Hi,
I'm currently a first year student in college and was wondering how much it would help having done an internship in my first year. I currently have the opportunity to do a 4 week internship in a medium sized venture capital company. Should I go for it and also would this help land bigger internships in the final years of college?
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Take the internship. Experience > No Experience, always.
In you opinion/experience, do first year internships help when trying to get better internships in following years or do they not matter as much? Thanks
In what is my admittedly limited experience, I can only confirm that (all else being equal) having previous internships in VC/PE/IB will certainly help you get future internships in those areas.
Is this is a really bad humblebrag?
If serious, freshman VC is a pretty sweet gig. All else being equal, it beats out most kids who don't even intern during freshman summer, and also the sea of first-year PWM interns (imho).
Though if you go to a top target and get good grades, you don't have to worry much about landing junior year summer positions. In that case please do yourself a favor and travel or have fun in some way. Worry about recruiting next summer.
Hey, thanks for you reply.
I go to Trinity College in Dublin and do engineering. My dilemma is that I go to college in a different country to where I live, so I only get time to spend at home in the summers. The internship however is in a different country to where I live. So I was wondering is its worth giving up about a month+ at home to do the internship.
So I'm not sure if doing this 1 month VC internship would help me get some, hopefully buldge bracket internships in following years?
If you are on a 4 year program: if your grades are good, you can afford to let this go for this summer, although the internship would definitely help.
If you are on a 3 year program (which I suspect): take the internship, because you won't have sophomore recruiting.
The reality is, however, that most candidates in the UK (and I suppose Ireland - although correct me if I'm wrong) don't have a first year internship. So it won't harm you if you don't do it, but it will make you stand out if you do.
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