Hi!
I'm wondering if it is a good thing to mention that my family is poor in the cover letter? Maybe I can also mention that I'm the second of the whole family to go to university (my sister did 2 years before)?
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My initial reaction would be: "don't mention it".
But it would also depend how you word this entire scenario.
Ok, that idea came to my mind because many banks ask if we are the first of the family to go to university. So I imagine that banks have an "equal opportunity quota"?
I think "overcoming obstacles" in life deserves a story, everybody likes the underdog. If you have had a challenging upbringing and you made it to this particular interview nonetheless, I would respect you more for it.
The wording for this scenario is important, I'd spent a decent amount of effort on this.
I have no idea what the quota is for underprivileged applicants in each company, but it would be useful to know this. Try finding a senior member of staff in this company who had an equally challenging youth (don't mention it, just see whether the firm is open to this kind of diversity).
I don't think there is a quota on this but not 100% sure. There is a quota definitely on nationality. By the way which region you're asking for?
I'm french.
For my first internship, I'm looking for an internship in Europe because my English is not so good atm. (France/Luxembourg/Switzerland/ maybe England)
But for the next internship, I would like to go outside of Europe. (USA/Dubai/HK)
So my question is about worldwide.
Frenchs do have a quota at banks by the way but talking about UK not worldwide as you cannot get internship in USA or HK if you don't have American citizenship or study there in case for HK you need to know and speak Mandarin fluently. Dubai I am not sure but don't think there is a quota for frenchs there though you can definitely get internship even if you don't have citizenship and you don't speak Arabic
ok, thank you for those pieces of information... even if I'm really disappointed to learn that I can't get an internship in the USA.
My business school has some exchanges program with some universities in the USA (I think these universities are not targeted in IB). If I do an exchange in the USA (only exchange not a double degree), can I do an internship in the USA?
Generally when you fill your application they ask you whether you are the first generation to go to university and also some bank applications ask you if you come from low socio-economic background so I won't suggest putting it up in cover letter but you can definitely discuss during your interview when they ask you competency questions but then be careful how you word that. Also people at banks hardly read cover letters they just give it a glimpse
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