ECM Internship to Generalist or Coverage

Hi Guys,

I have a question relating to the process of moving from summer internship to analyst. If I were to complete a summer internship in ECM at a BB, would that then prevent or make it harder for me to apply for a role as a generalist or in a coverage group as a graduate? I've read a lot on here about it being harder to start in ECM and make that move later in your career (or indeed to move to the buy side), but am looking for advice specifically relating to the move from summer internship to graduate analyst. My assumption is that an internship is an internship so to speak, but obviously I have little experience...

Thanks.

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If you have to choose between no internship or an internship in ECM, you should definitely go for the ECM internship. At your stage, any kind of work experience will be a plus. You will learn a lot, have something concrete to talk about in interviews and most importantly (since you apparently do not want to work in ECM), you will be able to network within you bank. If you work hard and they like you, they will make an internal transfer possible (depending on the bank´s need, obv).

What is true however, and that's probably what you have read on WSO, is that if you work a couple of years in ECM, the move will be hard. But this is absolutely not your case. This internship will weight a lot on your CV. Take it.

Hope it helped & congrats on the job!

 

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