No live deal experience on internship - what do I even write on my Resume?
Just a quick disclaimer - due to WFH compliance restrictions from my bank, interns were not allowed to work on any live deals
So basically here's my situation: Been told I'm not getting a return offer from my virtual IBD SA due to headcount so have to start thinking about FT applications. Despite constantly begging for work, I pretty much spent the time just updating comps and creating company profiles/ research/ aligning slides for pitches - apparently there was "nothing else we could do". Did no modelling outside of training.
How on earth am I supposed to spin this on my Resume into looking like I actually added value/ learnt something during my internship, or something I can talk about at interviews? Feeling like this was a massively wasted opportunity but it's not like I could even do anything about it
If anyone had any ideas on this/ similar experiences it would be really great
What type of bank and what your return offer rate?
MM and it was group dependent - my group was 25%
Had a similar internship experience (no live deals). Had an interview and the interviewer was obviously very understanding considering it was a bank wide policy and completely out of my control.
On my resume, I just focused on the training and the final project we did. Even though its clear I didn't add any value, I still made it sound like I learned a ton and would be well prepared for another banking role.
Thanks a lot - I had great training and had to do a final project so can definitely talk about them.
How did you go about quantifying those experiences on your resume? Or were they generally more "descriptive" bullet points on your resume
Don't want to speak for others, but I for one do not expect a pre-FT to have real deal experience.
If someone says they worked on a live deal during summer internship, I will MASSIVELY discount whatever responsibilities they claimed to have had (unless they say something real like: helped set up data room/worked on Q&A/contributing to some slides). In fact, I might even really grill them if they say they worked in the model. And even if they say the truth, I will see it as impressive only because they were trustworthy enough for some other analyst/associate to staff them.
In reality, the things most of us care about are: motivation/appetite to work, technicals, attention to detail (with this we can teach you the rest) and can I stand to work with you. Show us that from your summer internship experience.
But the real question I will have though is "Why didn't you get the return" - so be solid and honest or at least feign humility in your response.
How valuable do you think a VC internship is, considering that I did good amount of work?
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