Investment Banking Interview Ju-Jutsu: How to Spin Your Weaknesses Into Strengths and Answer the Tough Questions

“So, what exactly have you been doing since graduation? Did you go through recruiting last year and just not get any offers?”

“Can you tell me with a straight face that you’d really prefer working here in Idaho rather than New York?”

Sometimes you get questions you just can’t answer truthfully. It’s like your interviewer has you pressed up against a wall and he’s about to finish you off with a fatality.

So how do you get out of it and still land the offer?

You use ju-jutsu to turn your perceived weakness into a strength, and unleash a fierce counter-attack on your interviewer.