Question: What is the single, most valuable piece of experience I could get that would help me have a successful long-term career in the financial modeling industry?
Answer: The single, most valuable experience you could get is a job where you as the financial modeler, are focused on strategic projects, perhaps also privy to confidential information, in the formative years of a young company, where you get to interact directly with senior management and the CEO, and through your financial models, guide their thinking and overall corporate strategy, and become an important, indispensible part of the team that takes a fledgling company into a multi-million or billion dollar enterprise. If that happens, you will be part of the team that made it happen, even though you only started out as a financial modeler at the early stage of your career. This interaction would give you the opportunity to learn from the best, and if you play your cards well, the CEO or someone of influence will take you under his wing, and mentor you so you can have a highly successful career. This would be the best break you could get, but luck plays a part in such things happening.
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