Question for freshmen/sophomores getting internships

What kind of things are you putting on your resume as past working experience?

Do most of you have great work experience in finance/business at that stage?

I'm a freshmen at a non-target transferring to a target next year, but my past work experience is weak as hell and I'm trying to figure out how I'll be able to nail a sophomore summer internship when the time comes.

Thanks

 
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Barry Allen:
I'm a freshmen at a non-target transferring to a target next year, but my past work experience is weak as hell

I'm a freshmen at a non-target transferring to a target next year

I'm a freshmen

You're a freshman. Well, soon to be a sophomore at a target school. No one expects your work experience to be impressive.

Can you be more specific as to what kind of internship you want. A F500 company is going to recruit interns differently from a boutique or MM bank or hedgefund.

And no, most people haven't had high school internships the investment world but good job thinking about your future career at this point though. +1

 

An internship at boutique, bb, or hedge fund.

Really I just want something finance/banking related to be able to legitimately say I know this, this and that.

My current work experience is hardly finance related, but I participated in a virtual company apart of this program here; http://schools.nyc.gov/ve/nyceve/index.htm and I learned a bit about accounting and creating a business plan.

My other job was as a math/science tutor for high school kids.

Will this along with whatever I'll be doing this summer (probably teacher's assistant) be enough to put me in contention for a internship next summer at a boutique/bb/hf?

 

I'm a sophomore in the fall, like you. I have two summer internships, one was a rotation in an IB amongst its various departments for 5 weeks and the other, starting on sunday (Middle east week starts Sundays!), is a month in the investment banking division of another IB.

I hope that will get me into some interview's for the next SA recruiting season - does anyone know if being in the middle east puts me at any disadvantage?

 
CNB90:
I'm a sophomore in the fall, like you. I have two summer internships, one was a rotation in an IB amongst its various departments for 5 weeks and the other, starting on sunday (Middle east week starts Sundays!), is a month in the investment banking division of another IB.

I hope that will get me into some interview's for the next SA recruiting season - does anyone know if being in the middle east puts me at any disadvantage?

I'm guessing your family hooked you up with this or something?

 
Barry Allen:
CNB90:
I'm a sophomore in the fall, like you. I have two summer internships, one was a rotation in an IB amongst its various departments for 5 weeks and the other, starting on sunday (Middle east week starts Sundays!), is a month in the investment banking division of another IB.

I hope that will get me into some interview's for the next SA recruiting season - does anyone know if being in the middle east puts me at any disadvantage?

I'm guessing your family hooked you up with this or something?

Obviously. It's not like I don't deserve it though, I have a solid GPA and am pretty focused generally.

 

I am a rising junior, so my experiences might be relevant.

Freshman summer I took classes.

From September through February of sophomore year I was an unpaid finance intern at a local homeless shelter. I applied through a community service club, was the only person who applied and was told at the beginning of my interview I got the job.

For my summer internship I sent my resume out everywhere. Any bank/asset management place I had ever heard of, OCR, craigslist, monster, this website, efinancialcareer, theladders, etc. I even did a google maps search of any bank/AM place in the chicagoland area to find more places to apply to. I also applied to every insurance firm I knew of (insurance firms act as asset managers, investing the monthly premiums). I got an offer for an unpaid, small PE internship through craigslist after one phone interview. In the middle of April I interviewed with an insurance company, got the job (with very relevant work (modeling and road shows)), and am having a great time working in a friedly atmosphere with 40hrs/week (and good pay!).

 
repnation:
I didn't have a finance internship and I got an IB rotational program at a bulge bracket as a sophomore. I just busted ass networking.

I'm a rising soph and I would be really interested to hear about how you went about networking. I go to a target and bb's and the like host events but there are just swarms of kids at these things and the ratios of bankers to students is pretty ridiculous. Needless to say, it's pretty tough to do some solid networking.

 
ElliotWaveSurfer:
repnation:
I didn't have a finance internship and I got an IB rotational program at a bulge bracket as a sophomore. I just busted ass networking.

I'm a rising soph and I would be really interested to hear about how you went about networking. I go to a target and bb's and the like host events but there are just swarms of kids at these things and the ratios of bankers to students is pretty ridiculous. Needless to say, it's pretty tough to do some solid networking.

Likewise. What did you go about doing exactly? Would it be too forward/annoying to email alums from your school or other groups you're part of (i.e. club, sports teams, fraternity, etc) asking questions about the industry or even for a job?

 

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