1 00:00:05,430 --> 00:00:15,540 One of the benefits to join our alumni network is the possibility to get tech and sales consulting gigs. 2 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,080 This is what I call the door openers. 3 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:27,540 So just by joining the alumni network, just by becoming part of the alumni network, you will be receiving 4 00:00:27,690 --> 00:00:30,870 a the tech and sales consulting gig offers. 5 00:00:30,870 --> 00:00:41,250 We, uh, we, we have uh, so people, companies, uh, individuals, uh, ask us for, uh, students 6 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:44,910 that can help them, you know, with tech and sales consulting gigs. 7 00:00:44,910 --> 00:00:50,760 And we will share this, uh, offers with you in the alumni network. 8 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,460 I will share with you a personal story. 9 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,280 Many years ago. 10 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,570 When I first arrived to Silicon Valley, I didn't have. 11 00:01:03,710 --> 00:01:05,209 A lot of tech experience. 12 00:01:05,209 --> 00:01:12,950 I had business experience, I had a business degree and an MBA, but I didn't have formal tech education. 13 00:01:12,950 --> 00:01:20,570 I was involved in tech companies before, but I didn't have a like a deep tech education. 14 00:01:20,570 --> 00:01:29,180 So I learned advanced web development in public libraries there and practicing, practicing, practicing, 15 00:01:29,180 --> 00:01:29,780 practicing. 16 00:01:29,780 --> 00:01:38,000 And I the moment I got this initial knowledge about advanced web development, actually was programming, 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,400 in that in that time it was PHP programming and JavaScript and all that. 18 00:01:44,090 --> 00:01:46,700 A and specialized CMS. 19 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:53,990 I started offering very convenient consulting gigs in exchange for good referrals. 20 00:01:53,990 --> 00:01:56,030 That took me to my first job. 21 00:01:56,030 --> 00:01:59,360 So I, I have been there. 22 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:06,440 I, I know that many of you want to make the move to the to the tech space. 23 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:13,370 Uh, you want to start your tech career and maybe many of you don't have a formal tech education. 24 00:02:13,370 --> 00:02:19,340 So the consulting gigs are very good. 25 00:02:19,550 --> 00:02:30,260 Uh, ways of a moving towards your first job in tech and in the alumni network, you are going to find 26 00:02:30,260 --> 00:02:34,370 tech consulting gigs and also sales consulting gigs. 27 00:02:34,370 --> 00:02:42,290 We are going to talk about them later, but I wanted to share my personal story because a as a new, 28 00:02:42,290 --> 00:02:50,060 uh, arrived in Silicon Valley, this was a very good way for me to land in my first real job in tech. 29 00:02:50,060 --> 00:02:57,440 I started working in a very big company, and I will tell you about that later in a in a next lesson. 30 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:06,110 But everything started for me working in small consulting gigs, and what I did was I charge very few 31 00:03:06,110 --> 00:03:15,860 money to my customers, and what I only ask from them was please, if other person ask you about me, 32 00:03:16,010 --> 00:03:21,890 uh, please, you know, say something good about me, share your experience with me. 33 00:03:21,890 --> 00:03:29,600 Please take the time to to to to speak five minutes with this person or with this company to to tell 34 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,610 your your, your experience with me. 35 00:03:31,610 --> 00:03:40,820 And this was super, super, uh, useful for me because I only work in I think it was three consulting 36 00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:44,960 gigs before I had my first real job offer. 37 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,400 I will tell you about my first real job offer in tech later. 38 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,100 So what are the, uh, things that are important? 39 00:03:55,100 --> 00:04:04,700 In my opinion, when you are starting to a to to to consider the possibility to work in consulting gig. 40 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:09,020 So I would, uh, share with you this, uh, advices. 41 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:13,520 First, it's very important to select your field. 42 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,810 So right now you are you are interested in generative AI. 43 00:04:18,170 --> 00:04:20,329 This is the this is the moment to do that. 44 00:04:20,329 --> 00:04:21,620 It's a great moment. 45 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:25,070 You have, uh, an impressive future. 46 00:04:25,070 --> 00:04:27,080 So stay stay with us. 47 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:38,270 But in this moment, you are able to decide where you can, uh, start working in consulting gigs. 48 00:04:38,270 --> 00:04:46,220 Because you could start in tech consulting gigs if you if you want, when you have, you know, enough 49 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:51,650 knowledge and enough practice with the things that we are going to teach you in this program. 