Help! No work as Summer Intern!
Our team is over-interned, so analysts/associates tend to give work to those interns who have been working there for a few months. New summer intern like me don't get work (sometimes no work at all for a day) .... this is really frustrating. I don't want to keep hustling, sending out email, asking for work, especially when there is no reply.
How should I approach this? Is it common for new interns to have no work for the first few days?
btw I believe our team really has little to do currently, as most of the people are out by 8:30pm....
You could try to help out those interns that do get work, then associates will see that and give you more work. You could try to do something that needs to be done without being asked to do it. That's sort of hard to be specific about since it totally depends on your circumstances. What I found is that fresh interns can be an annoyance at times because in many cases it'll take just as much time to explain something to an intern and train them on how to do it as it would to just do it yourself. So take the approach of not asking for them to come up with something for you to do and explain it to you, which maybe is the reason why you aren't getting much, and just start working where you can. Then you'll gain some momentum and they'll see you not as an intern they have to keep busy but as a workhorse
This may not be what you want to hear, but if you don't have anything to do, start reading investopedia or something or look through the files on the server..i was in the same boat as you earlier this summer and i basically just taught myself the basics of financial modeling etc by going through old files...when my mentor kind of guy started to explain me stuff, i already new a lot, which probably made him more likely to give me more and better tasks
Everyone is in this position. They just want to make sure that you can be trusted to do the work.
Be proactive as mentioned and find work to do, read the analyst training manual, go through the corp drive etc.
Sending out emails and asking for work is actually really annoying, so you should probably stop that.
Get coffee, be helpful, try and keep up on news on the different projects you're working on.
If you're engaged and seen as someone who is helpful, the work will come to you.
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