1. How would you describe yourself?
Sample excellent response:
My background to date has been centered around preparing myself to become the very best financial consultant I can become. Let me tell you specifically how I've prepared myself. I am an undergraduate student in finance and accounting at _________ University. My past experiences has been in retail and higher education. Both aspects have prepared me well for this career.
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2. What specific goals, including those related to your occupation, have you established for your life?
Sample excellent response:
I want to be working for an excellent company like yours in a job in which I am managing information. I plan to contribute my leadership, interpersonal, and technical skills. My long-range career goal is to be the best information systems technician I can for the company I work for.
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3. How has your college experience prepared you for a business career?
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I have prepared myself to transition into the the work force through real-world experience involving travel abroad, internship, and entrepreneurial opportunities. While interning with a private organization in Ecuador, I developed a 15-page marketing plan composed in Spanish that recommended more effective ways the company could promote its services. I also traveled abroad on two other occasions in which I researched the indigenous culture of the Mayan Indians in Todos Santos, Guatemala, and participate din a total language immersion program in Costa Rica. As you can see from my academic, extracurricular, and experiential background, I have unconditionally committed myself to success as a marketing professional.
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4. Please describe the ideal job for you following graduation.
Sample excellent response (equates ideal job with job he's interviewing for):
My ideal job is one that incorporates both my education and practical work skills to be the best I can be. Namely combining my education in finance with my working knowledge of customer service operations, entrepreneurial abilities, computer skills, and administrative skills. I want to utilize my analytical expertise to help people meet their financial goals. This is exactly why I am convinced that I would be a very valuable member of the Merrill Lynch team.
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5. What influenced you to choose this career?
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My past experiences have shown me that I enjoy facing and overcoming the challenge of making a sale. Without a doubt, once I have practiced my presentation and prepared myself for objections, I feel very confident approaching people I don't know and convincing them that they need my product. Lastly, I like sales because my potential for success is limited only by how much of myself I dedicate toward my goal. If any profession is founded on self-determinism, it surely must be sales.
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6. At what point did you choose this career?
Sample excellent response:
I knew that I wanted to pursue information systems technology about my sophomore year in college. It was then that I realized that my that my hobby (computers) was taking up most of my time. My favorite courses were IT courses. I also realized that I was doing computer-oriented work-study that I enjoyed so much I would have done it for free.
7. What specific goals have you established for your career?
Sample excellent response:
My goals include becoming a Certified Financial Advisor so I can obtain a better working knowledge of financial research analysis, which would allow me contribute to my client base as a better financial consultant since I would have that extra insight into the companies they are seeking to invest in. Also this is the foundation block to advancing my career to portfolio manager or even branch office manager.
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8. What will it take to attain your goals, and what steps have you taken toward attaining them?
Sample excellent response:
I've already done some research on other workers at Merrill Lynch to see how they achieved similar goals. I know that Merrill Lynch encourages the pursuit and will reimburse for tuition of a graduate degree. I plan on pursuing a MBA to give me an even more extensive knowledge of business and financial analysis.
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Other Samples :
Interview Question: How ambitious are you? And why do you think you are ambitious?
Interview Answer Guide: Job Seeker should demonstrate a real ambition that is also backed by a persistence and real enthusiasm to succeed. However, check that this ambition is balanced by a sense of clear-headiness and an innate common sense. Make sure that the candidate is ‘grounded’ in reality.
Interview Question: How ambitious are you? And why do you think you are ambitious?
Interview Answer Guide: Job Seeker should demonstrate a real ambition that is also backed by a persistence and real enthusiasm to succeed. However, check that this ambition is balanced by a sense of clear-headiness and an innate common sense. Make sure that the candidate is ‘grounded’ in reality.
Interview Question: Do you think this company is ambitious and if so, why?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should demonstrate a good knowledge of the company, especially its past achievements, and have an optimistic and positive view of its future.
Interview Question: Do you have any past heroes?
