What do you expect from an intern?

Question

Wondering what specific skills/things you look for in interns? I’m aware being able to 3FS and DCF model and being relatively technically competent before the internship starts is expected but I’m curious what sort of attitudes/things are specifically looked for.

short it down · Accepted Answer

Few practical things:

Intern's job is to save time to analysts as analyst's job is to save time to the PM. Therefore be precise, go to the point when delivering reports/thoughts/else.

Ask questions. There is no dumb question, but questions that can be asked to Google should be asked to Google. You want to get mostly opinions and thoughts from analysts/PMs, not solely facts you can find by yourself.

Have opinions. That probably comes with your own personality.

luketr · Answer

1) Eager to learn but be socially caliberated enough to understand you're not gonna be involved in complex high level work on the first go.

A lot of time you will be asked to do simple task like update / find errors / etc. in old models. Pay attention and be dedicated to it, once the small tasks been executed properly, we will work your way up to let you be more involved in greater scope.

2) Have a note, and carry it, if you ask anything and be answered, jot it down.

TopBoy.- · Answer

I have done; it was somewhat opaque but maybe I’m expecting an unreasonably granular answer? I was generally told that you can’t really make the same mistake multiple times and need to pick things up quickly. This is outside of being technically literate before the internship even starts given modelling is a big aspect of it.

pitch quality was smth I was confused about- I was generally told having strong differentiation wasn’t expected from an intern - I take it this means I’m still supposed to think about it and try seek it though

Telemachus · Answer

Doing tasks correctly & timely.

It sounds easy but often it’s not. When given a task, make sure you 100% understand what is asked of you & that you know how to do it.

If you don’t ask questions when given assignments, ppl will think you know what to do & can do it correctly. Ask questions! Make sure you understand the assignment!

It goes without saying but numbers should be 100% correct. This sounds obvious but when there are pro-formas & adjustments & different versions of EBITDA. make sure what number you’re referring to.

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