Sophomore internship - does it matter for PE recruiting

Hi monkeys, 

I am a sophomore, and I have recently signed at an EB. At the moment I do not have a sophomore internship and I wanted to get your advice on what I should do next. These are options I am considering:

-Try to get a private equity internship to have some private equity experience for when I will recruit PE after IB and start to see if this is something I would like

-try to get some IB/asset management/finance just to fill my CV for the summer

-relax and do no internship

For more context, I am not diversity  

6 Comments
 

sounds good and the last question, do you think that what you actually do matters, like the experience you do might come up in interviews or since it is a no-name shop everything will be based on junior summer and FT experience? SB after this :)

 

Hey, I'm currently in a similar situation and was wondering what decision you made + whether you think it worked out. Please lmn and would love to DM if ur available.

 

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