Should I even bother?
Im a incoming sophomore going into my second year at Vanderbilt and didn't get any offers for a freshman year internship besides a sales intern at Aflac. Im looking for anything to fill out my resume given its freshman summer, but im scared of the negative implications i might face by putting an internshp like this on my resume. Will this hurt my resume if I put this on? Should I even do this or is it a complete waste of time?
p.s i want to go into IB and couldn't care less about being paid right now, just need something for my resume.
Chill bro
i am, I promise! any input?
You go to Vanderbilt, relax. Spend this summer learning as much as you can about finance, maybe you don’t even like IB who knows.
Main thing , when u come back to campus start immediately studying for technicals and networking. By November you should be ready and that’s when ib season will start. If you network well, you should get interviews if your gpa is good and you go to vandy. Don’t fuck up the interviews and study then you are fine. Relax
This is what i was going to do. Study and complete the CFA exam during the summer, maybe a bit of networking, but my sister who has been in prestigous hf roles says I have to do something and it looks bad to do nothing the whole summer. conversely, ive also seen posts saying that doing these kinds of internshps and putting them on your resume significantly hurts you. Any thoughts? Im a white male with a 4.0 Applied math major.
Yea it’s not good to not have anything done over the summer, but it’s already June you aren’t gonna get an offer for this summer. Idk if you’ll get CFA done over summer, takes a long time to get done and not as worth as you think it is. If you want to study for anything, study LBO/DCF/financial modeling. Study all the ib technicals. You could go get your securities license in a summer easily.
You also mentioned doing those kinds of internships looks bad, what kind of internships? If it’s something like northwestern mutual yea do not do it unless you got corporate in Wisconsin. But from my pov any experience is good experience
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