50 00:04:51,650 --> 00:04:59,180 But even before, when you complete the first part of the program and you are, uh, you become an expert 51 00:04:59,180 --> 00:05:05,450 on artificial intelligence, what artificial intelligence can do for companies, how is going to, uh, 52 00:05:05,450 --> 00:05:11,840 how artificial intelligence is going to impact, you know, jobs, companies, industries, society, 53 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:21,290 etc. with this knowledge, you can start working as a sales consultant as a side, you know, so you 54 00:05:21,290 --> 00:05:29,240 you can talk with your company or with, uh, your friends or with your network about the possibilities 55 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:34,700 of introducing artificial intelligence in their company and generative artificial intelligence in their 56 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:35,420 company. 57 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:41,150 You still don't have the knowledge, but, you know, uh, who has the knowledge, right? 58 00:05:41,150 --> 00:05:48,380 So, you know, companies that can provide this service and you can get a commission, a sales commission 59 00:05:48,380 --> 00:05:52,070 for the projects that you recommend to this, to these companies. 60 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:52,640 Okay. 61 00:05:52,970 --> 00:05:56,060 So this is the first advice I will give you. 62 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:59,240 Select your field A okay. 63 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,110 You are in generative AI but can you start. 64 00:06:03,420 --> 00:06:08,070 Offering consulting, uh, consulting services in sales or in tech. 65 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:09,210 This is the first step. 66 00:06:09,210 --> 00:06:10,320 Second step. 67 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:16,590 Start offering very convenient services, very convenient services. 68 00:06:16,950 --> 00:06:26,130 And in my experience, this is one of the main obstacles most people find because they think is. 69 00:06:27,050 --> 00:06:34,040 Is is bad to offer a to offer a very cheap consulting service. 70 00:06:34,370 --> 00:06:41,210 Sometimes we are talking about a, you know, establish a professionals in in different fields. 71 00:06:41,210 --> 00:06:48,290 So if you are a lawyer, if you are a doctor, if you are an accountant, etc., it will be like, uh, 72 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:58,310 you probably you, you will not feel comfortable offering a consulting gig service for a very low price. 73 00:06:58,310 --> 00:07:00,200 It's like, oh no, I can't do that. 74 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:06,140 You know, it's below my position or whatever, but this is exactly what you need to do. 75 00:07:06,650 --> 00:07:13,520 You need to start offering very convenient prices for your services in order to get the attention of 76 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:14,960 possible customers. 77 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:22,430 And this low price you are charging is a compensating the experience you are getting, the reputation 78 00:07:22,430 --> 00:07:30,170 you are building, and this references that you can you can get from from this consulting uh, initial 79 00:07:30,170 --> 00:07:31,370 consulting jobs. 80 00:07:31,370 --> 00:07:39,230 So my second advice start offering very convenient prices, very convenient services. 81 00:07:39,230 --> 00:07:44,270 Third, prove your value and get positive referrals. 82 00:07:44,270 --> 00:07:45,680 This is very important. 83 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:57,590 So if you are uh eh, if you start working in tech consulting gigs, start building your portfolio with 84 00:07:57,590 --> 00:08:03,140 the projects you are working in or even with, you know, uh, exercises or trials that you can, you 85 00:08:03,140 --> 00:08:05,150 can show in your portfolio. 86 00:08:05,150 --> 00:08:11,870 But the important thing now is to prove your value and to get positive referrals. 87 00:08:11,870 --> 00:08:18,110 So people is going to hire you, uh, for different reasons. 88 00:08:18,110 --> 00:08:23,690 And one of these reasons is going to be positive referral referrals of real people. 89 00:08:23,690 --> 00:08:30,710 It's not just a written referral, it's a written referral and a phone number they can call in order 90 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:33,500 to have a conversation about their experience with you. 91 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:35,059 So very important. 92 00:08:35,059 --> 00:08:38,179 And once you have that, then progress. 93 00:08:38,179 --> 00:08:43,549 So you will see at the beginning stuff is hard. 94 00:08:43,549 --> 00:08:47,570 It takes time, effort, uh, but it will pay. 95 00:08:47,570 --> 00:08:51,080 It will pay, uh, so you will progress. 96 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:56,240 So this is the way I, I really don't believe in magic. 97 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,310 A magic steps or magic solutions. 98 00:09:01,310 --> 00:09:04,490 I really believe in hard job and in serious job. 99 00:09:04,490 --> 00:09:06,740 And this is what I have found. 100 00:09:06,740 --> 00:09:08,390 It works for me. 101 00:09:08,390 --> 00:09:11,720 So that's why I recommend it to other people. 102 00:09:11,930 --> 00:09:12,530 I don't know. 103 00:09:12,530 --> 00:09:19,520 Some other people can talk about magic solutions or whatever strange things. 104 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,000 I haven't found that, um. 105 00:09:23,930 --> 00:09:25,910 Magic doesn't work. 106 00:09:25,910 --> 00:09:27,020 You know, in real life. 107 00:09:27,020 --> 00:09:28,640 In real life, it works. 108 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:36,860 You know, serious job, hard work, study, you know, uh, reputation, honesty, etc., etc.. 109 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:39,740 So these are the things I recommend you. 110 00:09:40,970 --> 00:09:47,420 So how can you start selling generative AI products or services? 