Goldman Sachs Institutional Sales Analyst Interview Help

So I have an interview with GS for a position called "Securities, Equities, Institutional Sales, Analyst" in San Francisco.

Here is the Job Summary & Responsibilities:

Summary: This San Francisco-based team covers institutional clients in equities across the West Coast.

Principal Responsibilities: Selling of Initial Public and Secondary Offerings to Institutional clients. Distribution of the Global Investment Research Product to institutional client Identifying new client opportunities; growing and maintaining client relationships. Drawing from various resources across the firm to deliver the best service to the client. Providing general support to the team.

Basic Qualifications Basic Qualifications: The successful candidate will be an ambitious and dynamic individual with a natural sales ability, possess excellent communication/interpersonal skills and have a proactive working style. Candidates will be high academic achievers with the capacity to learn quickly.

Preferred Qualifications Preferred Qualifications: EITHER 1+ year’s sales experience OR 1+ year’s of research product experience is ideally required. Ties to the west coast are essential

Does anyone have any advice on the particulars of this position, what is asked in an interview, and what is sought after?

Much appreciated,

Phil

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Thanks for wasting my time by making me delete all your threads.

Never do that again.

Post in one forum.

Honestly I'd be surprised if anyone replies seriously to this thread.

Reality hits you hard, bro...
 

I love Phil Collins.

"Major in economics; use your economics degree to get an analyst job on Wall Street; use your analyst job to get into Harvard or Stanford Business School; and worry about the rest of your life later"
 

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