Just thought I would start a thread to compile a list of finance-related internships (PWM, IB, PE, HF) for first years in college. I understand that these opportunities are slim and elusive.. hence the thread.
Harvey & Co - Newport Beach, CA Merrill Lynch PWM - almost any major city
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Can confirm on Harvey & Co. It's a merchant bank but pretty decent experience for freshman and directly relatable.
Guess this is why I can't find any internships
probably because they don't come to you and you actually have to cold email yourself. do your own legwork.
this would be a lot more viable if you narrowed it down to a specific region
Trying to make it as comprehensive as possible --- but I'm personally located in the greater Atlanta area.
As a first year what are the chances of finding an internship now? Is it too late? Or has the process not started yet? Especially if you cold email.
Banks are done recruitment, try buy side and boutique shops
I live in a fairly large city and when speaking with Merrill Lynch pwm I was told that the only offices that actually take interns are the ones located in NYC and Chicago? Any thoughts on this? Would just getting a pwm gig at a no-name family type place be fine?
Depending on your city some BBs take unpaid interns
That brings up another question.. Does the name brand or responsibility/experience carry more weight in freshman internships?
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IB/PE freshman internships? (Originally Posted: 11/08/2015)
I am a freshman at a prestigious business school, but at a large state school which I do not believe to necessarily be a target. Are there any freshman internships for private equity or investment banking, that are not diversity programs, that are open?
Honestly, no there aren't. Find a boutique and start emailing.
"prestigious"
No, there's nothing openly available unless you have family connections. You do have a shot at getting a PWM or boutique IB internship if your work hard on cold emailing. In any case, it isn't necessary for you to have a financial internship this summer.
Curious how you have "prestigious business school" and " I do not believe to necessarily be a target." in the same sentence? lol. Anyways just reach out to friends or family first who are in the industry. You might be able to get a small PE shop or boutique IBD internship. I think that's your best bet along with PWM. No clue whether or not you'd be paid though. Maybe for college credit?
What I meant was that the business school is prestigious, but the overall school is nothing that the Investment banks would ever look at.
Internship as a "freshman"? (Originally Posted: 09/03/2016)
After transferring to a state school this past spring (and switching majors entirely) I am a freshman again. I am looking for an internship this summer that can kickstart my transition into investment banking/private equity/wealth management.
However, many of the internship applications I come across specify they want a current third year (junior). Should I still go ahead and apply? Any suggestions on where I should be looking? I know I'm not far along enough yet to be applying to some of the more well-known names, but with my resume I think I could compete at a certain level.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Don't apply through the website if it says it is for a different grade level. Try to find people at the company you want to work at and reach out to them. Keep networking and try to find a place where you can informally apply.
Couple questions on interning as a freshman (Originally Posted: 04/21/2010)
I had a couple questions about internships between freshman and sophomore year. It seems like a lot of people on here talk about interning in PWM during that summer, so we'll use it for this situation. Would it be better to get an internship in a big city (Detroit) as opposed to a smaller one (one that no one who doesn't live in Michigan would know), even if it's for the same company? I'd only have a year of college classes, so I wouldn't know much and couldn't contribute much, but I don't want to just file paperwork. What can I expect to do if I did a PWM internship between freshman and sophomore year? I want to work at a BB after college, if that makes a difference.
Dude...no one does work for freshmen year internship; I don't care if you interned in NYC or Nome, Alaska. The point of the freshmen internship is you file papers and then "talk about what your group did" and make it sound like you were contributing. That said, Detroit would be better, but it won't make that much of a difference. Getting the internship freshmen year shows ambition and is a resume filler/conversational piece during interviews. I had a freshman internship and I use it to say "I like the people, but I really wanted to do...... because its more client focused/fast paced/ect." during interviews. The best part is when you say that and your interviewer is a person who was able to transfer from MO to FO and understands what you are talking about.
So it would be filing paperwork and basically shadowing some people who do the real work? That's about all I could expect I guess.
Basically yeah. but I mean as long as you are personable and work hard you could request to do additional work. That work might be data entry or maybe looking at numbers. I worked in credit risk and had monitor if there was a breach of margin in the account. If there was a breach I made note of the account and told the guy which ones he needed to call/look at.....its slightly better than filing paperwork, but it's not exactly something meaningful. A lot of the time I felt like I was doing nothing/busy work to make it seem like I was doing something helpful. You forget it takes training to do all this stuff and most guys have way to much work to teach you how to do these simple tasks since they can do them themselves a lot of fast.....Just get the name on the resume and look for something big in sophomore year after you have more classes and "life" experience under your belt.
Would it be better to work somewhere like Bank of America, because it's a BB, than somewhere that's not, like Schwab?
Of course, if you can get it that is.
Haha yes. I live in the suburbs which at one point was the 3rd richest county in the country. I'm sure it's fallen, but there is still money here.
Freshman internship Opportunities (Originally Posted: 02/28/2011)
I'm a first year at a semi-target looking to go into IB. I have the my choice between two different internships this summer and wanted to know which you would consider a better experience to have on my resume. I have an offer from a Fortune 50 to intern in their Finance department, or I could intern at a BB in PWM.
Thanks for the help.
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He's got one grammatical error, get off his dick.
BB PWM are a dime a dozen, but a lot of us have went up that track. Note that you will learn next to nothing though. It will be printing and filing. By law you cannot even get on the phone with clients. And a lot of these are unpaid so you go in on your own nickel.
I'd vote fortune 50, just because you'd probably end up doing one or two legit projects that would be a lot better to talk about in interviews than anything you'd do in PWM.
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