I'm Cooked... What Do I Do?
Good afternoon fellow monkeys,
I hope all of you are doing well! I am a college senior, and over the summer I completed an S&T internship at top BB (GS/MS). I attend a low-tier Ivy and have a fine (3.8) GPA. I did not receive a return, and haven't landed another offer since. Given how late it is I'm really getting worried....
Should I delay graduation? Go to a masters program? Is there anything I can do at this point?
I'm posting in the IB forum as it is more active than S&T and I'd assume that advice should generally be similar.
Thank you so much!
I get that this is a tough situation, but at the same time, what have you been doing since last summer? The moment you found out you didn’t get a return offer, you should have been networking aggressively, leveraging your school’s career resources, and exploring every possible opportunity to land a role. If a master’s program was on your radar, you should have decided in the fall to give yourself a shot at re-recruiting for a 2025 summer internship (and even then may have been too late) but now in late January that window is already closed.
If I were in your shoes, I’d focus on graduating and securing any FP&A, corporate finance, or banking role and start rebuilding from there. You have an ivy brand and a strong GPA, which still helps and you might be able to lateral into IB in a year or two if the market picks up. The key now is getting experience and positioning yourself for the next 1-2 years IMO unless something happens to fall out in the next 2-3 months before you graduate. Best of luck
What feedback did you receive after your internship? Is there anything you can significantly improve?
I would find a way to get another internship if you haven't received any full time offers yet, either through delaying graduation or graduate school.
As the other poster yet, you could also find another field to get a full time role and rebuild.
Either way, you need to find a way to get relevant work experience that you can do full time.
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