PRIVATE & Entrepreneurship Alain Desmier Commercial Director, Enternships.com

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL 28 years old Graduated in 2005; President of Exeter Student Union and Editor of Student Newspaper Corporate job to silicon valley start-up / entrepreneur 2 nd fastest growing digital company in Europe Enternships.com Who am I?

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL What do you want to be? Entrepreneur? “Intrapreneur”? Employee None of the above?

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Why Entrepreneurship? SMEs Comprise 99%+ of total # of businesses in UK economy High levels of graduate / youth unemployment Less roles available in ‘traditional’ graduate industries / blue-chip corporations

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Why Now?

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Advantages? Breadth of experience & flexibility Involvement & early responsibility Control over career progression & speed of progression Identity; recognition & fast turn-around Camaraderie

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Disadvantages? Underemployment: jobs may initially have little or no relevance to qualifications Unstructured training Challenge: being thrown in at the deep end and forced to learn quickly can be daunting Unstructured career route Salary

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Inspirational startups

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL How to get started?

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL What is Enternships? Internships for self-starters All year round Remote “enternships” MBA Projects Co-Founders Full-time roles University Microsites

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Who’s hiring

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Questions?

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Get in Thank You!