Do I keep this weird internship?
Hello, For context I am a sophomore at a community college transferring to DePaul University in Chicago for finance next semester and my goal is to pursue IB.
I recently got accepted for a corporate finance internship at a beverage distribution company and they had me doing all sorts of weird shit, like printing out invoices from clients and entering checks into some system and balancing them out in a balance sheet (which does not seem like finance at all to me).
It was my second day today, I asked around, seems like this is all the work is gonna be. Is it worth keeping this internship just to put “corporate finance intern” on my resume or do I just leave and put in my 2 weeks or what?
I left a different job that paid better, was more chill (literally didn’t do shit for 70% of the work day) but it was not finance related, so I will definitely go back to my old job if this current internship wont help.
Thank you in advance.
if this is ur only "finance" internship it's better than nothing. We all gotta start somewhere. Stick it out at least 2-3 months (the length of a summer internship). My first "finance" internship at a search fund was unpaid for 4 months during the semester and I was basically just cold calling and spam emailing people. 0 "real" finance work. But i had something to point to on my resume when I was applying to internships for that summer and that's all that mattered. Used it to land me a legit corp dev internship for sophomore summer, then used that land IB SA junior summer at a reputable middle market bank. Used that to recruit full time and land a BB offer. Embellish what you actually did on ur resume if you have to, everyone knows it's bullshit but if u can tell a good story that's all u need. Fake it till u make it man
Damn that sounds brutal but i’m glad that initial internship worked out for you! You gave me a lot of hope, and I wish to do the same as you in the future of my recruiting!
Agree with above, definitely better than something unrelated. This will help you land a more relevant internship down the line. This sounds like a back-end job, but your priorities should be
1. doing good work so they trust you with more,
2. figuring out how to ask for more strategic work,
3. if they don't have strategic work, figure out how to spin this on your resume to be more relevant. I wouldn't make anything up or say anything untrue, but you can and should word things in a very flattering light even if they're not groundbreaking tasks
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