How To Answer the 7 Most Important Sales & Trading Interview Questions

The key to acing a sales and trading interview is preparation—and beginning your preparation as soon as possible. It’s a lot easier to begin learning finance concepts gradually than it is to become a fixed-income derivatives expert in two weeks. It’s also a lot easier to gradually research and learn about current events that affect stock and bond markets than have to cram the night before your interview. So start reading The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, and other business periodicals now.

To help you further prepare, below are some of the most common (and important) interview questions you’ll face in sales and trading interviews. It’s essential that you know how to answer these questions, and that you answer them well.

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How an MBA Enriched My Passion for Healthcare

Karina Cabanillas, Senior Advisor, Enterprise Product Innovation & Development at CVS Health, is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She has worked in various capacities within the healthcare industry. Speaking with Vault, Karina shares how pursuing her MBA gave her a new perspective on the work she’d done in healthcare consulting and the non-profit world, and how those experiences prepared her for a career at CVS Health.

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Tags: Healthcare

Put Down Your Phone, Pick Up Your Fork: How to Unplug on Thanksgiving

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, many of us are already fantasizing about the delicious aromas of our parents’ kitchens or dreading relatives’ inevitable barrage of questions about our careers and personal lives. If you work this week, you’re probably wrapping things up over the next day or so. But once that final email is sent, how many of us will actually unplug for the long weekend?

According to data released by LinkedIn in July, 70% of professionals are unwilling to unplug during vacation. In today’s hyper-connected world, it’s all too easy to succumb to the habit of checking emails when you’re supposed to be off. Disconnecting completely from work might be easier during the holidays, when most of our coworkers are also unavailable. Still, it’s hard to resist the urge to check in on that last item you couldn’t resolve before powering down your office computer.

Even the most phone-obsessed workaholic needs some R&R and quality time with loved ones over the holiday weekend. Here are some tips for unplugging this Thanksgiving, when the only thing that should be glued to your hand is your fork.

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Which Social Media Channels Do Hiring Managers Check?

The rumors are true: HR managers do look over your social media pages before making a final decision on your hiring. So to find out what exactly hiring managers are looking for on social media, we spoke with Jenna Richardson, an HR Manager at Infobase Holdings (Vault’s parent company). Jenna, who has several years of HR experience, shared her expertise to give us a deeper look into how hiring managers use social media during the hiring process. Here are four takeaways from our conversation.

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Tags: Branding, Job Search, Social Media

Why I Love Working for McKinsey

“Being an associate at McKinsey, based in Japan, opened my eyes to the meaning and importance of a variety of industries and different leadership styles.”

I’m Naomi, and I’m an associate in [McKinsey’s] Tokyo office. I joined McKinsey about two years ago, after finishing my MBA at the University of Columbia. I stay at McKinsey for several reasons; here are the most important:

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CareerSchooled Updates

Good News! – We launched an eBook to help you find a job! Check out our Career Search Strategy Guide today!

Latest From CareerSchooled
How to Succeed in a New Job
“First impressions mean a lot, which is why it’s really important to start off a new job in a positive manner. While it’s unreasonable to expect to knock it out of the park right away, investing the time and being proactive about beginning your job will set yourself up for longer term success.”

The Role of Luck In The Job Search

“Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.”

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The Best Bosses Are Humble Bosses
“Teams with humble leaders performed better and did higher-quality work than teams whose leaders exhibited less humility… The performance gains held up independently of how much team leaders exhibited other positive leadership qualities unrelated to humility.”

10 questions to ask in your job interview
“This is a job that you’re considering spending 40 or more hours at a week, a job that might have a huge impact on your career and your quality of life for years to come. You should have questions!”

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Tags: First 90 Days, Job Search

Summer Internship: Plan B

It’s that time of year—leaves are crunching, turkey prices have skyrocketed, and someone in your neighborhood’s putting up their holiday decorations way too early. Summer is probably the furthest thing from your mind, but it shouldn’t be! Right now—yes, now—is when all those big corporate companies have their deadlines for summer internships. I hope your CV is nice and shiny.

Despite how many interns these places can take (and they take a lot—Seattle had to expand its public transportation system last year to accommodate all of Amazon’s interns), competition is stiff. Companies like Google, Bank of America, and Facebook are extremely selective with their summer hires. Still, apply! I’m not telling you not to follow your dreams, apply wherever you’d like. But you should also temper your expectations. Anxiety goes with application season like pumpkin spice goes with lattes (and candles and even Pop-Tarts, this year). I usually found myself catastrophizing to the tune of: But if I don’t get into any of the places I applied to then it’ll be too late to apply to anywhere else by the time I hear back and then I’ll have to get a summer job on a shrimp boat and because it’s my only work experience I’ll be the only shrimp boat captain with a Master’s degree.

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The Best Internships for 2019

Today, we released our latest Internship Rankings. This year, our annual Internship Rankings highlight the top internship programs in 16 categories, including Most Prestigious Internships, Best Overall Internships, several Best Industry-Specific Internships, and the programs offering the best Quality of Life, Career Development, Compensation & Benefits, Employment Prospects, and Diversity (this is the first year we’ve ranked internship programs in Diversity).

This past summer, Vault surveyed more than 13,000 current and former interns from more than 120 internship programs. In addition to asking respondents to rate and review their own internship experiences for our 2019 Best Internships Rankings, we asked interns to rate the prestige of other employers, to determine which internships are the most desirable.

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Tags: Internships, Job Search

CareerSchooled Updates

The Role of Luck
I’ve been thinking alot lately about the role of luck, especially as it pertains to the jobs and careers. Sometimes just being in the right place and the right time can make all the difference. This idea of luck was made clear to me after I sat on a career panel last week where 4 other people and I recounted all the ways we were lucky in our own job search and careers. Yes, you still need to work hard and do the work (which all of us did) but even with that we all need a few breaks to go our way. You can read more thoughts about this here.

This Week’s Career Articles
Everybody’s Got a Plan Until They Get Punched in The face – While it would be great if finding a new job was a turnkey process, there are lots of unexpected twists and turns along the way. As Mike Tyson once said, “everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the face.” Check out this article on how you can handle the twists and turns of the job search process.

To Land a Great Job Talk About Why You Love Your Work – Most job applicants know to talk about the qualifications and strengths in a job interview, but new research suggests that there’s another thing you should talk about, and that’s your love and passion for your work. Here’s some tips on how to do that in your next interview .

The Phone Interview Cheat Sheet – Phone interviews are tricky, but with the right preparation you’ll be just fine. Check out Glassdoor’s phone interview cheat sheet to guide you through your next interview.

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Tags: Job Search

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