It's job interview season on Wall Street.
Over the coming weeks and months, recruiters from top investment banks will meet with tens of thousands of students on college campuses and during in-house interviews.
For anyone hoping to build a career in finance, this is your chance to show your stuff.
To help you out, Morgan Stanley published a list of the 10 most common mistakes its senior interviewers encounter in job interviews.
Wherever you end up interviewing, these are definitely things you want to avoid.
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1. Not doing the research.
"It's the single biggest and most common mistake made: Going into a job interview without having researched what the job involves, or what the division does. If you're going for an Investment Banking position, know what deals the firm has done recently and be prepared to speak about their highlights."
2. Not wanting the job.
"Don't tell us you're applying for a particular job just so you can get a foot in the door for a different role. It's OK to have a long-term career goal of working with external clients, for example, but you need to explain why you are interested in starting out in a non-client-facing position you might be interviewing for, how it fits your skill-set and helps your longer-term career objective."
3. Padding the Resume.
"Don't put things on your CV that you can't live up to. Everything on there is fair game, so you need to be able to elaborate on every line. If you say you are fluent in a certain language, then we'll expect you can prove it."
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