How to Sign Up for the Best Interview Guide Around at a 30% Discount, and Get Free Bonuses

Let’s cut to the chase: the best investment banking interview guide ever created is now available, and you can click here to sign up at a 30% discount (NOTE: This promotion is now over. Thanks for your interest!)

You can also sign up for one of several package deals, including one where you get two mock interviews with me (which I haven’t even offered since 2009).

This special promotion ends on Friday, August 17th, 2012 at 5 PM New York time (that’s about 28 hours from the current time, as I write this).

So you need to act quickly to take advantage of it – everything returns to normal and the price increases right after the deadline.

What You Get, and How This Guide is Different

In case you’re just joining us and missed the announcement post last week, most existing interview guides take the following approach:

1. Here’s a bunch of qualitative, or “fit,” questions and answers…
2. Oh yeah, and then here are the technical questions and answers.
3. That’s it. Good luck with your interview!

While this is better than nothing at all, there are a few big problems with this approach:

1. Interviewers are not stupid. They know that almost everyone has read these guides, so they avoid the common questions you always see and put twists on traditional questions.
2. If you don’t understand the concepts in the first place, reviewing lists of dozens or hundreds of questions and answers is useless. It’s called “review” for a reason.

Our New Approach

This new version is based on understanding the key concepts behind all the questions – both qualitative and technical. Here’s the approach we use:

1. Learn the concepts first via tutorials for each section.
2. See real-life examples of the concepts in action, via Excel files, video tutorials, and sample answers.
3. Finally, practice yourself and test your understanding.

Here’s what that means more specifically:

• Since “telling your story” is the most important part of any interview, you get a full tutorial and 15 templates you can pick from, depending on your background.
• The 15 “Fit” sections now all have instructions on how to prepare your answer in advance and how to structure your answers, plus detailed instructions for each question and sample “good” answers.
• The 6 main technical sections (Accounting, Equity Value / Enterprise Value, Valuation, DCF, Merger Model, and LBO Model) all now have tutorials with screen shots and diagrams on the most important points (100+ pages total), as well as 5 Excel templates and 6 video tutorials.
• And then you can test your knowledge with 12 interactive quizzes spanning 326 questions – and check your responses against the answer keys we provide.

And there’s a lot more I’m not even including here – for example, the sample interviews and deal discussions from previous versions of the guide are still here and are still very useful.

Plus the industry-specific Q&As on real estate, oil & gas, banks and insurance, and more.

And What’s In It for You…

This is the best way to prepare for finance interviews and win offers available today.

Yes, it’s called the “investment banking interview guide” because that is the most common search term, but it works for private equity, (some) hedge funds, and other related fields like corporate finance and equity research.

And it sets you up to win internship and job offers more effectively for all of those – unlike most other people going in for interviews, you’ll actually understand the concepts instead of just the answers you’ve memorized.

Plus, since you have lifetime access to the guide, you can use it throughout the years as you interview for other positions in the future…

…or even when you’re in an accounting or finance class and you start falling asleep and wake up even more confused.

But It’s Not Perfect

That said, this guide is not perfect. For example, here’s a comment that was posted on the BIWS site a few hours ago about one of the new sections in the guide:

“Hello Brian,

first of all: This new guide is just amazing! I really like the conceptual approach which helps me getting a thorough understanding of the topics covered.

One question though: In the “DCF Tutorials and Questions and Answers” on page 10 Example #2 it says cash flow is up by $40. Actually I think this should be $30 because the assets have only decreased by $10 – not $20. (AR -10; Inventory +10; PrepExpenses -10).

Again really good job! Videos, Excel, great guides, what more do you want?!”

He was right: there was a typo in this section and it should have been $30 rather than $40.

Luckily, since the guide is 100% online, we corrected it and uploaded a new version right away.

There is a massive amount of text in this guide, and even though ten (10) people contributed and helped edit it, we’re still only human (no one has transformed into Bateman yet) – so there will be small corrections that need to be made.

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The $100,000 Interview Guide

When all is said and done, I invested over $100,000 of my own time, money, and resources into this new guide.

You might ask, “Why? Do you actually expect to make a profit?”

And the answer is NO – at least, not anytime soon.

While the guide is popular, we’d have to sell thousands to ever make back that investment – which won’t happen this month, this year, or maybe even in the next few years.

But I don’t care about doing something that’s profitable in the short-term, because everything on this site and BIWS is designed with a long-term vision in mind.

Many former financiers see this site, or WallStreetOasis, or the modeling training companies out there and think, “Aha! I can put together some guides and spend a month or so on the project, never touch it again, and make money from it!! ”

We take the opposite approach: it’s all about a long-term commitment to creating the best courses around, and then continuously improving them over the years.

So yeah, those free updates really DO benefit you.

NOTE: This promotion is now over. Thanks for your interest!

In the Future

Here’s what else is coming to this new guide in the future:

• Interactive quizzes on the “fit” questions as well (yes, it’s possible to create these).
• Coverage of case studies and assessment centers if you’re in Europe or another region where they’re common.
• More sample interviews and deal discussions with full critiques.
• More industry-specific questions and interactive quizzes on the industry-specific questions.

So this guide will only get better over time and when you sign up now, you’ll get these future updates for free.

We’re actually launching a major site redesign for BIWS very soon, which will make it easier to review all your comments, notes, and quiz questions, among other things – and you get free access to that as well.

What to Do by Friday, August 17th, 2012 at 5 PM New York time

Sign up for the new interview guide at a 30% discount right here.

NOTE: This promotion is now over. Thanks for your interest!

Or select from one of the other package deals listed on the page.

You can also get the full details of what’s included in the guide in the 23-page outline on that page, down to the number of questions in each category and sub-category and the number of pages for each technical tutorial.

Just make sure you sign up by Friday at 5 PM NY time, or you’ll miss out on this discount and the package deals.

Anything Else?

Ask away.

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