Is it possible to pigeon-hole myself in an internship?
I recently had an interview and expect to get an offer from a very small investment management and financing/consulting firm for an internship. Its a BO role during internship with potential to move to FO when flipped to FT after internship. However, this firm offers services to primarily Native Americans, and I've been told by a few mentors that a FT role would pigeon-hole me. However, one told me that even an internship would, but I do value the financial modeling training that the position offers. Is it even possible to be pigeon-holed from an internship? To add context, I have one internship in Corp Fin in telecom industry and another in fraud investigations at a credit union. I want to go IB, but I wasn't able to secure a SA offer (haven't given up, but timeline is running short, even for boutiques that I'm targeting).
Wouldn't say that it would pidgeon-hole you. Although most IBs would prefer hiring interns they have 'test drive' if they can, so FT recruiting will be hard.
An internship is better than no internship, but if you could do something with a bigger name I would, like just something in the finance department of an F500 could be helpful, even just from a signaling standpoint.
And you would recommend an internship at a company like that even over an internship with modeling/pitch experience?
If the day to day of the role is back-office investment management, I would.
Probably need to know more about the company to give you a real answer - investment management and financing/consulting encompasses a shit ton of stuff. Is it PWM for native americans? Is it a fund/portfolio?
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