JP Morgan Finance Assessment Day

i have one also. has anyone done it?

Hi - i am on step behind you guys - have an interview later this month - my main quesition i would be grateful if you could help with how much emphasis there is with technical questions? or is this just touch upon in the usual motivation type questions? any other points would be gratefully recieved

thank you forum

did you guys have phone interviews etc? in the email i was told group exercise, 2 interviews, numericals again...

Hi guys..

Im a finance grad too..
I applied to JP on deadline day (9th November) yet no response on my application. I applied for investment banking. Any guys apply for the same route and receive feedback yet?

thanks!

Mo

Did you guys get a date for the assessment centre for Finance.

I was told it will be in January but no actual date. And also that all positions will start in September 2009.

Is this the same information everyone is given ?

anyone ?

I got an email today from JP Morgan for a first round interview for the Finance 09 scheme, it mentions in the email that there will be 2 30 mins interviews back to back with managers and alumni, can someone tell me what sort of questions would be asked and how to answer thm. Also it mentions that there might be a numerical test, is it going to be a similar one to the online SHL one.

Replies will be appreciated, Thanks, Hasham

hey I hav an JPM assessment day coming up - altho not for finance what should we all expect from the case study and the presentations?

Hey bus3a2m, could you please give us some information about the first round interview at JP Morgan for Finance.

Thank you.

hi ether,

When do you have the assessment centre and which department and role is it for?

I had passed the interview but received an email saying all places are full for 2009.!!

thanks

ck

Hi there,

I have a first round interview followed by an assessment center on the 19/20th of February. I have applied for finance. did anyone passed the AC? can you please share your experiences? shikamaru86, how did your AC go? Any help would be appreciated!!!! Thanks

hey happy.

is ur postions for intern or grad?

ck

hey CK,

It's for graduate position. How about you?

hey happy

I had passed the interview but received an email saying all places are full for 2009.!!

thanks

ck

hey happy

I had passed the interview but received an email saying all places are full for 2009.!!

thanks

ck

Hey ck, I wonder why they are still assessing, if the places are full??/ I would really be disappointed if they are not recruiting!! So how was your first interview? did you have the numerical test as well??

Thanks,

Does anyone have the assessment centre on the 20th??

Hey, happy123,

I think we r on the same boat. I have one AC with JP for the finance graduate programme on the 20th Feb, so i guess i will see u on this Fri. How is ur preparation going on. To be honest with u, i just started TODAY............ my god...............

hey blessedme,

good to hear there is someone else.... i've started preparation today as well and im not sure what to prepare for to be honest.... apart from the usual company knowledge!!!! do you have anymore info on the group excersise??

hey happy.

I had an email saying i was very good and i had passed the interview.

So i was through to the next round!

But then got ermail saying... all grad 09 places are ful wait for emai in jan and then feb.
got email in jan for waiting in feb.. havent got email for feb, they said early feb!

SO i will be disappointed if there is not good outcome after all this!

ck

Well, I have no idea abt the group exercise at all. At the moment, all i can do is to prepare the competency based interview. Cos we cant really prepare the group excerise, case study or presentation.

Good luck to both of us!

ok i did the finance at JPM before Christmas. i will give as much detail as i can and wont offer more because i am about to bath!

1) you get there early(i did) and then they made you do some logic test where you use pieces of information to try and work out things like time differences you need to see when they can host meeting but have to do it in a way so that everyone can take part because of the time difference of different countries, you also have a scenario where you have to work out patterns etc etc. cant really practice although one guy had done it before at RBS for finance,

then you have the presentation. basically you are given a pack of information which contains information about a merger between two banks. you need to decide what kind of things are important and you need to highlight anything that will come out as a problem. the main thing was that they would be using two different accounting systems. basically draw a few graphs, talk the talk etc.

then you are then told to present it to a real employee who will probably work in the division. and he will as a few questions. a tip is to bring in real life examples and i spoke about employee morale and compared it to barcap and lehman merger (clash of culture)

then after then you get a team exercise based on the presentation. you just did. you have to talk about a system to adopt. basically you should know what to do in these exercises by now. my feed back was that i didn't contribute enough. i was more managing the discussion and debate. people will come in with a game plan. you should too..

after than it was two interview. bog standard, things i remember was what makes a good leader, teamwork etc.

then thats all. please no PMs i wont say more than i have done which is pretty detailed. and i feel that i wrote so much because i had a lot of help from some people i really appreciate. so i am giving back. one thing is that when people don't get offers they usually dont bother writing back. they see no point. and no i didn't get any offers this year, had my last AC last week. but i am hoping that this helps someone and that you too wil share your experience so someone can benefit. :)x

hey Abercrombie!1

waw Thanks!! that was more than usefull, I appreciate your help!! I hope you'll get another opportunity to shine : ) as you seem you did well in the AC.

Good luck blessedme!

Thanks again!

Abercrombie,

Thanks for ur post, really good!

