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Investment Banking Brainteasers

Introduction The key to market sizing and brainteaser questions is familiarity, so I recommend carefully going through the 19 questions below to dominate the following areas: market sizing,...

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Investment Banking Video Interviews – Cracking the HireVue Algorithm

HireVue interviews are pre-recorded and completed after submitting your initial application including your CV, potentially a cover letter and psychometric tests. They usually consist of 3-5 questions...

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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 Improve Interview Technique

PlayHow to Improve Your Interview Technique for an Investment Banking Internship It goes without saying that everything, when it comes to adjusting and improving your interview technique, is about...

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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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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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