 My name is Lawrence Hassellbank. I did the master international management at the Tilbury University. So I work at PWC as a deals trainee and I'm currently in the financial due diligence department where we help our clients with their investments. So we specifically look at our networking capital positions, debt positions, also the sustainable level of earning capacity, find out what's really driving a company's business, how they're making their money, what is the real debt position and what's the normalised level of working capital. It's a very dynamic environment. All of a sudden you can be very busy and make a lot of hours on a certain deal. The deals vary in complexity. For instance you can have deals with very large companies where you have to analyse all different items of a company that has 2 billion in revenues or maybe more. Or sometimes you're working on a company that has 8 million in revenues and it's less complex but you can go further into debt and get to know a company a lot better. No, I don't think I'm the one that closes million dollar deals. Our clients do that, but we help them in closing million dollar deals. So as a deals trainee you'll rotate through different departments. So as I said before, I'm now in the financial due diligence department, but I'll also be rotating to the valuations, corporate finance and delivering deal value departments. Yeah, so generally when you come in about 8 o'clock or 8.30 you discuss with your manager or with your director what are the most important tasks for the day. And then you usually do some analysis or do some reading on a company or a project. And yeah, you perform your analysis and discuss with your manager or director whether it's heading in the right direction. We also do quite a lot is discuss with target management whether when we have any questions regarding certain items. We also talk to clients a lot to make sure that they're in the loop and whether they like the progress that is going on in the project. Favorite part of the job is when you finish an analysis and adopt a few or a conclusion and you see that your managers or directors agree with you and these few will also be communicated with the client. That is some validation for the work that you did. What also happens quite a lot is that we have some social activities. I've been to Vienna and London to compete with football teams from all over the world. Also from PWC, so there are quite a lot of activities that you can do besides working. Okay, so the deal I've worked on most recently was a company that was being a Dutch company that's being sold to an English party. And they would like to know how the Dutch market looked and how the company realized their growth. And it was a nice company to work on because they have been through a lot of growth and a lot of growth usually has a high selling price involved with it. But it's nice to see that our analysis helped determine that the growth was not very sustainable. So our client has some tools in the negotiation which can help them reduce the price or have some other guarantees involved in it. What was very valuable to me as a student was getting to know people from different backgrounds with different interests but still being able to connect with them. And I think going through further in your career it's very important that you take on or take this personality or characteristic with you. I think one very important skill is having a critical view on things that are presented to you. So even if it's an audited annual account of a company you still look at it with enough scrutiny to determine is this really what it represents and should I do some further analysis or look further into it to find out what I'm looking for. So it's not accepting what's presented to you but rather making your own efforts to see whether it's correct. The funny thing is that I found this job or this opening on Facebook and I saw an advertisement for the deals traineeship and they had a nice video telling about the different departments you'll be working in and the big deals you'll be working on and that really attracted me so I applied and got through the motions so you had a first conversation with HR and later on you talked to a partner and do a business course where you actually compete with other students for the position and it was really, yeah, it was a nice process. I don't know how many people apply to it. I guess it'll be quite a few but I think just being myself helped me. I like talking to people having, yeah, not a very strict view like this should be this way or I think it should go that way but more open to other people's views and I think that really helps especially regarding the amount of teamwork we do. I did quite some internships. It helps you gain a lot of practical experience but it also helps you appreciate what's valued in a business environment and for instance, yeah, the way you approach people or talk to clients I think I'd had some experience in that before actually starting my first job. I think things that would really help you increase chances on the job market are like being really assertive, take your destination into your own hands so do a lot of job interviews, apply, have a lot of applications and it will also get you feedback on how you can proceed in your next applications. What's very interesting for me is that I was applying for certain companies who had the same recruitment office so you contact the recruitment office and ask them what they're looking for so it's being really assertive and also not to be afraid to put in the amount of work that it takes because you never know where an opportunity arises you can only increase the chance of meeting that opportunity and that's by meeting new people.