JP Morgan 2

Question 1

Tell me about yourself

Answer 1

• Who you are:
  
  • Eishan
  • Third year finance student at UBC
• Where you’ve been
  
  • UBC (Teamwork)
  • Badger Infrastructure (Operational Excellence)
  • DSW (Customer Focus)
• Why you are here
  
  • Spoke to financial analyst at Jp Morgan named Ibraheem who had gone through this program, and we spoke for over an hour about his experience.
  • The more we spoke the more it became clear that my skillset in customer service, financial planning and analysis and teamwork would make me an exceptional fit at the organization

Question 2

2. Tell me about a time you took a risk at work

Answer 2

• Badger
• took initiative to create spreadsheet (daily sales chart) without approval on formatting
• spreadsheet format was wrong, but he was grateful and appreciative that i took the initiative to start it on my own rather than wait for his instructions even though I was not fully confident

Question 3

2. Tell me about a time when you had a positive impact on a project. How did you measure your success?

Answer 3

• Operator Onboarding Form
• Manage trucks utilized by organization
• ‘bible’ for operators
• difficult aligning goals with all interns
• took the initiative to sit everyone down and go over the task as well as our respective goals and visions
• reached a common ground and put out a document that we were all happy with
• final product received a lot of praise, and targeted the final goal so effectively that it is actually being used by the company right now

Question 4

2. Tell me about a time you had to deliver feedback to a member of your team?

Question 5

2. Describe the latest new technology you used to become more productive at work.

Answer 5

Todoist, Streaks, Google Calendar

• tracking positive habits
• being cognitive of how i spend my time (maximize operational efficiency)
• schedule meetings (being a good team member)

Question 6

2. Explain how you believe JPMorgan Chase embodies its business principle of operational excellence.

Answer 6

• offers financial services at the highest level
• this means two things: quality and timelines
• Spoke to Ibraheem (clear, high standard expectations)
• this is also reflective of jp morgans ability to handle the fast paced financial environment (mention jp morgan market cap compared to bank of america)

Question 7

What are you strengths and weaknesses?

Answer 7

1) good team work/ strong communication
2) ambitious
3) organized
W) Struggle to say no (not a people pleaser)