My LBS interview date was set one week after I received the interview invitation. I firstly wrote an email to the Alumnus who is also in Taipei and we quickly set our date. We met in an Café in a department store on Saturday morning. We firstly had chitchats using Chinese and then after ordering our drink, we switched to English mode and the interview started promptly.
The questions were as follows:
- Tell me about yourself?
- Tell me about your travels (other than the one I wrote in my essays). What memorable things about them? What do you learned? (I talked about my previous travels to UK, Spain, and Japan) He kept on asking me about the meanings behind those experiences.
- Your ultimate career goal is to be a CFO, why you haven’t got a CFA license? (then we talked about this qualification question for about 20 mins)
- Have you consider to pursue a career in equity research which will be more relevant to your previous BG? (my current job is Assistant Manager in Deloitte, I want to be an mgt. consultant right after graduation).
- What are your strengths and weakness? Are you good at delegation?
- Have you started to prepare for case interviews? Have you applied to consulting firms like Mckinsey? Why not?
- Have you tried to switch functions within Deloitte?
- Elaborate on an experience mentioned by your recommenders. (this one is like a reality check I guess…)
- Why other schools? Why LBS (he interrupted me when I started to talk about things in the essay)
Apparently, the interviewer has studied my application materials carefully and didn’t waste time on repeating them. Afterwards, he asked me whether I have thing to mention. I then talked about my hobbies and my leadership styles.
My presentation topic was something about the recent strike by Qantas Airline. If I am the CEO, what measures will I take and what are the things that I should concern. I have read this news in the Economist two weeks ago but my presentation was just okay I guess… not very impressive. 🙁
Then is the question to the interviewer. I asked him about a dozen of prepared questions.
Overall, the interview was 2.5 hours long. Except for the impromptu presentation, the whole process was quite easygoing and filled with many interactions between us. I think my performance was not perfect but has done my best to express myself. Hope there will be good news soon!!
(Update) Result: Rejected