111 00:09:47,450 --> 00:09:55,490 This is super fast and easy for you because right now, once you finish the first part of this program, 112 00:09:55,490 --> 00:09:57,530 you know what is possible. 113 00:09:57,530 --> 00:10:04,640 So everywhere you go, after you finish the first part of this program, everywhere you go, you are 114 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:10,790 going to think, hey, here, they can apply this solution in this profession, they can do this in 115 00:10:10,790 --> 00:10:11,810 this environment. 116 00:10:11,810 --> 00:10:17,600 They can do that because there are so many possibilities for generative AI right now. 117 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:18,980 That is amazing. 118 00:10:18,980 --> 00:10:25,010 The places where you can start selling these new things so you know what is possible. 119 00:10:25,010 --> 00:10:27,500 You know who can make it possible. 120 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:34,490 Because when you are studying this program, you are being in touch with different companies that offer 121 00:10:34,490 --> 00:10:35,690 this kind of services. 122 00:10:35,690 --> 00:10:42,740 So we have a consulting firm, other companies have consulting services, tech consulting, a sales 123 00:10:42,740 --> 00:10:44,870 consulting, training, consulting. 124 00:10:44,870 --> 00:10:46,280 You have a lot of possibilities. 125 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,020 So you know what is possible and you know who can make it possible. 126 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:53,450 In our case, we work everywhere. 127 00:10:53,450 --> 00:10:58,130 So we work in Europe, in United States, in in Asia, in Latin America. 128 00:10:58,130 --> 00:11:02,690 So wherever you are, we can help you if you can be our partner. 129 00:11:02,690 --> 00:11:04,910 And it will be the same with a lot of companies. 130 00:11:04,910 --> 00:11:09,290 So to start selling generative AI is super fast and easy. 131 00:11:09,890 --> 00:11:15,950 What I will tell you is find potential customers and earn a sales commission. 132 00:11:15,950 --> 00:11:18,680 Your current company may be the first one. 133 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:24,800 Uh, if you if you want to play the role of what we call artificial intelligence ambassadors. 134 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:30,740 Okay, so these are the, the, the, the people that introduce artificial intelligence in their company. 135 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:37,070 And this is happening everywhere in every kind of companies, the newest one, the most modern ones, 136 00:11:37,070 --> 00:11:40,730 and also the traditional, the traditional, uh, company. 137 00:11:40,730 --> 00:11:49,370 So in my opinion, it is very easy and very fast to start working in sales consulting gigs. 138 00:11:50,650 --> 00:11:53,230 What about tech consulting gigs? 139 00:11:53,230 --> 00:11:57,280 And remember, you are going to receive offers from us. 140 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:04,090 You know, if anyone contact us and says, I need, you know, a student to help me with this, we will 141 00:12:04,090 --> 00:12:05,590 share this information with you. 142 00:12:05,590 --> 00:12:14,260 But you can also be proactive, you know, and you know, a start promoting yourself in your local ads, 143 00:12:14,260 --> 00:12:19,960 you know, online ads or whatever, and let your network know that you can help them with this. 144 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,740 So it's something that you can also can start promoting. 145 00:12:23,740 --> 00:12:26,590 What about tech tech consulting gigs. 146 00:12:26,590 --> 00:12:30,250 So right now you know what is possible. 147 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:37,900 And when you finish the second part of this program, you will know how to build what is possible. 148 00:12:38,110 --> 00:12:45,250 So you will you will be in a position to start building generative AI solutions. 149 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:51,100 A my recommendation for you will be answer to consulting gig offers. 150 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:56,350 Find potential customers or associate yourself with someone that can find them. 151 00:12:56,350 --> 00:12:59,020 So some people is a. 152 00:12:59,970 --> 00:13:06,990 Is reluctant to to promote themselves or is reluctant to go out there and look for customers or they 153 00:13:06,990 --> 00:13:14,280 have difficult, you know, circumstances or whatever to to do that so they can join forces, partner 154 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:22,110 with other companies or organizations that have the customers and are looking for, uh, developers, 155 00:13:22,110 --> 00:13:24,540 uh, to, to work in different opportunities. 156 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:33,090 So in my opinion, right now, the sky is the limit for, uh, the, the opportunities in the generative 157 00:13:33,090 --> 00:13:34,470 AI space. 158 00:13:35,250 --> 00:13:43,350 So in the alumni network you will find consulting gigs and you will also find if you need it, also 159 00:13:43,350 --> 00:13:48,120 premium coaching services to help you with your consulting career. 160 00:13:50,070 --> 00:13:58,710 So this is why I call the tech and sales consulting gigs the door openers, because they will open, 161 00:13:58,740 --> 00:14:04,770 uh, the door of a real, uh, job offer for you, as stated for me. 162 00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:12,750 In the next lesson, we are going to talk about how you can find job offers, uh, through the alumni 163 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:13,980 network. 164 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:16,440 We'll talk about that in the next lesson.