Advice for Incoming Intern @ SM HF?
Hey Everyone,
I'll be starting at a SM HF this summer and I want to know what advice you all may have for me in terms of what I can be doing now to better prepare myself and stand out (in a positive way). Would love to hear from analysts all the way to HF veterans in the space.
Thank you for your time!
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Congrats on the internship, great opportunity that is ultimately what you make of it. Worked at large SM last summer and had an amazing experience. Couple of things I would recommend:
- ask a lot of (intelligent) questions. Ppl are generally willing to talk if they’re not getting crushed so would encourage you to be curious, just never ask anything you could find online.
- try to be competent in modeling/your coverage before you start. Assuming you aren’t nepo you prob have some experience from clubs/prior internships, but try to prep as much as possible. My experience was ppl assume you know very little until you prove them wrong, then you incrementally gain responsibility. Double/triple check your work, small mistakes matter
-having a good mentor is extremely important, and will probably make or break your experience. Not a ton you can do here but try to coffee chat ppl in the firm or if you have a formal mentor try to build a good relationship
-try to read memos and get familiar with the firm’s portfolio beyond what you are working on (interns usually have one narrowly defined project for the summer.
Hope this helps and good luck!
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