One of the benefits to join our alumni network is the possibility to get tech and sales consulting gigs.
This is what I call the door openers.
So just by joining the alumni network, just by becoming part of the alumni network, you will be receiving
a the tech and sales consulting gig offers.
We, uh, we, we have uh, so people, companies, uh, individuals, uh, ask us for, uh, students
that can help them, you know, with tech and sales consulting gigs.
And we will share this, uh, offers with you in the alumni network.
I will share with you a personal story.
Many years ago.
When I first arrived to Silicon Valley, I didn't have.
A lot of tech experience.
I had business experience, I had a business degree and an MBA, but I didn't have formal tech education.
I was involved in tech companies before, but I didn't have a like a deep tech education.
So I learned advanced web development in public libraries there and practicing, practicing, practicing,
practicing.
And I the moment I got this initial knowledge about advanced web development, actually was programming,
in that in that time it was PHP programming and JavaScript and all that.
A and specialized CMS.
I started offering very convenient consulting gigs in exchange for good referrals.
That took me to my first job.
So I, I have been there.
I, I know that many of you want to make the move to the to the tech space.
Uh, you want to start your tech career and maybe many of you don't have a formal tech education.
So the consulting gigs are very good.
Uh, ways of a moving towards your first job in tech and in the alumni network, you are going to find
tech consulting gigs and also sales consulting gigs.
We are going to talk about them later, but I wanted to share my personal story because a as a new,
uh, arrived in Silicon Valley, this was a very good way for me to land in my first real job in tech.
I started working in a very big company, and I will tell you about that later in a in a next lesson.
But everything started for me working in small consulting gigs, and what I did was I charge very few
money to my customers, and what I only ask from them was please, if other person ask you about me,
uh, please, you know, say something good about me, share your experience with me.
Please take the time to to to to speak five minutes with this person or with this company to to tell
your your, your experience with me.
And this was super, super, uh, useful for me because I only work in I think it was three consulting
gigs before I had my first real job offer.
I will tell you about my first real job offer in tech later.
So what are the, uh, things that are important?
In my opinion, when you are starting to a to to to consider the possibility to work in consulting gig.
So I would, uh, share with you this, uh, advices.
First, it's very important to select your field.
So right now you are you are interested in generative AI.
This is the this is the moment to do that.
It's a great moment.
You have, uh, an impressive future.
So stay stay with us.
But in this moment, you are able to decide where you can, uh, start working in consulting gigs.
Because you could start in tech consulting gigs if you if you want, when you have, you know, enough
knowledge and enough practice with the things that we are going to teach you in this program.
But even before, when you complete the first part of the program and you are, uh, you become an expert
on artificial intelligence, what artificial intelligence can do for companies, how is going to, uh,
how artificial intelligence is going to impact, you know, jobs, companies, industries, society,
etc. with this knowledge, you can start working as a sales consultant as a side, you know, so you
you can talk with your company or with, uh, your friends or with your network about the possibilities
of introducing artificial intelligence in their company and generative artificial intelligence in their
company.
You still don't have the knowledge, but, you know, uh, who has the knowledge, right?
So, you know, companies that can provide this service and you can get a commission, a sales commission
for the projects that you recommend to this, to these companies.
Okay.
So this is the first advice I will give you.
Select your field A okay.
You are in generative AI but can you start.
Offering consulting, uh, consulting services in sales or in tech.
This is the first step.
Second step.
Start offering very convenient services, very convenient services.
And in my experience, this is one of the main obstacles most people find because they think is.
Is is bad to offer a to offer a very cheap consulting service.
Sometimes we are talking about a, you know, establish a professionals in in different fields.
So if you are a lawyer, if you are a doctor, if you are an accountant, etc., it will be like, uh,
you probably you, you will not feel comfortable offering a consulting gig service for a very low price.
It's like, oh no, I can't do that.
You know, it's below my position or whatever, but this is exactly what you need to do.
You need to start offering very convenient prices for your services in order to get the attention of
possible customers.
