Behaviorals Flashcards
Strengths & Weaknesses / why should we hire you
Strengths = Growth Mindset, Resilience, Integrity
* I grow from every failure as well as success
* I work incredibly hard to improve no matter my starting point
* I have kept state secrets and will keep them until they’re declassified in 50 years. Client integrity will be just as important to me.
Weaknesses = Perspective
* look up from the details into broader context of what motivates the people in my team or opposite me
Motivate Slacking Analyst
This experience is meant to be training so they can accomplish their future career goals = it is NOT wasted time
Sit down and find new skills soft & technical they can improve with every project
Check-in periodically to make sure they’re still progressing their highest priority skills
Failure Story
My startup failed!
2.5 years of grinding work and it still failed due a combination of factors outside my control
= team that was uncommitted, and more senior so I couldn’t change their decisions
= investors who weren’t willing to give us runway to prove our product
Pick myself up and find another avenue to use the skills I had learned
= managing teams toward a goal
= prioritization of work in a nebulous environment
= logical thinking
I found an opportunity and ran with it, built a new career.
Success Story / Proudest Accomplishment
Evacuating 1m+ Ukrainian civilians from Eastern Ukraine across Dnipro River.
- went from sleepy world of hypotheticals to all hands on deck and sleeping in our offices
- parallels to investment banking = we were in a critical support role, providing intelligence, that directly impacted the lives of Ukrainian civilians and NATO troops
- we worked long hours, slept in our offices, and created a real-time situational map of Ukrainian terrain, weather conditions, and Russian troop movements that allowed us to direct refugees
- over 1m+ people made it across the Dnipro by the end of my 3 months on that project
Successfully led a team
TBD
Overcame a challenge
TBD
Turned around a team / worked with difficult teammate
TBD
Performed under pressure / struggled with a deadline
Not about single project or problem = prioritization of many different projects
Disagreed with someone senior
TBD
Incorporated diversity into team or challenge
TBD
Solved complex problem using data
TBD
Quick decision with imperfect information
TBD
What will you do if we don’t give you a job
First, I will be disappointed, because I would love to work here.
But then I would pick myself up and go to the other ten plus banks I’m in the process with, and know that one of them will give me a shot to prove myself.
And I will spend the next few years providing to them, with my talent and work, that I was worth they chance they took on me.
How do you manage analysts?
Early associate = we’re splitting work
