J.P. Morgan

Be specific to JPM and the CIB: its scale and league table position, a group or deal, or its business principles, tied to your own goals. Avoid generic 'biggest bank' lines.

Name a specific product or coverage area, show you know what it does day to day, and connect it to a genuine interest or experience.

For a spring week, motivation is everything: what you want to learn, why now, and why JPM specifically. Show curiosity and a clear reason you applied here rather than anywhere.

A coherent story linking what you enjoy about the work to what JPM specifically offers. This is one of the settled questions at the assessment centre, so make it specific.

STAR. Show empathy and composure: what the tension was, how you understood the other side, and how you reached a workable outcome.

Show real collaboration: your role, a disagreement you navigated, and the result. Tie it to JPM's team first culture.

STAR: you drove the outcome, brought people with you, handled a setback, delivered a result. Emphasise how you led.

Maps to JPM's principle of integrity, fairness and responsibility. Show the dilemma, how you reasoned, and that you did the right thing even when it was hard.

Pick something current, explain why it matters and its knock on effects, and give a considered view. Use the Market Pulse feed to prep.

The parties, the rough size, the rationale, and your own view on whether it makes sense. Keep it current and be ready for follow ups.

Project unlevered free cash flow, discount at WACC, add a terminal value, sum to enterprise value, then bridge to equity value and per share. Be crisp and know each input.

Income statement (performance over a period), balance sheet (a snapshot that must balance), cash flow statement (net income back to cash). Then show how they link.

Sources and uses, a debt schedule, cash used to pay down debt, then exit. Returns come from debt paydown, EBITDA growth and multiple expansion. Know which matters most.