I am an overseas student studying in a university in the UK. I'm not very familiar of what kind of working experience that you should include in your CV. I'm planning to apply for an internship in the UK next summer. I'm probably applying for a finance-related ones, such as capital markets. This summer, I worked for my parents who are doing some private forex trading activities as a personal assistant as I couldn't really get a job out there in my country. I learnt quite a lot of stuff and I'm thinking of whether to include this as a working experience in my CV. A friend of mine said that I shouldn't, since I wasn't working for other parties. Do you think I should include this as I didn't have any other working experience?
The other problem I'm worried about is since I was working privately for my parents and that's their own trading instead of companies, I might not be able to provide a reference.
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Yes, include it. You need to be specific about what skills you gained and give examples of each, eg communication, problem-solving, numerical. You can do this in a short paragraph or a bulleted list.

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