{"id":1887,"date":"2019-08-13T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2019-11-05T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:56:22","slug":"winter-21-applies-his-liberal-arts-background-to-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2019\/08\/13\/winter-21-applies-his-liberal-arts-background-to-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter ’21 Applies His Liberal Arts Background To Fintech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Winter ’21 — <\/em>This past summer,\u00a0I have had the opportunity to test my liberal arts education in the world of sales. No, there is not a\u00a0sales\u00a0101\u00a0on the\u00a0Wabash\u00a0curriculum. My Rhetoric Major,\u00a0as well as a wide breadth of courses from Biology-101 to Accounting-202,\u00a0helped me adapt and become successful in my internship this summer. It is a true testament to the fact that Wabash gives you the essential formula to understand and learn new topics on the fly.<\/p>\n

Financial technology or fintech was not a subject that I had a deep understanding in un<\/p>\n

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til this summer. I went through the interview process and was hired as a Market Development Associate for\u00a0Adorant\u00a0Group\u00a0in\u00a0Chicago.\u00a0Adorant\u00a0Group is a fintech company that has developed a platform called\u00a0MyMoneyRoadmap. This platform was created to help financial\u00a0advisors\u00a0prospect, interact, manage, and plan for their clients on a whole new level. The platform makes it streamline and easy for a CFP to manage and navigate their books of business.<\/p>\n

One of the first tasks I had to do\u00a0was\u00a0take a crash course to learn the platform. This seemed like an endless task at first;\u00a0however, members of the team were able to get me up to speed and make the transition as easy as possible. After learning the essentials of the platform, I was able to practice cold calls and demo scripts with senior sales members of the team. It was important to focus on language selection, tone, and substance to create a successful phone call.<\/p>\n

The sales coaches were able to help me \u201cask important questions.\u201d By asking important questions, I was able to learn more and more about the pain that each advisor had. This allowed me to\u00a0learn about the needs of\u00a0their practice and how our software may be a good fit.\u00a0This was truly a once in a lifetime experience. I took coaching head on every day. Members of the\u00a0Adorant\u00a0team were more than a pleasure to work with. The challenges that I faced during my experience did not seem daunting because of the great team I had around me 24\/7. I am very grateful to receive this paid internship from the Small Business Internship Fund. I am looking forward to using the skills\u00a0I have learned this upcoming semester at Wabash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Winter ’21 — This past summer,\u00a0I have had the opportunity to test my liberal arts education in the world of sales. No, there is not a\u00a0sales\u00a0101\u00a0on the\u00a0Wabash\u00a0curriculum. My Rhetoric Major,\u00a0as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-summer-internships","category-small-business-internship-fund-sbif"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-13-at-2.13.51-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}