Goo luck CK I hope you will get some good news in the near future!!
X

Hey,
is there anybody who applied for finance internship in JPM? I had an AC on the 29th of Januray but haven't heard anything back from them. I sent an email on the day when they were supposed to give the response and was told they were still considering the apps...should I send them another email or just be patient and wait?....Almost four weeks has passed and it's such a painful waiting...

Thanks, Vilie

hey,

i would just wait... i know the waiting can be very long i am in the same boat but for graduate scheme, waiting to know wen i will b invited for a.c ... since early feb.

Just hang on in there...Im sure there are others in the same postions im sure some one will have emailed recently that will msg on here.

ck

Thanks CK...I'll try to wait for some more time. At least hope that I'm not the only one in the same situatuon...

Vilie

What you guys still havnt heard about the Assessment Centre for Finance? when was the interview? i had my interview on the 19th and they told me there is an A.C on the 19th of March?

hey minty....

i had me interview in december... for graduate role april start....

stil waiting.....

Yours a grad role?

Yup mines in graduate role but September intake-I think they are very busy-Jan intakes, April intake + September intake..Although the Hr lady told me there is an A.C on the 19th of March.

oh thats some gd news at least!!!

what role did u apply for? mine was for technology?

Has anyone had a phonecall saying their app is on hold after having their final AC for finance graduate sept 2009 intake. Any rejections or offers?

good luck evryone

Any idea how many ppl are they looking to take for Finance September Intake? Anyone got an Offer Yet from the 20th Feb A.C?

I dont even know if its worth preparing for the A.C, may be they are done hiring!

Gud Luck Everyone!

I got rejected last week!

Blessedme: I am so sorry to hear that, did u get any feedback?..How did u find the A.C? was it hard?..Dont feel bad its not you its the RECESSION!

Hi Minty,

Thanks for ur message. I am alright, cos I have accepted an offer from another firm before I attended the AC at JP Morgan.

The feedback I got was that my performance in the logical test was below their min requirement. In addition, for the self-awarness interview, I only gave one weakness of mine, which was not enough according to thier criteria. They said I did quite well in the case study, presentation, group discussion and career motivation interview.

On the assessment day, there were 6 candidates in total. (including me). I remembered that one guy said there were only 10 places left for the Sep intake. So if that was the case, you shouldnt really worry too much.

Good luck with ur AC.

Thats gud that have another offer:-) awesum!

Just wanted to know about the Logical Test- I thought the A.C consisted of Case Study, Presentation, Group Excercise and 2 interviews..Please could you tell me if there is any thing like the logical test..was it similar to the SHL online ones or was it related to the case? Thank you so much !!!

The logical test is completely different from the SHL test. Actually, the test itself was not that hard. The main reason why I failed was that I was stuck in one question, and spent too much time trying to figure it out, which left me with only 10 mins to finish the rest of the questions.

Basically, you are given 5 groups of cards to answer 5 questions in 35 mins. Each group is composed of 20 cards, what u have to do is to try to infer the answers from the given cards. Hope this helps.

Who told you there were 10 places. I heard their finance division is very small. They had over a 1000 apps and onlky offer 5-8 places.

So I think evryone done well to get this far.

No, actually this year they have separated the Finance Division from the OFBM division so they need more people. If they took like 5 ppl from the last A.C so there are 5 positions left or may be less :-(

Hey Blessedme and thetheyesthe please could you guys post some of the the interview questions u guys were asked apart from the usual why JP, Why Finance?

Commercial Awareness Qs? or some weird competency ones?

Thank youu SO much

I wish u Guys best of Luck in your job search!!!

Hey Blessedme and thetheyesthe please could you guys post some of the the interview questions u guys were asked apart from the usual why JP, Why Finance?

Commercial Awareness Qs? or some weird competency ones?

Thank youu SO much

I wish u Guys best of Luck in your job search!!!

Hi Minty,

Dont worry at all cos there are no competency questions and commercial awarness questions at all. You only need to prepare for career motivation questions like why jp, why finance, what finance analysts do on a regular basis and what are the impacts of current financial crisis on finance division. I only got asked the above questions. So you will be fine so long as you prepare these questions.

Good luck!

Hi Minty,

Dont worry at all cos there are no competency questions and commercial awarness questions at all. You only need to prepare for career motivation questions like why jp, why finance, what finance analysts do on a regular basis and what are the impacts of current financial crisis on finance division. I only got asked the above questions. So you will be fine so long as you prepare these questions.

Good luck!

Hi Minty,

Dont worry at all cos there are no competency questions and commercial awarness questions at all. You only need to prepare for career motivation questions like why jp, why finance, what finance analysts do on a regular basis and what are the impacts of current financial crisis on finance division. I only got asked the above questions. So you will be fine so long as you prepare these questions.

Good luck!

Hi Minty,

Dont worry at all cos there are no competency questions and commercial awarness questions at all. You only need to prepare for career motivation questions like why jp, why finance, what finance analysts do on a regular basis and what are the impacts of current financial crisis on finance division. I only got asked the above questions. So you will be fine so long as you prepare these questions.

Good luck!

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Hi minty,
The case study is not computer based. Neither is the logical test. They are all paper based. Just to let you know that the recruitment process for risk management is different from that of Finance and OFBM.