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先送个礼物给英国留学生，我们都可以在NHS申请Hc2表，这样配眼镜，验光，开药等等都会非常便宜。只要是低收入人群，都可以申请，就是要先填一个HC1表，那个表nhs诊所里都有。一般一个月内就能拿到hc2表，以后用这个方便多了。举个例子，我配的眼镜原价260磅，有了那个表，只交了150磅。可惜那个表格配眼镜折扣两年内只能用一次，但是向开药，验光，都将是无限免费的。手头紧的不妨申申。 第二个礼物，想找工作的同学，可以试试seo-london，一个慈善机关专门帮助留学生找工作的。曾经有个朋友被fast-track到barclay的ac，可惜没过。但也听说不少通过这个机构找到工作的留学生。SEO 会帮助留学英国的少数民族AKA中国留学生们提供各种帮助，我亲身体验过，帮助还是很有用的。
以下又是各种日记的粘合，难免有很多不连贯之处，望谅解。
SEO-london telephone interview (professional services) (2012-11-23 22:36:23)[编辑][url=][删除][/url][url=] 转载▼[/url]
正当我找工作1个月后快绝望时，希望来了。正找工作的同僚们，加油吧!
这周来了6个interview，看来自己还是很有价值的。
SEO 刚刚的interview，说好了2点，迟到了10分钟，害得我紧张的感觉都没了。
本来想好了申请consulting，结果面试官一句招满了，前功尽弃。后来迅速选择tax。很多人问我为啥tax？愿意简单，我看了肖申克救赎里面andy对各种税法的驾轻就熟后，就想做tax了。
面试官还让我在linkedin 上面找到了，四大的，而且facebook上面也有，而且还是party的照片==
以下问题：
1. time manage several deadline?
2. team working?
3. time analyze a large amount of data?
4. overcome your weakness?
5. proudest achievement?
6. a time persuaded someone to agree withyou?
总体说还是很nice的，一直告诉我放松，15分钟感觉很快就过去了。
kpmg-london-graduate-tax-2012-telephone interview（kpmg伦敦电面） (2012-01-16 05:03:09)[编辑][url=][删除][/url][url=]转载▼[/url]
刚收通知过了phone面，记下来好给后来人/自己用。
新年期间兴奋的碰到2个巴勒斯坦人，了解了她们的国情。原来她们国家是不允许出国的，就连书店都没有，原因就是没有机场，她们的领空不是自己的。感觉有点像朝鲜，一聊之下才知道原来巴勒斯坦国书本都是网上下载后打印的，因为书也不让卖。两个女生都经历过丧亲之痛，2012倒计时时许的愿望--世界和平，不和以色列打仗。相比之下，相形见绌。本以为巴基斯坦人都是想做人体炸弹的。。希望她们能够愿望成真！
转入正题，wikijob帮了不少，如下几个被问的题：
1_why tax? (problem solving, changing environment)
2_proudest achievement? (taichi club,正好前两天刚总结完，看来写日志没坏处)
3. a company doing bad? (mentioned nomura, boss left)
4. a company infulenced by current economic climate? (said kpmg,can't think any else)
5. a time manage multitask? (currently involvedin taichi club, master studying, volunteer, takwon do)
6. a time meet client needs? ( bank of china experience, agentlement came to ask how to open LC, explainedaccording to rules)
7. A time doing Repetitive work and outcome?(so many of them want to say--studying/readingpapers :P but chose bank of china exp--checkingaccuracy of work by colleagues for 5 days)
8. A situational question: A time you have a work given by urboss for an important client in the afternoon, have to finish today(takes half day to finish). Meanwhile, yourother senior colleagues give uanother task to be done today(how unlucky, why am I so junior?!), how do you deal with it?(explain to other colleague about the situation, try to ask toassign the less important task to other people, focus on theimportant one!)
9. Situation: A timeyou spent whole week checking urclient's docs, u felt really dulland repetitive. after u finishand prepared to leave the office on friday afternoon, ur bosscalled u to double check ur work (what a niceboss), which means spent another week to do. what would u do?(though I thought will leave the company in this case, but said iwill do it to make sure we deliver the highest quality of work toclients in kpmg)
Tips: talk slowly and take time, search wikijob/ student roomwebsite, and good luck!
kpmg london assessment centre 2012 tax (2012-01-26 01:11:30)[编辑][url=][删除][/url][url=]转载▼[/url]
刚接到hr电话，总共要有6个3分才能通过，结果我有5个“3”和2个“2”，以一分之差失之交臂。好像回到以前的中考，考了491分，以1分之差错过十一录取线还掏了3w银子才入学的。
尽管遗憾+失望，但还是趁现在写下总结。早晨到了canarywharf，果然是个金融中心，一大片西服革履的上班族冲上电梯的场面还是挺壮观的。
最后的feedback是 Drives and collaboration--2,Business Opportunity--2, Resilence--1?! 其余都是3（合格）.
下面就根据回忆写下昨天的经历：
The day starts at 9:30, about 10 of us. 2 non-british, includingme and another malay girl.
