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What does an investment banking analyst do?
How do you get hired an an investment banking analyst?
In London, most of the analysts are hired from the best Undergraduate and Master Degree programmes of top universities across Europe – everything except MBA programmes and some PhD programmes (those will join as associates).
Investment Banking Assessment Centers - An Overview
Investment Banking Assessment centres are simply extended periods of interviews organised by London investment banks, and held at specific locations (such as a hotel, or in the bank itself). Those interviews can include numerical and verbal exercises, case studies, and more traditional face to face interviews, either in group or individually, often both. Assessment centers are targeted at small groups of candidates that have already passed online numerical and verbal tests, and that have also usually passed a first round of phone interviews.
What do I write in my "Personal Interests" section at the bottom of my CV
Many students that we talked to think that the "Personal Interests", "Other Interests", or "Hobbies" section is not the most important in your CV. Here is a CV tip: while it is true that your academic performance and professional experience matters, this section at the bottom of your CV is often critical.
Why? Because:
1. They show the bank how well rounded you are
Application Questions: "What is your toughest challenge to date and why?"
This is quite a common investment banking application question, essentially testing your attitude when facing challenges, stress and tough situations, which is a very common situation as an investment banker.
You can take any example, doesn't really matter: it can be an example at school (i.e. you had a group project due, but a member became sick and so you had a major issue) or in extra curriculars (your team was loosing because badly organised or the team spirit wasn't good, etc.), or personal experience (you were lost in some foreign country) What matters is how you handled the challenge, and you need to demonstrate logic in your thought process.
You need to structure and address the following points (some high-level example in parenthesis to give you an idea)
Goldman Sachs Interview: as a student, how to I make it to Goldman Sachs?
One of the most common questions that gets asked here: "How do I make it into Goldman Sachs?" Goldman Sachs is consistently ranked at the top of the investment banking league tables, attracts top talent, and pays the highest bonuses, so no wonder students and bankers all want to get a job at the prestigious investment banking firm.
Here are the tips we gathered from a "Goldmanite", who spent 16 years at the firm:
There is no magic list of courses, study, deals or anything else that will guarantee you to get hired by Goldman Sachs. Let me explain how this works:
