How Would I Get Into a Big 500 Company?

By James Ball

Our lecture this week was all about how do you get that job or land that big GIG after you have finished studying.

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To explore this further, I gave myself a thought a little thought experiment with a few rules. 1 I’m not allowed to use Google or references of any kind and 2 is I have 3 hour to figure it out. Why? Because this is my sick and twisted version of Fun. Now Read on.  

How Would I Get Into a Big 500 Company?

The following is my answer to this question

Once there was this guy, let’s call him Joe. He wanted to get into a big 500 company and hit it big and get the high paying job that he “deserved”. So how did Joe go about it? He knew from doing his research that all of these companies relied on the stock market. Knowing this, Joe set out to compile 2 stock market lists. On the first week he sent 1 of his list to 400 of the companies and the other list to the other 400 companies; 800 different companies in total. That may sound like a lot of companies but I’m forgetting on key point here. Both lists were titled stock market predictions.

After the first week had passed he had a 50/50 chance of one of the stock market prediction lists being better than the other on the second week would only send his 2 updated prediction lists to the 400 companies who got his BETTER Stock Market Prediction list. So 200 companies would get list 1 and the other 200 companies would get list 2. So after the second week had passed, once again he had a 50/50 chance of one of his prediction list being accurate to the stock market.

At this this point, the companies with the good prediction list might start to think “hmm maybe he’s onto something” or “it’s just dumb luck” (which it is, but the companies don’t need to know that.)

So the third week comes around and Joe is going to do the same thing again; Divide the 200 company list of good stock market prediction in half, and give 100 Companies list an updated Prediction list 1 and the other 100 prediction list 2. Can you see what’s happening here yet? Joe is thinning the herd.

It’s the fourth week now and Joe again does the 50/50 split of updated stock market predictions to the 100 companies that get the good prediction, meaning 50 companies get list 1 the other 50 companies get list 2.

The fifth week comes and you do the same thing again and thin the herd, do a 50/50 split of the companies who got the good prediction. And give 25 companies list 1 and the other 25 list 2.

The sixth week comes and by this point the 25 goog stock market prediction list companies might be having an interest in Joe and his predictions. But it that time again . . . you guessed it, it’s time to thin the herd. 13 companies get list 1 and 12 companies get list 2.

The seventh week comes and for the sake of simplicity I say the 12 companies with list 2 got the good prediction.  Again Joe does the 50/50 split and thins the herd. 6 companies get list 1 and 6 Companies get list 2.

The eighth comes and you have 6 companies who have been given 7 correct Stock market Predictions for the past 7 weeks.  Joes still hasn’t heard back so you guessed it . . . He thinned the herd 3 companies get Prediction list 1 and 3 companies get Prediction list 2

SO week 9 has arrived, what now?

This is where Joe sends an email or makes a phone call to the 3 good prediction companies from last week and says something like this.

Hi Mr/Miss CEO of Big 500 Company

My name is Joe Blogs. For the past 8 weeks I have given you eight correct predictions for the stock market for free. If you could give me 20 mins of your time for a face to face then I would really appreciate it.

I hope to hear back from you soon.

Sincerely yours.

               

Joe Blogs.

To conclude this post I will say this. To get into any business, You have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone, fail and make mistakes and get bake up and do it again, be a bit ballzy and most importantly, learn to hustle.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I had writing it. Please leave you comments in the comments section below.

And as always, this is Ballzy247 signing out.

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