in economics from a state school in NJ (relatively recent graduate) and some experience as an analyst at a tech consultancy firm NYC geared toward serving S&T, hedge funds and other asset managers. Unfortunately, the clients in that area of finance had a rough time while I was at the firm (r.i.p. Everest Capital et al.) and I ultimately decided to leave the firm because the employment agreement was very unfavorable and I could not both stay at my old firm and look for opportunities elsewhere. I also have had a PE internship (mostly due diligence stuff) and an internship at a software company where I faced off to business clients for incident management (nature of software service prevented prevented clients from making sales if it was down).
How can I best prepare for an interview this general? I need a job and EY has a great brand name and offers great career development opportunities.
As an aside:
I really appreciate that EY is interested in learning more about me. I understand that it's likely that I'm being contacted for my tech background, but I want to move into finance. For this kind of general, informational interview where recruiters already have a broad range of roles for which they are considering you, how open minded are recruiters to considering you for other roles? I joined my prior firm as a data analyst in part because there were opportunities to combine my economics background with programming skill for quantitative analysis work - my ideal job would have me in a research role.
