Graduate Training Session session 3

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Graduate Training Session session 3

• ON-LINE APPLICATIONS
• Questions

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WHY ON-LINE APPLICATIONS

• Quick and efficient
• User-friendly
• Facilitates screening
• Uses different techniques to traditional
  application methods
• Traditional method for GTP recruitment

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PROCESS

• Co may ask contact questions before getting to
  the official questionnaire
• Take time answering questions print out
  application and draft an answer
• Take care with language use buzz words, corporate
  jargon
• Dont be too long (some Co put limits on word
  use)

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• Beware of viruses (attachments)
• Send cover letter/cv in body of mail
• If asked to send cover letter separately write up
  short introductory mail
• Keep records of applications for interview
  purposes

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On-line applications

• The application
• Understanding the question
• How to reply
• Vocabulary to use
• Concrete models

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FULL LENGTH APPLICATION
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Understanding the questionCorporate perspective

• Financial services as an industry
• Homework
• Curiosity
• Web site
• In depth knowledge?
• ? as a company
• Differentiate between types of company
• Knowledge of company roles
• Attraction to this company
• Contribution to this companys activities

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• What roles are you interested in?
• Good indication of what is offered
• Show of motivation and consistency
• Fit with own personal ambitions
• Open to other opportunities
• Why this GTP?
• No copy and paste formula
• Show motivation for this specific course
• Desire to receive all-round mgt skills

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Understanding the questionPersonal perspective

• How would you describe yourself
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Ability and desire to learn
• Personal attributes
• Describe involvement in ex-curricular activities
• Capacity to balance academic and ex curricular
  activities
• Broad range of activities
• Open-mindedness
• Engagement
• Leadership skills

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How to reply

• Level of English perfect
• Proof of analytical skills
• Capacity to resume
• Dont overuse I
• Link experience to competencies gained
• Vocabulary choice
• Technical terms
• Diversity
• Wide range
• STAR for competency based questions

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Vocabulary to use

• PROFESSIONAL
• On web-site
• Sector orientated
• Clear
• Concise
• Simple
• Not exaggerated
• Non repetitive

• PERSONAL
• Dont overuse I
• Use word list
• Active verbs
• Check over

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Concrete modelsProfessional aspect

• JPMorgan as a company?
• The engagement of JP Morgan for communities is
  also something that appeals to me. I believe that
  successful companies have a responsibility toward
  populations in need. They are models for their
  development. Moreover successful companies should
  give back to society what they have benefited.
• JP Morgan is a very attractive place to develop
  fundamental hard and soft skills. In addition to
  top-five league table rankings, it ranks in the
  Businessweek top-ten best places to launch a
  career.
• As part of its strategy, JP Morgan gives
  priority to environmental issues like mortgage
  granting on environmental impact conditions.
• Why interested in a GTP?
• I am interested in a Graduate Training Programme
  because I know that it is the most interesting,
  challenging and safest way to integrate a
  multinational company, develop its management
  skills and to come along well in it.

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• Financial services as an industry?
• Financial services represent a huge industry made
  of gorgeous companies, which provide essential
  financial services to their customers.JP Morgan,
  with assets on 1.3 trillion and more than 160 000
  employees across 50 countries, is one of the
  leading firms.
• Financial services have characteristics, which
  made the industry very attractive
• One is the diversity of jobs. For example, JP
  Morgan Chase encompasses 6 lines of business and
  proposes many different opportunities Every
  people can do different positions and finally
  find what suit him best.
• Explain the skills you have developed which make
  you potentially suited?
• Then, my different internships brought me
  essential skills to work in a bank, particularly
  for the position of sales, which is my ultimate
  objective my experiences in as a sales
  manager and in as a purchaser taught me
  business relationships with European and American
  people whereas my experience as an auditor in
  showed me analytical way of thinking how
  to be accurate, understandable, pleasant with
  clients and on time, when I coped with difficult
  deadlines.

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• Explain the skills you have developed which make
  you potentially suited?
• As a student, I initiated and organized
  participations to student simulation
  competitions, Euromanager in and Danone
  Trust Game in Being the team leader of the
  winning team of the Danone Trust Game
  illustrates my pro-activeness, my team work and
  organizational skills. I set up the team by
  recruiting the members with a great attention to
  group dynamics as well as diversity. It proved to
  be an efficient team. I overviewed the
  application process. During the game, I motivated
  and supported other members. Furthermore, I drove
  issues resolutions and insured suitable decisions
  were made on time. This competition resembled
  real working conditions analysis, decision
  making, setting up and delivering presentations
  on a team environment. All steps performed under
  time constraints and exceptional conditions such
  as answering questions from a CEO and executives.
  

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• What is your motivation to work in sales in the
  chosen markets?
• Moreover, I wish to be able to evolve in an
  international context. In other words, I wish to
  gain further understanding of your company "from
  the inside" while moving within several
  international markets. Through my studies and
  internships I have really come to appreciate to
  what extent international mobility has
  contributed to my maturity and evolution.
• I want to continue in self-development and
  fulfil my potential, and so am not at all daunted
  by the prospect of gaining responsibilities
  within your company as quickly as possible and to
  be able to take an active role in your success at
  an international level.

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CONCRETE MODELS PERSONAL ASPECTHOW WOULD YOU
DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

• Analyse carefully
• Are you sure you have understood the question
• What are they seeking
• In regard to the company profile
• Draw out relevant skills qualities
• Show competencies required only
• Give examples
• Competencies developed and used

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DESCRIBE A TIME WHEN YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED
SUCCESSFULLY TO A TEAM, OUTLINE YOUR ROLE,THE
IMPACT YOU HAD ON THE WORK OF THE TEAM AND THE
OUTCOME

• Summarise the teams goal
• Clear objective / goal
• What influence you had
• Acting as a facilitator
• Coordinating the members
• Planning the schedule
• Explain individual results
• Precision
• Leadership skills
• Explain collective results
• Team building
• Capacity to federate

• STAR
• Situation
• Task
• Action
• Result

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DESCRIBE A DIFFICULT PROBLEM THAT YOU HAVE
SOLVED. DESCRIBE THE ACTIONS TAKEN AND THE
RESULTS. WHAT ALTERNATIVE APPROACH COULD HAVE
BEEN TAKEN

• What was the problem
• Analytical skills
• Complexity of the problem
• Capacity to identify problem areas
• Rationale used for key issues
• application of which competencies
• Mechanisms used and outcome
• Problem solving skills
• Credible alternatives
• Initiation
• creativity

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OUTLINE A CHALLENGING PROJECT ACTIVITY OR EVENT
WHICH YOU HAVE MANAGED.STATE OBJECTIVE
ADAPTATATIONS NECESSARY AND HOW YOU MEASURED
PERFORMANCE

• Explain project
• State goal and time frame
• Show steps to achieve goal
• Display logic and progress
• Adaptation should reflect change in
  circumstances/addition info
• Measurement of performance linked to objectives

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Vocab sites

• http//resume.monster.com/archives/samples/
• www.prospects.ac.uk/links/AppsInterviews
• http//www.blueskyinterviews.co.uk/int_art01.htm
• http//www.howtobooks.co.uk/employment/interviews/
  competency-based.asp
• http//www.kent.ac.uk/careers/compet/skillquest.ht
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Simulators

• Online tests
• http//www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html
• http//www.psl.co.uk/practice/
• Personality questionnaires
• http//www.peoplemaps.com/user-registration.php

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