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Highly doubt you'd be able to get a FT position in IB without a college degree, try do an internship either in your penultimate year or find some off cycle internships just like everyone else does it, then finish your degree and search full time employment
Employers don't really look at gap years positively, from my own experience whichever one of my friends took a gap year they just went to travel around Europe and Asia and get absolutely hammered every single day. In school we were advised to hide our gap years in our CV as best as we could
Best of luck either way to you
Thank you for the answer. I am french and french companies do not offer summer internships. I already have offers in france for 6 months internships but I cannot accept them because of the time constraint. Therefore, my plan was to do two 6 months internships after my penultimate year and then to go back to the U.S. with significantly more experience. This would allow me to land a FT position or an internship in the U.S. with the Visa being less of an issue because of that added experience. Does that sound like a more reasonable idea to you?
Hmmm maybe, that doesn't sound that bad, but I think it'd be a bit too much to do two internships and then search for a third one in the US as well. Do either one or two, finish school and go search for full time employment right after graduating from college. Why don't you want to work in Paris though? From what I've heard it's a nice place to work, especially Lazard in Paris if you want to go into an EB and your English seems to be quite good and plus you speak French as it is
Gap year doing off-cycle internships? (Originally Posted: 06/08/2015)
Hello all,
So a little background on myself: I'm currently serving in the Korean military (service is mandatory here). I'll be discharged next year August. I go to a regional target school in the west coast. Finished sophomore year before enlisting with a 3.8 GPA. 2 previous internship experiences: both of them in my home country. 1st one was in an Airline's Corp Strategy division, 2nd was in an In-house consulting firm for a conglomerate. Trying to get into consulting/finance.
Rather than returning right away to the States and getting on that Junior year hustle, I was thinking about taking a year off before going back to school, doing some off-cycle internships in Asia to strengthen my resume. I just wanted to hear some opinions on the idea. Would this be a viable option? What does WSO think about a year off for off-cycle internships? How would employers view them?
Thank you in advance for any input.
If you want to do an internship in the US, you should maybe try for an off-cycle internship in the U.S. Too many internships in your homeland will discredit your credentials if your goal isn't to stick around in Asia.
Can't intern in the States off-cycle due to Visa issues... :/ (I would only be able to get my CPT a year after returning to the States) I am aware that too many internships back home could hurt my prospects... But would that be the same if I worked in other countries in Asia? (Singapore/HK/etc.)
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Academic Year - Good or Bad? (Originally Posted: 07/05/2017)
Taking a gap year from university and get a temporary break from the academic stress can be most students' wish, especially the students who always look to overachieve and spend utmost effort on either academic or extracurricular participation at school.
What one can do during gap year to experience personal growth and self development includes: - Considerate and set goals about future career prospect and discover the passion - Travel around different places and meet different people in a non-academic environment - Taking internship and involve in a full-time, real job setting - Spending time on acquiring extra certificate including CFA, CPA certificate - Learning another language (which is more useful than you think!) - Spending more time with your beloved family, friends, or significant others
A gap year can result in a more energetic, motivated status for learning if one utilized it instead of wasting the time.
Are you talking about a gap year between hs and university?
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