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How to Deal With Application Rejection

Summary Battle against your mind and focus on variables inside your court of control, rather than factors outside of your control, take radical action on feedback or reflection, apply to many firms,...

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How to boost your CV at university

If your CV is looking skinny, then it is important to make the most of university by joining exec committees, university societies, taking part in competitions, completing online courses and...

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5 hacks for avoiding application season burnout

One way of preventing burnout is through building a robust system that prepares you for applications, helps plan your day, and gets you through the toughest tasks with more ease. Five ways you can...

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How to prepare for an Investment Banking Assessment Centre

For all those people with assessment centres coming up, this post is for you.I’ll be covering the following:What you can expect and how to map out your own preparationHow to tackle case studiesHow...

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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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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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