The Secret of Getting Work Experience (Exposed!) 

Everyone and their cat knows that have work experience and more importantly related work experience will play a huge role in the success of your recruitment. But nearly every other day we get an email asking us how they should go about landing their first work experience role given that they don’t already have any experience.

We understand it can sometimes feel like a catch 22 situation where you can only gt work experience if you already have work experience. Well this STOPS here and now!

In my course of interviewing many candidates I have always found something surprising, there are some candidates who simply have too much experience and some non at all. I began to ask the candidates who had multiple work experience gigs on their resume how they managed to land those roles, and their answer did surprise me. What shocked me the most was how easy it was, they did not struggle one bit, one candidate had 11 different work experience in just one year

In this article I will show you exactly how to replicate their success. .  

Getting relevant experience

Again, for those who already have relevant work experience in investment banking, corporate development, private equity, valuation and anything highly related to the skills required for investment banking, skip this step. 

For those who need work experience immediately then you will need to implement our emergency work experience program. This is an ultra-easy way to get valuable work experience fast, easily and anywhere. This method is quick, simple and only requires 3 months of sacrifice for you to be in the running to get the job you have always wanted.

How does it work? simply put you are going to target small start up companies which have recently been VC funded. Why? because they are desperate to get people through the door to help grow the operations. Recently funded start-ups have 101 things to get done and often they are too busy to even start looking for people or advertise.

You are going to contact them and offer to volunteer your services for FREE so long as they can give you real experience and responsibilities and training. The reason why you are going to volunteer is because right now you have zero experience and zero skills to offer. This is simply a means to an end. After you complete this voluntary role you are going to use this experience to leverage either a paid internship or a paid full time role.

There are thousands of start ups and many get funded, the trick is to find the right one and some candidates have even gotten lucky and found start-ups that offer to cover their travel expense as well as give them change for lunch.

Apply and adapt the following steps to wherever you live.

Step 1 : Google “Venture capital / investment banks in [your location e.g. London]” 

Step 2: Make a list of all venture capital firms and their investment in recent start ups

Step 3: call each firm and tell them you would like to volunteer for them to get experience

Why this works? start-ups who have just received funded by venture capital firms now have one big problem they need more people because they are rapidly expanding their operations and since hey are still small and start ups they are willing to take anyone.

Side note, call at least 20 companies and don’t give up, you can use our word-for-word transcript if you need help. Also, try to select financially related companies. It will be very easy for you to get multiple interviews and during your interviews you will have to clearly state that you want real responsibilities and willing to stay on for 3 months.