Goldenberg

Hi all,

I ve got an interview with Godenberg coming soon so any tips or any info about the interview process would be appreciated!!

Thanks

In these days of fierce competition for jobs, you have to think of something to single you out as different.
You ought to think of some idea that will set you apart from the rest. Why not consider something that will dazzle them and capture their attention and interest immediately ? I am sure you can think of something.

Hi Socrates,

That was a quick reply; I am not worried about the competency part of the interview. I know that each candidate has to differentiate himself among others. Socrates after 25,000 interviews I had this year , offers-rejections, I suppose i can manage this part. Its the technical part that worries me. For eg. if the start asking about the mechanics of option markets or futures markets wouldnt be nice to know that in advance? Thats why I need someone who has been there. Listen to this. I had a mathematical test once in one of the prop firms right. It turned out bad. Another candidate asked me about the test. I gave him all the questions in the exact format and any info about the interview. (memorized all). So bottom line - u never know...

Thanks Sokrati

I now understand more clearly.
Be mindful that in many of these interviews the interviewer is not interested in the interviewee's personal opinion. The interviewer is likely to be interested to see whether the interviewee is likely to fit into the interviewer's own or the corporate frame of reference, which is something very different.You have to be necessarily artful to suss what it it that the interviewer would be delighted to hear and would engage his specific interest. Part of the trick is to pretend to be interviewed but in reality in parallel to be interviewing the interviewer, to get him to talk, to drop his guard, so that you have a better frame of reference as to what is required and what is being sought from you. Try being a good listenter instead of a good talker. You can learn much in this way without the interviewer noticing, to your advantage. This is quite apart from doing your research about the perimeter of knowledge of the topic you are going to be interviewed about.

wow, respect man. You have well chosen that nickname. I ll do my best. I ve spent all my life as a skiing athlete so I believe I ll find an absorbing topic connected directly to the trading profession.

Thanks Sokrati

Yes, you could weave participating in a strenous and competitve and (dangerous ?) sport into the dialogue, "implying" or "suggesting" how it is that an athlete drives himself to do better all the time and how it is that an athlete has to be self motivated and to find extra energy from somewhere to carry on and break records, and how it is that an athlete is able to face physical and mental challenges that would daunt other people and to have lightning responses to situations and so on, so as to implant the idea in the frame of reference of the interviewer that an athlete is accustomed to challenges and risk and pushing it in a real and practical way, whereas spectators, can only observe but not be like this. Try it. This could be a key to triggering in the interviewer's response an affinity, especially if the interviewer participates in some sport whether it is tennis or rowing or something else.