Task1： Written analysis
I am an analyst at AAA advisory and should makesome suggestions to an Energy company--IE regarding their businessstrength, weakness, and challenges. Plus, make properrecommendations.
About 10 pages of info and 4 sections. Oneabout UK government policy--shifting towards green energy. Oneabout the whole energy industry. One about IE's financialperformance. One about IE's customer survey. Iused swot and wrote about 511words. most ppl wrote about thatnumbers.
Task 2: client meeting
I forgot to ask how to work together on a daily basis. The actorwas not very into his role. My main task isto build up relationship and make him believethat AAA will improveour work in the future.
Task 3； manager meeting:
Mainly to feedback the client meeting and helpneeded and give suggestions on how to improveAAA's customer service. Also I did well by linkingClient's potential additionaldemand to AAA's relevant depts_For instance, client also want to know how to improve publicreputation and AAA has a deptcalled governance and complience.
Lunch: really not assessed.
Task 4: Etray
Just read through all the papers documents. Idid not notice that the videos call also has ascript on paper, coz I forgotsome details about the manager's requirements from the video. Iwould pay more attentation to this next time_Apart from this, other part are fairly simple andstaright forward. Just remember to click on submit after finihsingeach exercise. The guy next to me typed a lot butdid not manage to click on submitbefore finishing, which means hiswork was not saved
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I applied the london graduate tax positionfor 2013 intake and below is the Q&A. Very similarto last year's questions:
1. Why tax? (problem solving, dynamic industry, changinglegislation)
2. Other field looking for? (mentioned consulting)
3. Proudest achievement? (set up a club at uni),then a follow upquestion on what is the difficulties and how did ideal with it? (guess i did not answer using STARstrategy)
4. A company is doing well and 4 reasons? (standardcharted,strong position in India and Asia, focus on wholesalebanking rather than IB, steady growth, diversity of income)
5. follow up question on how to further growth given theslowdown in emerging economy in China? (provide better service)
6. A time manage multiple task?
7. A time meet client needs and why it is important to meetclients needs?
8. what differentiates KPMG from other big four ? (mentioned theawards kpmg got for training and community, the only big four withtax business school)
9. What are the factors affecting the UK business sectors apartfrom Eurocrsis? (mentioned banking scandle). follow upon how can kpmg help clients to solve the problem?(said design better regulaton)
10. A time solve conflict within a team?
11. A time work under pressure? (KPMG telephone interview)
12. What will you do in your first year?
Situational question 1:
You have a project which needs to be checked by 2 othercolleagues, but when you just finish the draft, the client came andasked to see the result, what will you do in this case? (say no ina diplomatic way)
Situational question 2；
you are a senior member in your department and when you aredoing a presentation in the client's office, a newly joined juniorcolleague openly questioned you method and suggested a moreefficient way of doing work, what will you do? how will your clientthink about it? (say thanks to the colleague and explain to clientsthat is the open environment in KPMG)
the interview lasts 45 min and my interviewer was the same guywho interviewed me for 2012 engry, which is quite awkward, coz irecongized his voice and position is exactly same.
kpmg 英国 AC (2012-08-16 17:21:29)[编辑][url=][删除][/url][url=]转载▼[/url]
昨天今年第二次参加kpmg的ac，早上8点就到了canarywharf。一共12人，除了我和1个中国女生还有一个波兰人，其余全是英国人。
下面用英文打：
You pretend to be an employee at AAA and make suggestion toIE.
Exercise 1: written analysis
You are given information about the overview of energy industry,IE financial information, IE customer services survey, IE CSRsurvey, and UK government (OFEM) new regulation.
The overview seems a bit daunting-- cautious investors, limitedresources of oil fuel. Alternative source of energy must be needed_IE has recently been taken over by Braizlia, some organizationalissues. IE’s profit keeps decreasing despite its increasingrevenue. Customer’s services survey showed lots of problemsassociated with IE. IE’s CSR is suffering from a loss of reputationbecause of some acid rain associated many years ago and not manypeople are aware of the scheme that IE supports to disabled people_UK government sets tougher regulation on Energy Company becauseOFEM thinks the price of energy bill is too high.
You are supposed to give recommendation to above problems IEfaces and make a summary of IE’s business review.
Exercise2: E-tray
Generally time pressured, one interesting question is tobrainstorm ideas about solution to a parking problems:
A client is a well known retail shop.
They are facing a problem that many shoppers have parkingproblems, the car park is always full.
You should give some suggestions on how to improve thesituation.
Exercise 3: Client meeting
Meeting with Ashley about to get more information from her andpitch your company.
Main issues: unpleasant past working relationship
Main solutions: how to convince her that your company is theright company for her and build a relationship.
Exercise 4: manager meeting
Meeting with Chris to debrief about the client meeting. Givesuggestions on how to improve customers service of AAA. Acompetency question: why is important to improve customer services,what is the main success in doing that? What support do you needfrom AAA.
My manager is a very funny British guy and he was very into therole play and made lots of jokes with me. He even calledexperienced employee “old dogs”.
That’s all the questions and the day is very enjoyable.
