Why do you feel this is the right move for your career right now?
The European investment bank has a webpage dedicated to offering advice on crafting your resume and cover let, tips for your application process and recorded assessments, and even offers some interview advice as well: "Practice, practice, practice: with a friend, in front of a mirror or on video. Assess your ability to talk about yourself, your competencies, and your experiences. Collect your experiences: prepare a wide range of brief stories, with concrete examples, about the professional experiences, competencies and results that might be relevant to the role. This will make it easier for you to bring them to mind on the day of your interview. Tell your story in a structured way, following a simple order to show: the context, your specific role, behaviour and contribution, what the outcome was and what you learned. Research: spend some time reading material and information about the Bank, the department/division to which you are applying and its activities. You can retrieve a huge amount of information from our website, our social media or from the news. Show us that you care."
"It has been my goal for some time to work my way up to qualifying for a career move into the EIB. So I ticked off the checklist for my career goals until I finally felt I met all the criteria to compete for a role like this one. So here I am. No company better aligns with my priorities, nor any other organization I would be proud to work with. Climate and environmental sustainability, the advancement of health and life science, and investing in sustainable energy and natural resources are all important to me, and I want to work for a company I can stand behind with pride."
When answering questions about the arc of your career, give your story so far a beginning, middle, and end. Share with them who you are, as the character of your story, where you've come from, how you got here, and where you hope to go together as partners in a professional relationship. Show them how your values align and what you both stand to gain from working together.
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