Sneaking into Bulge Brackets: School Year Internships

Hi Guys,
Quick question: has anyone had luck working their way into bulge bracket offices for some sort of unstructured school year internship? I am thinking specifically of "non-NY" cities, like Chicago or Dallas, where this might be more possible. Any tips here?

Thanks!

 
Best Response

Relatively impractical in IBD, as part-time interns can be a serious liability to the deal process (if you can't finish a deck and have to go to class, the team has to wait for you to complete the assignment before moving on, or wait for you to tell an analyst what you've been doing, etc.)

The few I've seen do part-time IBD internships at BB are typically seniors returning FT, just picking up hours for pay during their senior years.

JPM offers a part-time ER internship in NYC. GS/MS have offered credit risk part-time opportunities in the past. Networking may yield some results, although the opportunities of this nature are likely more the product of luck/connections than true merit.

Just FYI though - Jefferies offered a part-time IBD internship this spring in the healthcare group, Houlihan has been known to offer internships on their advisory teams, and Lazard did night shift internships once upon a time.

 

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