Interview Success Tips

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Employers are PEOPLE, hiring PEOPLE. They need the right experience. But, they are also going to be spending 40-60 hours a week working with the person they hire. That is more time than they spend with their families!

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On every interview, you must portray your experience while bonding with the person interviewing you. You want that person to think of you as a valuable, flexible, contributing member of their team. If you are too nervous, it can come across as being insecure. Employers don’t have the time to coax people and give them confidence to do a job. They need people to come in, take the bull by the horns, and quickly learn it.

If you come across too conceited or aggressive, they aren’t going to see you fitting in with their team. They won’t see you taking criticism easily or being flexible to learn new things.

To put it very simply, you need to be the baby bear in the story of the three bears. You can’t be too hard, or too soft.

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To bring down your nerves before an interview, do your homework. The more prepared you feel, the less nervous you will be. Research the company. Go to their website. Understand their mission statement, know what year they were founded, and read their press releases. Know the job description. Don’t just read it, know it and truly understand it. Write down some of your accomplishments that relate to the job description and bring them up during the interview. Write down some questions about the job and the company. This way, when they ask you if you have any questions, you are sitting their, bug eyed, not sure what to say. Spend a few hours on preparation and your nerves will ease. But, it never hurts to listen to some hard rock on the way to bring out some of the ‘I can do anything’ mentality!

Now, if you find yourself too conceited before an interview, get over yourself. If you knew it all, you would run the world. And, you don’t. You are interviewing. Pet some bunnies, listen to some Kenny G, and talk about your experience and how much you would like to be a part of the team and learn their way. I know – it’s humbling! But they are the one paying, right?

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Scott Christopher Maxwell

5 Dumb Answers to Frequently Asked Interview Questions

Want to keep from looking lame and stupid in your interview? The simple solution is to prepare for the questions coming your way. And of course that means you have to learn about the company and the position. So naturally your answers should come across as intelligent.

However did you know that over 65of people do not prepare for the interview? The worst part is that many people just don’t think. So below are several of the dumb answers you should avoid. Some are obvious yet others are not because it is common place to answer in this fashion.

1. I don’t know much about your company: So you want a job for X dollars and you didn’t even take the time to research their company? BIG no no. The Internet has destroyed any excuse you have to not do your homework. Never respond with this answer because your are almost assuredly doomed.

2. I am not a computer person: Kiss your interview chances goodbye. Even blue collar jobs are hiring people with computer skills. With the library you have no more excuses. Game up or game over. Plus community colleges and public service programs can teach you about the latest computer technology. Remember you stop learning only when YOU DIE. Your never too old to learn.

3. I need a Job: This is usually answered by the dumbest of the dumb when asked ‘so why do you want to work for us?’ I can’t begin to express the ‘DUH’ in this answer. If that’s the best thing you have to say then your better off saying nothing at all. Talk about your career needs and how challenging and or rewarding you thin the job will be.

4. I have People Skills: Well shouldn’t everyone? If your not showing them that by your competency answers, and body language then your in trouble.

5. I am a Problem Solver: This one usually surprises a lot of people as a dumb answer. Because many think it is a good answer. But think about what your saying. The interviewers are hiring someone to solve a problem in the company right?

So saying your a problem solver is like a plumber saying he fixes pipes. That should be obvious during your interview. Especially if you have been delivering well crafted answers to frequently asked interview questions.

In conclusion put thought and care into your answers. the only real way to ace the interview is to prepare, know the company, and position. Also ask smart questions that involve the details of the position or company. That’s tells them your thinking.

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Scott C. Maxwell is a 35 year veteran expert consultant to human resource specifically in the engineering departments of several industries. He provides information about handling difficult Interview Questions and Answers at http://www.secretinterviewanswers.com/frequently-asked-interview-questions-and-answers/

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15 Most Common Investment Banking & Finance Interview Questions

Some of the most common banking interview questions for an investment banking interview include (some are a bit on the tough side but they DO come up very often, increasingly as a means of trimming down the candidate lists as the finance graduate job market gets harsher):

How many degrees (if any) are there in the angle between the hour and the minute hands of a clock when the time is a quarter past three?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for entry level investment banking graduate jobs]

Find the smallest positive integer that leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, a remainder of 2 when divided by 3, a remainder of 3 when divided by 4, … and a remainder of 9 when divided by 10
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for quantitative investment banking finance jobs]

Two standard options have exactly the same features, expect that one has long maturity, and the other has short maturity. Which one has the higher gamma?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for bank derivatives trading jobs]

How do you calculate an option’s delta?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for derivatives trading jobs]

When can hedging an options position make you take on more risk?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for trading jobs]

Are you better off using implied standard deviation or historical standard deviation to forecast volatility? Why?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for quantitative finance jobs]

Describe “duration” and “convexity”. Describe their properties and uses
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for graduate investment banking jobs]

Two players A and B play a marble game. Each player has both a red and a blue marble. They present one marble to each other. If both present red, A wins $3. If both present blue, A wins $1. If the colours do not match, B wins $2.
Is it better to be A or B, or does it matter?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for quantitative finance or derivatives jobs]

How do you “value” yourself? Here “value” means in financial terms
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for MBA finance jobs or experienced banking hires]

What distinguishes you from other candidates we might hire?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for graduate investment banking vacancies]

If you could go on a cross-country car trip with any three people, who would you choose? Why?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for corporate finance / mergers & acquisitions banking jobs]

Tell be about a stock you like or hate and why
[Asked by investment banking job interviewers for any accounting, finance or investment banking job!]

What is the difference between default and prepayment risk?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for credit jobs / risk management jobs]

How would you move mount Fuji?
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for consulting jobs or graduate accounting jobs]

Estimate the annual car demand for car batteries
[Typically asked during investment banking interviews for corporate finance jobs, mergers & acquisition banking jobs or consulting jobs]

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How to Answer Competency Interview Questions The Right Way

Call it divine intervention that you came to this article. Because I am about to give you your edge in your next interview. I often speak at conferences about taking command and leading the interview. Well today I am going to show you how to not only deal with those dreaded competency interview questions that come up. But also how to command them as if you wished they asked you those questions.

The insider tip is in your positioning. The more positioned you are for the job the better. Your competition is going to give good or even great answers but you keep reading and you will deliver and get the job. Remember the goal is not to have the best answers (though that’s not a bad thing). The goal is to get the job.

And here is how you do that so pay attention. Though these may seem like simple instructions this will make the difference between hired and that bland end of the interview comment “we will call you” statement which makes us all cringe.

You will ace any and all competency interview questions and get the job by:

Using analogies related to the job and company
Asking followup questions with power statements

A power statement repeats the answers you have given and follows up with a close to get a decision. Here is an example.

“Jane I want to thank you so much for asking me about my qualifications. I know I will be tremendous in helping you here at company “X” by doing “Y” things in the position of “Z”. Furthermore as I am very interested in the position I would like to followup with you early next week to see where you are with the hiring process.”

What this statement does is clarify that you know what your talking about and how the job works. Also you restated your qualifications and offered a time to actively followup. In other words you took command of the interview and answered the questions confidently. Remember leaders lead by leading not by saying their leaders.

Answering those hard competency interview questions is great. But getting the job involves leading the interview by giving scenarios and or analogies. Then closing with a power statement of your qualifications, interest, and expressed followup.

Do this repeatedly and you will not be in the general population of unemployed for long.

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