Should I take this offer??
I recently received an offer from a major European bank to work as an intern in their risk management division (HSBC,CS,BNP, Barclays level) in NYC. I am pretty excited about the opportunity, but its a year long internship and I am a Junior in college at great school(Harvard,Yale,Columbia).
I am conflicted about taking it because on one hand I think its a great opportunity to learn more about the back office roles at a bank and the knowledge/training could translate well into a career in S&T or Consulting full time once I graduate. On the other hand, a year is a really long time and it will mess with the flow of my education and disrupt my well established social and academic placement I have at school with all my friends and peers graduating by the time I return.
At the same time, I have a REALLY bad GPA (currently 2.7) and I feel like I should take this opportunity to build credibility and experience on my resume so that I have something to show when the time comes to find a full time gig.
Care to share your thoughts on my predicament?
Yes you should take it. That is really an awful gpa.
You mention your "well established academic placement" and then your "REALLY bad GPA"
Something doesn't jive.
Take the job. Put money in the bank. Finish school. Profit.
You better take it.
Personally? I'd take it. It may not seem like it now but either way you're going to lose contact with those friends...others will grow in a different ways from how you do and you'll drift apart.
So bit of wisdom from a guy who'se got almost 10 years on you:
NEVER pass up a good opportunity because you're worried about losing a friend or two. They'll always be a part of network.
Basically I'm saying take it. Risk isn't a bad gig and it's one of my favorite mid-office roles because you learn a LOT about firm strategy and macro-economics that you wouldn't necessarily learn even in a front office internship. Plus I've met some guys who had risen to the top of that career path. They were doing pretty well for themselves.
He's saying(poorly) that he's got a bad GPA at a prestigious school.
"My well established social and academic placement"
Like I said, the guy's not a good communicator. He doesn't seem to describing things well, but since he specifies his GPA I'm going with that. Overall impression I'm getting is that his biggest obstacle is that he's comfortable in his groove and is worried about disrupting that. I say that's stupid to worry about it because the disruption is going to happen anyway so why not let it be disrupted for a good reason?
Coming from someone else with an awful GPA, yes, you should take it.
Your "education flow" won't be disrupted by an internship and if your "established social and academic placement" with "friends and peers" is really "well established" then they won't be affected either.
You need an in, and this is that. Don't pass it up for bullshit in ridiculously worded sentences.
100% take it. If your friends are truly your friends then you'll still have them no matter when you/ they graduate-- so that's not an issue. Your GPA is, however. TAKE THE INTERNSHIP.
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Since a lot of people are very confused about what I mean when I say "well established social and academic placement" let me clarify:
I have a good network of people at school that I am well acquainted with which is something I have found to be crucial as of late to forming quality study groups and project teams.
I don't mean to say that I am doing well in school, which I obviously am not.
Why does the quality of your study and project groups matter when you have completely shit performance?
if you are at columbia, or close NYC school, you can still take classes. Even if further away, take as many as possible online during the year. This opportunity is great and would suck to graduate and then have nothing lined up.
Have to agree. youll kick yourself down the line if you pass this up and later have nothing. Take it and make it work for you. in your final year of study im sure you have some room to take electives online if your school isnt in close proximity to the office. then next year would only need to do 1 semester in the fall, hopefully to start FT with risk mgmt in the winter afterwards. Good Luck
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