{"id":8329,"date":"2010-11-11T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2023-04-27T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:30:59","slug":"traders-ask-how-do-you-get-hired-as-a-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/traders-ask-how-do-you-get-hired-as-a-trader","title":{"rendered":"Traders Ask: How Do You Get Hired as a Trader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Mike B. Great book I must say. Very inspiring. Thank you for the quick response. I must ask though since you are the\u00a0co-founder\u00a0of SMB what should I do in school (academics to increase my chances of employment at SMB? I know from reading your book that HR pretty much decides if they want to interview an applicant so\u00a0I have to stand out some way. Don&#8217;t forget my name though lol. I will of course\u00a0trade my personal account with money saved up working min wage and read books\/blogs to improve my knowledge and skills.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bella Responds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me share a story with you of a college student who you should emulate. Let&#8217;s call him the Next Franchise (the original Franchise is from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1289495799&amp;sr=1-1\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/em> in the chapter These Guys are Good). He has been trading for years in college. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/do-what-you-do\">trading records<\/a>. \u00a0He writes me an email at least twice a month searching for ideas on how to improve. He follows up with tangible examples of how he has improved. He has been to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/be-like-travis\">in-house seminars<\/a>. Met all the partners. We all know his name. He is still in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/traders-ask-do-i-have-to-go-to-the-right-school-to-become-a-great-trader\">college<\/a>. In fact the other day I made sure HR added him to our new software that tracks our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/ten-interview-tips-for-proprietary-trading\">June prospects<\/a>. How many readers are trying to get the attention of a hirer? I have a thousand daily tasks. Yet I went out of my way to make sure that this future trader was being tracked by us.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s flip this question on its head Seth Godinesque. Instead of asking me how you might get hired, ask what can you do so I have to hire you? As Godin implores in <em>Lynchpin<\/em> to become\u00a0indispensable. I cannot wait to start working with the next franchise. If somehow he ends up elsewhere I will consider that a huge loss to SMB.<\/p>\n<p>Traders trade. Traders read trading. Traders know other traders. Firms hire traders.<\/p>\n<p>You can be better tomorrow than you are today!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1382397128&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+good+trade\"><em>One Good Trade<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-PlayBook-Inside-Professional-Trader-ebook\/dp\/B00DW7PLLQ\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\"><em>The PlayBook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No relevant positions<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingworkshop.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smbwebinarsignup.jpg\" alt=\"tradingworkshop\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Mike B. Great book I must say. Very inspiring. Thank you for the quick response. I must ask though since you are the\u00a0co-founder\u00a0of SMB what should I do in school (academics to increase my chances of employment at SMB? I know from reading your book that HR pretty much decides if they want to interview an applicant so\u00a0I have &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/traders-ask-how-do-you-get-hired-as-a-trader\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,908],"tags":[4674,18,1193,653,1348,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","category-traders-ask","tag-one-good-trade","tag-smb-capital","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-author","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Traders Ask: How Do You Get Hired as a Trader? | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/traders-ask-how-do-you-get-hired-as-a-trader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Traders Ask: How Do You Get Hired as a Trader? | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello Mike B. 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