JP Morgan 3

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

3. How do you manage your schedule when you have multiple projects competing for your time?

Answer 2

• Google calendar, productivity apps,
• effective communications
• making sure time is being spent efficiently (setting timers for work etc.)

Question 3

3. Tell me about a time when you were confused about how to approach a project or task. What steps did you take to get clarity?

Answer 3

• badger
• confused about report, gave it my best attempt
• felt embarrassed to ask
• decided to ask, asked to sit down with manager for 15 minutes to discuss assignment
• manager was happy to help and the meeting resulted in submitting an assignment i was very confident in, teaching me that its okay not to know everything, and the most important thing are the steps you take to learn

Question 4

3. How do you build relationships with team members outside of your immediate department?

Answer 4

• reach out say hi
• greatest skill is ability to network
• badger: interns were often in differetn departments, still made effort to connect

Question 5

3. How do you handle stressful situations?

Answer 5

• my first step is typically meditation
• i believe the best way to approach any stressful situation is with a clear head
• i then plan my course of action
• determine what is feasible and what is not feasible
• i take comfort is realizing that if something is within my control, then i have the tools to resolve the stressful situation regardless of how difficult it may be, and that there is no reason to stress
• furthermore, if the situation is out of my control, i also take comfort in realizing that the situation is what it is and again there is nothing to be stressed about, and that I should instead focus my attention on next steps

Question 6

3. Can you describe any of the company’s other business principles?

Answer 6

• Four core business principles
• operational excellence, integrity fairness and responsibility, customer focus and teamwork
• all of these came up in my conversation with ibraheem
• to me, operational excellence means always putting your best work forward
• integriy and responsibilty means taking ownership for the work that you do
• customer focus means working and serving others to the best of your ability
• teamwork means fostering a healthy and happy community
• if hired, I intend to apply all of these principles to my work, which will be very easy to do as I hold all of these principles close to my heart as well.