Interview Answer Guide: Pay attention to the heroes and look for the qualities they admire. Do they possess any of those qualities? Look for historic figures that have demonstrated a clear purpose, enthusiasm and all the other specific qualities that resonant with the position you are offering.
Interview Question: What important goals have you achieved in the past year?
Interview Answer Guide: Look for an answer that demonstrates real ambition that is also backed, not only by persistence, but by a real enthusiasm to succeed. Try to determine if they have a record of practical achievement.
Ability to Delegate
Interview Question: What type of instructions would you give your staff if you decided to delegate?
Interview Answer Guide: Clear instructions with decisive standards; everyone should know what needs to be done, when it should be finished, and the quality/detail needed. A job seeker should delegate the objective, not the procedure.
Interview Question: What steps do you take to ensure that the work you delegate is successful?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should explain he knows how to outline desired results, ask for progress reports, sets interim deadlines, and does not overly focus on the methodology.
Interview Question: What do you think are the most common excuses team leaders use to not delegate?
Interview Answer Guide: They can do it better them selves,; can’t trust him/her to do it; he/she is not qualified enough; they don’t want anymore added responsibilities; I don’t have time to show anyone how to do it; No one to delegate to; I am the only one that can do it.
Interview Question: What should you assume about your co-workers if you want to delegate successfully?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should be able to view the positive potential of co-workers; does not rule out the possibility that a co-worker may want more responsibility; co-workers want to learn more; job seeker should recognize that the short term training investment will pay off in the long term.
Analytical Skills
Interview Question: Can you tell me about a time when you discovered a more efficient way to do a work task?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should be able to identify a time where he/she was having difficulty with a work task, found a way to rectify the faults and work more efficiently.
Interview Question: Tell me about a task that really tested your analytical abilities?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should mention a time where he/she had to use reason and logic to resolve a problem. Job seeker may have analyzed all the relevant information and created a good, effective solution.
Interview Question: Tell me about a tricky situation for which you found a very simple solution?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seekers answer should show that they are a problem solver, that they can analyze all the information, and come up with a solution.
Interview Question: Have you ever been in a real dilemma at work? What did you do to get out of it?
Interview Answer Guide: You should hear answers that show the job seeker has sound analytical skills to solve a problem; analyzes problems in great detail to come up with a solution.
Interview Question: Tell me about an assignment you worked on in which you had to amass a huge amount of data, and then analyze it?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should be able to explain how they can compile facts and figures for preliminary analysis; derive relevant facts and information from the study of this data.
Interview Question: Can you tell me about a situation where your analysis of a problem was deemed to be incorrect? What would you have done differently?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should have the character to admit mistakes. Also clarify: Were the steps he took correct? More importantly, has he/she learned from this mistake?
Awareness to Detail
Interview Question: Give me an example of an assignment that you found difficult to finish? How did you go about it?
Interview Answer Guide: Answer should show the job seeker is quality conscious, understands the importance of time management techniques, understands how critical deadlines are, and does not give up when obstacles occur.
Interview Question: Do you always double-check your work?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should show that they are aware of the quality process and that they try to deliver a flawless project
Interview Question: Is detail important to you? Do you think details should be left to your assistant?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should show that they check their work to ensure that he/she delivers good quality product and that they take responsibility for his/her own work.
Interview Question: Did you ever have to complete a project with a fixed pressurized deadline, where the final proposal had to be 100?
Interview Answer Guide: Accuracy and perfection? If so, tell us about it.
Interview Question: How do you handle projects with short deadlines that require precise calculations and analysis? What is your approach?
Interview Answer Guide: Should follow systematic approach; has the ability to be accurate while keeping in mind the time constraints, use of appropriate software and technology.
Interview Question: Tell me about a time when you were given an assignment, but you were not clear of how to go about it. How did you tackle this situation?
Interview Answer Guide: Job seeker should know whom to deal with to get the relevant information, how to assess the details of the project and decide what he/she is supposed to do.
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