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误打误撞申了个德勤 GUP，上午参加了Group AC，趁着没忘，赶紧写下来。
之前有参加过英国曼城deloitte的interview，后来又进到了AC，可惜写作不够好，没拿到offer。所以，感觉deloitte是很亲切的，又爱又恨。总之，出发前就知道有个同学马斯路和我一组。
早晨，照例先压腿，太极，后来一看表，已经9：30，本打算10：00出发，想到找停车位不容易（自行车的），于是立马动身。亏了前面一个黑人兄弟挪走了barclay的租车，我才有车位停。没想到，碰到朱茜（北京那个pre-departure认识的。）不愧是我老乡，管barclay租的自行车叫“蓝色儿车”。 随后几位，全是lse的，清一色的娘子军（就连面试官都是俩女的）。废话少说，我们进入到面试屋后，拿到case，主要是一家cholocate公司，销售量下降，需要分析原因以及给出建议。
我们的结论有四大点：
1. marketing budget/method 有问题，marketing前2月花完了1年的钱，主要还是用在tvads上。建议：花更多钱在报纸，online ads上。
2_distribution channel，主要目前都在实物超市里销售，我建议增加online order。
3_internal conflict，销售和marketing互相指责。建议： meeting of twoheads
4_external market influence， 大环境不好，建议：根据市场分析自身优劣。
开始时，马斯路还说让我罩着。不过没过几分钟，发现几个女子都很猛，巾帼不让须眉，再不发言连我都挂了。马上想到几个很好的idea，可惜没有帮到我同学很多，本想多问问她的idea，一紧迫就忘了，下次还是要更多鼓励发言最少的同学。
那个hrjj太严肃了，我还是保持一贯幽默的作风，discussion期间大家还是挺欢乐的，不过我注意到hr表情显得很难以捉摸，估计hr坐久了人人都是pokerface。
希望接下来其他lse 战友们顺利闯关，现在该去准备presentation了
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果然，phone interview没准备还真悲剧了，快速总结下被问得：
1. why banking? (a: dynamic environment)
2. why ubs? (recent award, people)
3. greatest achievement recently (taichi club)
4. recent news you following? (facebook going public)
HSBC 中国 Banker Development Programme 电面 (2012-11-23 17:45:07)[编辑][url=][删除][/url][url=]转载▼[/url]
这三天连续接到上海万宝盛华的电话，都错过了。印象中好像没申请猎头公司，今天拨过去，发现原来hsbc把初面转到万宝盛华，结果大早上的对方直接让我毫无准备就电话面试。
以下几个问题被问道：
0. tell me about yourself?
1. why hsbc BDP programme?
2. what is your gratest strength/weakness?
3. willing to relocate in china?
4. your greatest achievment?
5. when can start?
总共10几分钟，还是英文面试。最后，我说人在英国不太方便接电话，能不能发邮件联系，对方说：“电话邮件都有可能”。
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由于时差，大早上4点半起来准面试。本来面试是在6点，可是我的生物钟就是那种，只要知道今天有事情不能贪睡，绝对提前醒。所以我上闹钟基本就是心理安慰，很少被闹钟吵醒过。
结果等了半天，没电话来，结果hr说我信号有问题，打过来没人接，所以以为我放弃了。后来意识到我人在英国，以为我没睡醒，决定再次打给我，这次信号给力，终于在推迟15分钟后接到电话。要不然精心准备的面试就这么吹了太气人了。
正题：
面试我的是个在日本工作的姐姐，听英语真是听不出什么口音，不只是哪里人，名叫ray
1. why fidelity,why fixed income?我提到参加香港的fair，和当时的员工聊得很high，hr姐姐忙问我是不是christine和你聊得？我真的不记得是谁了。前几天应届生上也有人提到香港的christine人很好，看来她是有口皆碑。
2. 讲了讲实习经历，最喜欢哪个，每天做什么，学到什么？
3. a time i came up with an idea and put it into action and whatdid i learn
4. how did i manage time for my studying given that I getinvolved in many social activities?
总体说，更像是聊天，因为hr姐姐知道我有时差，所以还挺敬佩我起大早来面试，整个面试30分钟整，气氛很友善，算是我telephone最享受的一个。
其他还有过Deloitte 英国的tax ac的经历，不过年代久远，大概只记得当时有个etray要考写作能力，我的写作比较弱，所以挂了。PWC由于我曾经有一次用了2个帐号申请，当时是为了省时间不想等他半年才能再次申请，所以有点耍花招了，结果被发现后ac被取消，用于不能再申请pwc uk。EY就从来没通过网申。
另外一个银行deutsche bank 在london的finance analyst position，问的问题多数关于个人能力，当然也问到我他们公司刚刚公布的财务报表里盈利情况，这个没答上，结果也挂了。最后一个英国的面试机会是叫office of fair trading，的政府部门，他们招聘很有趣，让你根据他们的题目写一篇论文，我当时写的是price discrimination.花了2天时间搞定后接到面试通知，可惜当时才大二，太嫩了，面试首秀搞的一团糟，被拒了。
总之，哎呀妈呀，写了这么多，希望对后来人有帮助。想在英国找工作的筒子们，多上上wikijob吧！
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