Everyone talks about the importance of your "Story" to answer the multiple variations of the "Tell me about yourself" question you will get asked in every interview. I am pretty conflicted on how to answer this, as some people will say this part of the interview is a gift and your time to completely sell yourself, but some will say its important to keep it as short as possible and leave out the detail so the interviewer doesn't get tired of listening to you talk. I personally don't see how these can be achieved simultaneously.
Is it more important to completely sell yourself, or keep it short?
I'd think they'd be interested in learning about how many beverages you can consume in the amount of time the interview takes.
Sounds like a lot of talk. Best practice is to bring in a handle of Jack and show them how much you can consume before one word is spoken.
Believe me, when you slam that empty bottle down there will be only one word to describe the interview.
Unforgettable.
Sell yourself in a short amount of time.
it depends, are you a boring person?
Look at the BIWS guide to this. I usually just talk about my spark and finance related activities on my resume. Takes about 3 mins
I used this format many times, it's a great concise way to tell your story.
Is this found in the BIWS 400 Interviews guide?
Must be less than 1 minute. Must tell your story -- high-level, but answering the why.
Include personal detail:
I grew up in blahh blah city, and in HS I loved soccer and math. At Princeton, I continued my pursuit of math, but became more intrigued with finance, because (short non-econ answer)... so I joined the stock brokers club...
You get the idea. Don't go into much detail, but include the flow, so people can see the story between the line items on your resume. Always include where you're from - people love helping people who have a shared background, and the strength of this bond increases with the rarity of the location. So even if you're from Iowa, the one person in the firm who's in the same class as the person interviewing most likely will want to help you even more.
This is very wrong. No one wants to listen to a 3 minute monologue.
Print a business card with a URL to your personal website and advise the interviewer that if they have further questions they should refer to the online website and use the resources there. They can follow up with your manager in the "Contact" page as well, should they have any additional inquiries.
I never ask this question when interviewing. Its the most bs HR question there is in my opinion.
I'm definitely going to ask this if I ever interview people just to hear the bs they say.
I'd consider the elevator pitch approach here, maybe slightly longer. But this gives a you a good methodology of how you could answer to that question.
In my opinion this is the most important interview question, especially for SA positions where in reality you probably don't know anything and, provided you have read the guides for technicals, there isn't much to differentiate you from the next candidate. Being able to answer this question well is important for a few reasons:
1.) It shows you understand what investment banking is at a deep enough level to connect your past experiences to leading you to pursue a career in the industry 2.) More than other questions, this allows me to get a better sense of who you are as a person based on the things you did in the past AND the way you present them in your response 3.) Most likely this will be the first question you get in an interview - having a strong answer will shape my opinion of you positively and affect the rest of the interview. On the other hand, having a weak answer will make me more skeptical and more likely to ask difficult questions in the remainder of the interview
The answer to that question will be different for every person who asks it. People tend to be complex,and no one needs to know everything about you. Think about the person who is asking and what I'm age you want them to have of you. You might want a girl to think that you are smart,fun,and popular,but you want your future boss to see you as a team player and hard-worker. Keep it simple and to the point. Talking too much makes you look both insecure and insincere.
look at here more in detail: **How To Answer Tell Me About Yourself In A Job Interview **
How do I sell myself? (Originally Posted: 09/11/2015)
I want to be on the team of a top-ranked TMT analyst on the west coast, and I believe my CS background and general interest in emerging technologies and software will provide some domain knowledge and value-adding perspective in this sector.
I know some once II-ranked analysts that have been out of the game for over a decade. I've sat down with them and learnt about ER and their experiences. They totally sold me on ER, but they've been out the industry long enough that I can't rely on them just shoeing me in anywhere.
I know so much about ER that it drives me crazy that I'm not working in it yet. My junior summer is coming up and I don't know where to start. From my lengthy discussions and individual research, I've learnt what exactly goes into a report, the politics behind giving the ratings, the responsibility behind the power to move markets etc. I trade on certain strategies that I flesh out, and make modest, consistent returns on my portfolio. I target only tech stocks, because they're the only ones I am bothered with learning the fundamentals of, and I know them well enough to create a decent pitch. I'm also working on some basic trading algorithms.
OCR for IBD is pretty good at my school, but for ER it's non-existent. I'm not sure if this is the case everywhere, and if so, how do people find that opportune window when a hole opens up in an analyst's team? A shotgun approach to cold emailing/LinkedIn networking wouldn't work as well as in IB given that there aren't enough people to even reach out to, and analysts only hire when they have to. Should I just go around emailing analysts that I see the names of on CNBC? Seriously, why does ER feel so much harder to break into?
How is USC OCR for TMT and Asset Management? I know they usually have Goldman but am curious as to which divisions? I think ER is pretty cool and actually within my connections on linkedin there are more that have ER experience than boutique summer analysts. No clue as to why.
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