And this low price you are charging is a compensating the experience you are getting, the reputation
you are building, and this references that you can you can get from from this consulting uh, initial
consulting jobs.
So my second advice start offering very convenient prices, very convenient services.
Third, prove your value and get positive referrals.
This is very important.
So if you are uh eh, if you start working in tech consulting gigs, start building your portfolio with
the projects you are working in or even with, you know, uh, exercises or trials that you can, you
can show in your portfolio.
But the important thing now is to prove your value and to get positive referrals.
So people is going to hire you, uh, for different reasons.
And one of these reasons is going to be positive referral referrals of real people.
It's not just a written referral, it's a written referral and a phone number they can call in order
to have a conversation about their experience with you.
So very important.
And once you have that, then progress.
So you will see at the beginning stuff is hard.
It takes time, effort, uh, but it will pay.
It will pay, uh, so you will progress.
So this is the way I, I really don't believe in magic.
A magic steps or magic solutions.
I really believe in hard job and in serious job.
And this is what I have found.
It works for me.
So that's why I recommend it to other people.
I don't know.
Some other people can talk about magic solutions or whatever strange things.
I haven't found that, um.
Magic doesn't work.
You know, in real life.
In real life, it works.
You know, serious job, hard work, study, you know, uh, reputation, honesty, etc., etc..
So these are the things I recommend you.
So how can you start selling generative AI products or services?
This is super fast and easy for you because right now, once you finish the first part of this program,
you know what is possible.
So everywhere you go, after you finish the first part of this program, everywhere you go, you are
going to think, hey, here, they can apply this solution in this profession, they can do this in
this environment.
They can do that because there are so many possibilities for generative AI right now.
That is amazing.
The places where you can start selling these new things so you know what is possible.
You know who can make it possible.
Because when you are studying this program, you are being in touch with different companies that offer
this kind of services.
So we have a consulting firm, other companies have consulting services, tech consulting, a sales
consulting, training, consulting.
You have a lot of possibilities.
So you know what is possible and you know who can make it possible.
In our case, we work everywhere.
So we work in Europe, in United States, in in Asia, in Latin America.
So wherever you are, we can help you if you can be our partner.
And it will be the same with a lot of companies.
So to start selling generative AI is super fast and easy.
What I will tell you is find potential customers and earn a sales commission.
Your current company may be the first one.
Uh, if you if you want to play the role of what we call artificial intelligence ambassadors.
Okay, so these are the, the, the, the people that introduce artificial intelligence in their company.
And this is happening everywhere in every kind of companies, the newest one, the most modern ones,
and also the traditional, the traditional, uh, company.
So in my opinion, it is very easy and very fast to start working in sales consulting gigs.
What about tech consulting gigs?
And remember, you are going to receive offers from us.
You know, if anyone contact us and says, I need, you know, a student to help me with this, we will
share this information with you.
But you can also be proactive, you know, and you know, a start promoting yourself in your local ads,
you know, online ads or whatever, and let your network know that you can help them with this.
So it's something that you can also can start promoting.
What about tech tech consulting gigs.
So right now you know what is possible.
And when you finish the second part of this program, you will know how to build what is possible.
So you will you will be in a position to start building generative AI solutions.
A my recommendation for you will be answer to consulting gig offers.
Find potential customers or associate yourself with someone that can find them.
So some people is a.
Is reluctant to to promote themselves or is reluctant to go out there and look for customers or they
have difficult, you know, circumstances or whatever to to do that so they can join forces, partner
with other companies or organizations that have the customers and are looking for, uh, developers,
uh, to, to work in different opportunities.
So in my opinion, right now, the sky is the limit for, uh, the, the opportunities in the generative
AI space.
So in the alumni network you will find consulting gigs and you will also find if you need it, also
premium coaching services to help you with your consulting career.
So this is why I call the tech and sales consulting gigs the door openers, because they will open,
uh, the door of a real, uh, job offer for you, as stated for me.
In the next lesson, we are going to talk about how you can find job offers, uh, through the alumni
network.
We'll talk about that in the next lesson.