How do you get a junior year finance internship with no prior experience?
To get a full-time offer at a BB in IBD, you need a junior-year internship. Sadly, it seems like you need a prior internship in finance to even get the junior-year internship.
I'm a sophomore with a 4.0 GPA, studying CS at a target, with internships at 2 tech companies under my belt (and I just took an offer from a hot Bay Area startup for sophomore summer). I want to try getting into IB, so I'm teaching myself accounting and getting an econ minor.
I applied to a lot of boutique banks for spring internships this semester and got absolutely no replies. What am I doing wrong? How do I fix myself to get an IB internship junior year?
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Anyone get a Junior internship without relevant experience? (Originally Posted: 03/25/2012)
Just curious. I was unable to secure an internship as a sophomore (still looking, though). Is it possible? I am still going to spend the summer networking, might do some summer classes to boost GPA.
Thanks in advance.
You have plenty of time to find an internship for the summer. Might be over for you in terms of BB recruiting, but there are plenty of boutique IBs, HFs, PE shops that might take on interns.
It's still march. Summer is nearly 2 months away. Why do you think you are unable to secure an internship?
Cold Call, Cold email, etc
Worst case scenario, just get a PWM.
PM sent
I did. Top 20 undergrad OCR paid (same as IB SA) buy-side equity research position in manhattan.
^ What did you do your soph summer?
any suggestions for boutiques or PEs to cold call??
My best friend from high school goes to a piece of shit university, majors in physics, hasn't even taken business courses other than accounting, and landed an SA position his junior year.
Network your ass off, take a boring PWM internship this summer, and make it happen next year.
If you are willing (able) to take an unpaid internship this summer, I think you can still find boutiques that are hiring. What's your location? NY, West coast, dirty south?
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