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Dear readers – I am moving this blog to a new domain under the URL www.ueberflieger.net . For now, the new site will look identical so you won’t miss anything if you’ve been a content reader of this site. The main reason I am moving is that I want to change the focus of “high [...]
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This is a list of interview questions I prepared for applicants from my business school. Lots of questions are easy if you follow the markets and have been in the field before, but for career changers there is actually a lot to prepare! Also check out my sales and trading interview reading list! Technical questions [...]
In 2007, I interviewed for hedge fund and investment banking jobs and was asked some pretty interesting questions along the way. I am sharing these so you are prepared and are not thrown off guard in your interviews. Overall I found the hedge funds much more innovative in asking questions, while the banks ask the [...]
I wrote this piece of advice while recruiting for McKinsey and it was one of the most popular posts on my blog during business school, so I wanted to make sure to share this with you. —————————– Knowing that I was off to business school, I volunteered to take part in a recruiting event at [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I met a friend in Hyde Park, and knowing that I was working in a male dominated environment and was interested in gender issues at work, she asked me what I thought about her cousin’s choice of career. Apparently her cousin wanted to become an anesthesiologist, but her mother had [...]
I wrote this post in May 2006 while still working at McKinsey. I used to run a very popular blog on my life as a consultant during this time, and this one one of the most popular posts that many readers found very helpful, so I am reposting this here for anyone interested in what [...]
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