The second thing that helps you excel in an investment interview is to have a compelling investment experience you can talk about. Most initial investment management interviews with investment professionals are short – sometimes only 25-35 minutes. In that limited time you have to demonstrate that you have learned something about the market.
The best way to do that is have an investment strategy you have developed and tried. That allows you to talk about what type of investor you are, what makes you different and why you think that difference will help you be successful. Are you basing your investing expertise on a deep knowledge of some industry or are you a top down investor who has invested in learning about macro trends?
An actual investing experience also allows you to talk about what worked and what you learned from those investments that didn’t work. With this experience, you can also demonstrate important knowledge of how the markets work, such as the relationship between liquidity and position sizing in your portfolio.
The real pricing based trading experience of Zolio allows you to do all these things. We have built the Zolio platform to create as realistic a trading experience as possible, so that you can test your strategy with no risk. Zolio gives you the tools to discuss this strategy and your experience with it in an interview.
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