Help! Not Getting more work as an Intern

Hey Guys,

So I've been working at this internship (6th week), and It started with boring work. This was to be expected, but eventually, I got to do modeling/dilligence & other interesting work. I will admit, I messed up on one thing, but my boss eventually said "just ask next time if you have a question." I though that was that and moved on. However, as of late, I am now back to doing the more boring work as apposed to the work I was doing with some other associates. I'm always asking to do more, and told there's nothing, but other interns are doing more work that just came in. I'm planning a sit down to get a performance review next week and see what I can improve on. Any thought on the sistuation? I could really use the help,

Thanks in advance

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Most importantly you also have to understand that you're an intern, not a FT employee and not somebody who I can trust to produce perfect work that doesn't require for me to double/triple check it.

Point being - if ANYTHING is time sensitive, I probably am never giving it to an intern. If ANYTHING is high-touch, I probably am never giving it to an intern. If ANYTHING requires me to spend more than 10 minutes to explain it, I am never giving it to an intern.

Not knocking the hustle / desire to take on more but appreciate the free time while you have it.

 

Have you pestered people, been given work, and poorly delivered? We have two interns I gave work to: First intern, is the intern assigned to my team. He asked for more work, I gave him some tasks and told him: this is NOT your priority and everything else should go in front of this task. I did not expect him to not turn the work in (one week in...) He is a bit of an idiot, but I thought I'd give him a chance. If he is not even fucking trying... He recently asked me to help him figure out how to do a task another of my colleague gave him (after never having completed what I gave him) - I told him to GFO.

Second intern, not on my team, super humble and after having a chat I told him I'll give him some interesting stuff to do. I sent him the task I had sent to the other intern. Next day it's complete. Not only complete but almost perfect - clearly there are some things that can improve but I can see the guy busted his balls to sort it out. I have been giving him assignments every day, and he keeps on delivering WHILE at the same time working for his current team.

Needless to say I know which one I will recommend to my mates still in IB and which one I don't give the time of the day to anymore. (I am in PE and we don't recruit much out of undergrad).

It's one thing to ask, it's a whole other thing to make sure that what you were given shows you spent a lot of time executing on.

 
"Prescott Moncrief lll"

Ask for **MANAGEABLE** tasks, and then do better work, so they trust you enough to give you more work.

Always remember the golden mantra - underpromise and overdeliver.

GoldenCinderblock: "I keep spending all my money on exotic fish so my armor sucks. Is it possible to romance multiple females? I got with the blue chick so far but I am also interested in the electronic chick and the face mask chick."

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