QUOTE(Gaius B @ Jun 21 2012, 09:57 PM)
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Your main focus was on academics, not a question about soft skills. What if your candidate not telling you his/her actual results but seeking on what the interviewer wants? From what I see, your aim is to look for candidate with good academic results, rather than soft skills. Perhaps changing your topic title may help filter out certain candidates and save your time reviewing each candidate one by one.
Through your post knowing that you're busy with long working hours, can understand that maybe you don't have the time to read through the resume and mainly focus in academic results. My humble advice, academic, knowledge can be improved by time, personality is hard to change. Also, don't judge the book by its cover, people may be judging you the other way round.
Normally ppl dun under declare their results when going through IB interview.
every IB will ask ur results. Big or small.
Even if no more ppl queuing outside IB, we dun need to drop standard.
I am a kinder Ibanker around, giving most people a chance to explain why their results are full of BCD along the way. Others wont even look at it at all.
The fact that you are not impressive, it could well mean u r just not ready for my type of IB.
We are not looking for candidate with good academic results. We are looking at hard working ppl, who can learn really fast. Fast learner dun need to be very hard working and can score reasonably well. For most ppl, C are hard to come by.
The real investment banker quality kinda brain, even he go to school and play everyday, chances are they score half A half B. or average B. If you have average C, I seriously doubt u would be able to do investment banking.