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Updated May 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Voice Broker at ICAP (London)
Posted May 18, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 4 weeks)
After the requisite numerical/analytical online tests, there was a phone interview, which lasted about 30-45min, where some of the basic situational questions were asked etc. Some motivation questions were asked as well, and I got the impression these were especially important.
After passing the telephone interview, I was called in for an assessment centre. There were about 8 of us (who all applied for different positions). Activities included a trading simulation, numerical test, group exercise (which was like solving a riddle), and interviews.
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Business Services at ICAP (London)
Posted Feb 15, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 months)
For the telephone interview you need to know A LOT about the company itself including their share price, companies they acquired, etc
The assessment centre consisted of numerical and verbal tests, group exercise with a presentation in the end and an interview with HR.
Panel interview is with the people from your division. Mine were very nice, talked to me about my experiences etc. Asked me about current news and how it might affect ICAP.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.
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Brokder at ICAP (London)
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I applied online and answered the competency questions. it was quite easy, trivial.then they gave me a phone interview.
they just asked some basic competency questions, which was not hard. I prepared quite a lot and found it helpful searching in the internet for some interview questions. for example they would ask my why icap, what was the difference between broking and investment banking.
get well prepare, it will be a good experience
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Post Risk at ICAP (London)
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 1 week)
First on line application, follow with phone interview. Question such as why iCap?
why post risk? Why u? Major competitor for Icap in post risk management
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Voice Broker at ICAP (London)
Posted Nov 23, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
First I had a 15 min long phone interview by someone from HR. The questions were mainly competency based. Some obvious questions like "what do you know about ICAP?" and their competitors. Why you want to work in inter dealer broking - make sure you know the difference between this and investment banking. Also she asked a very random question what a particular fraction was (keep a calculator by the phone). Be able to sell yourself.
Then I was invited to the assessment center which had a trading simulator which threw many people off. You have to be quick. Followed by the numerical test, before a group exercise and group interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Broker at ICAP (London)
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
Bearing in mind that this was for the internship not full graduate job, the interview was not too bad. After numerical tests, which were fairly difficult, I had an interview with a senior broker. He seemed like a nice guy and gave me some pretty standard strength based questions, as well as a couple of questions about who ICAP were and what the internship would entail.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Broking Summer Internship London at ICAP (London)
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 6 weeks)
Applied online. They invited for a first telephone interview 2 weeks after I had submitted my application. ON the day of the telephone interview I received an email saying that they were experiencing technical problems. The interview was canceled. They emailed me again asking me to re-schedule another telephone interview. I had to wait another 4 weeks to take the re-scheduled interview.
The HR women asked me a few questions. The questions were standard. See below. No feedback on what I was saying. She was typing on her keyboard. The interview lasted for 20 minutes.
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Give me 3 words to describe yourself?
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Risk Management at ICAP (London)
Posted Oct 12, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)
Invited to assessment centre after passing initial phone interview. During the assessment day asked to take two shl psychommetric tests, one numeracy and one logical reasoning. Then had a group exercise and finaly a 1:1 interview with some dumb blonde from HR who clearly didn't know anything about the financial markets.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Broker at ICAP (London)
Posted Sep 25, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
I applied online and spent the time to answer the two questions that came along with application thoroughly. I was then asked to make an appointment for a phone interview - I did. Around a month later I was contacted.
I did not prepare too much for the interview and generally speaking it was not so difficult except for a couple Q's. The HR rep asked me what I knew about ICAP (what ICAP does, who are the competitors, what exchange they're traded on, how I learned about ICAP). She asked me to tell her about an achievement that was not on my resume. She then asked how the regulatory environment will change ICAP's business (which was one of the questions in the application). Then what type of broker I would like to be (voice vs electronic) and why I am suitable for the role. I said I didn't have a preference (I don't believe this affected their decisions to take me/not take me). Then she asked whether structured products were brokered by voice or electronically (which i did not answer correctly) and a more technical question "what is 12% of 7?", she insisted i walk her through the mental calculation. She then asked me if I had any questions (you should probably have some questions (only good ones obviously) to portray genuine interest).
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Ship Research at ICAP (London)
Posted Aug 3, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 (took a day)
Was a half an hour panel interview, mix of competency and technical questions. Was ok though, the panel were very friendly and didn't grill me too much.
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