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How to Pass First Round Investment Banking Interviews

Here are the components you need to nail: introducing yourself, why the firm, why division, why you, competencies, commercial awareness stories, recent deals and technicals. I remember first-round...

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How to Secure an Investment Banking Role (10 snippet summary)

This blog started with weekly LinkedIn posts, which I then began posting onto the site. Having produced larger posts digging into each category, here is a page compiling all of the previous...

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Investment Banking Interview Questions

In this post, I share investment banking interview questions that fall outside of the nicely boxed categories I have talked about in previous posts such as competency questions, technicals,...

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How to Pass Situational Judgment Tests

Brief intro: Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are a type of online test where you are given a set of situations and responses and must either rank or choose the best response. The aim of these...

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How to Pass Investment Banking Tests (Verbal, Numerical, Logical)

Most people get knocked out at the verbal, numerical and logical reasoning test stage of an application. To meet the high thresholds set by banks, you need to harness practice providers and document...

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This website has one simple aim: To help you get into investment banking by providing actionable advice on the application process and insights on the work.

The site evolved from the tips and techniques others generously shared with me while undertaking my own application season, which I later collated into the original 'game plan' document. The tips were then refined when sharing with others and expanded upon when working in the field full-time.

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