Undergrad With Some Questions for the Pros
Greetings Gentlemen,
I am just beginning my Junior year at a non-target, private school in Western New York. Here is my "resume" to this point:
- Smart, driven, good people skills, excellent work ethic.
- 3.34 GPA, 3 straight semesters over a 3.25, weak first semester of freshman year.
- Worked a part-time, unpaid internship at MassMutual Financial Group this past summer (Buffalo office). Learned about mutual fund side of business as well as insurance.
- President of my school's Economics & Finance Club.
- Will be a member of the "Golden Griffin Fund" next year - a student run, professor advised portfolio that has grown from a $100,000 endowment in 2002 to a $130,000 portfolio today. Includes large financial lab with modern equipment.
- Full time student, also maintaining a 20-hour per week work schedule.
Now, I've been doing the best I can to work on the GPA. I know it doesn't look as good as it should, but I think my track record since shows how dedicated I have been and will continue to be since.
My question is as follows: What do those who possibly had a similar experience as I did recommend I should do for my junior summer internship?
I'm coming up on my big internship summer next year. I don't have any delusions I'll be working for a BB firm in I-banking (although that would be my dream), but I think I can compete for some other opportunities on a somewhat similar level. Where should I be looking? Do I have a shot at PWM? Or should I head another direction? I guess what I'm asking is, if I want to be working for a BB firm one day, where would be the best place for me to start now?
Thank you, and like always I cherish your brutal honesty.
lol your details just revealed your school...
Anyways, you should aim for the boutiques. Check out some firms in Toronto as well, since you aren't that far away.
Did you really write "3 straight semesters over a 3.25" on your actual resume?
the golden griffin sounds like a terrible fund. pretty sure the SPY has a better return than that.
Well I mean it is a fund run by students of the business school, not quite professionals yet. The decision making comes down 100% to the students, so I can see why you might be unimpressed.
Not my actual resume. I just wanted to give people an idea of where I stand so that people could make honest recommendations is all. I would never include such details on a real resume.
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