PE Associates in B-School -- What to do during summer internship?

Former PE associate in b school, planning to return to the industry after I graduate. What's the best way to spend my summer?

I don't think PE will be particularly helpful at this point, but maybe MBB consulting or some kind of strategy role at a FAANG company or a start-up?

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would probably gravitate towards corp. strategy or ops roles in whatever industry your fund targets just to get some perspective from the other side, but startups could be interesting too

 
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You have a lot of flexibility here to be honest. As long as you can tell a story on the back end recruiting side. For example, I think the FAANG role / startup isn't a difficult sell even assuming you aren't in tech oriented PE. You can easily spin that as you wanted to try something different and understand a phenomenon which has become so big over the past decade.

I work in manufacturing / industrials PE and ended up finding a pretty unique operating role for a family office where I was in pure operations at one of their businesses.

 

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