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If you intern for a PE firm or HF ur gonna need excel and PP skills lol
What value will you add without those skills? Nepotism hires remain undefeated in being useless
All future employers will be able to tell it was a nepotism hire so I doubt it really matters. Focus on being able to create some sort of value-add and have an interesting story, I did a local data science internship freshman summer which is totally irrelevant to IB/PE/HF but since I actually took the lead on projects it was a great thing to bring up in interviews.
Yeah gotta second this - taking the lead on projects is hugely important because it gives you talking points for behavioral questions.
That’s what I’m debating- is it even worth it to try and get a freshman internship like PWM even if it came from networking since the natural assumption is that it’s family connections?
An internship that gives you relevant experience is good whether it was through nepotism or not. I know some very smart kids whose ability to land great internships was greatly boosted by nepotism freshman internships in PWM-type roles. It's ultimately your job to sell whatever you did in future interviews which is possible regardless of the content but is made easier if it's more directly applicable.
Most freshman internships are nepotistic in some fashion anyways, who wants to hire a freshman, so unless it's a truly extreme example (son of oligarch works at hedge fund his dad has 8 figures invested in) nobody is gonna judge.
Freshman hardos might be the worst thing to happen to the finance industry
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