Banking Questions

 

                                                                            Retail Banking

·        Why do you want to enter banking?

·        Have you applied to any other areas apart from banking?

·        How do you feel about committing yourself to professional training courses?

·        Tell me about an experience in which you had to use tact?

·        Are you willing to be mobile?

·        Who are our major competitors and what differences do you notice in our products?

·        What significant trends do you see in the future for our industry?

·        Have you any questions?

 

Other questions students have been asked at banking interviews: About your study, work experience and skills

• Tell me about a time when you introduced a new concept/idea at work.
• Think of a time when you made a mistake. What did you do? What was the result? What did you learn from this experience?
• Tell me about a time when you have dealt with a difficult situation/a difficult customer at work.
• Tell me about a time when you worked in a team. How did you delegate what each person had to do?
• Describe a time at school when you showed leadership/took control of a situation.
• Describe a time at work when you coped with a difficult problem.
• Tell me about a time where you had to collaborate with others towards success. How did you contribute? What was your role? What problems did you encounter? What would you do differently if you had to do this again? What did you learn?
• Where do you see yourself in five to ten years?
  
   

   

   

  Investment Banking
  
  
  

  ·              Why do you want to go into investment banking?
  
  

  ·              Why have you applied to us?
  
  

  ·              What specific function are you interested in, and why?
  
  

  ·              Why I-Banking vs. Consulting? Sales & Trading? Research? Finance in Industry?
  
  

  ·              Tell me about a time when you have had to work with others to achieve a specific goal
  
  

  ·              How does your past career qualify you for a position in investment banking? Why are you not going back to prior career?
  
  

  ·              What department do you want to work for inside I-banking and why?
  
  

  ·              If you were the CEO of our firm, what major changes would you implement?
  
  

  ·              Describe a typical day of an investment banking associate?
  
  

  ·              Do you understand the lifestyle issues associated with this profession? Why don't you have an problem with these issues?
  
  

  ·              What is your greatest concern about investment banking?
  
  

  ·              Have you any questions to ask us?
  

   

Other questions students have been asked at banking interviews: About your study, work experience and skills

• Tell us about your degree course and why you chose it?
• Tell us about your work experience.
• How can you relate your studies and experience to your work with us?
• Tell us your strengths and weaknesses.
• What skills do you think you can bring to us?
• What would you friends say is your strongest point?
• Why should we hire you and not someone else?
• How do you prioritise your work at the moment?
• Where do you see yourself in 2-5 years?