Can a sophomore Operations internships lead to an IB internship in junior year?

Thank you! That was helpful

I mean you just have to be semi resourceful... You are at Ivy so you are ahead of the game and you'll have experience with the internship. All in all you'll be in good standing for next year.

As a sophomore, absolutely take the BB ops internship. Don't worry about being stuck in ops..you're a sophomore. You'll have a great name on your resume, which will help when gearing up for SA recruiting for junior summer. You will have opportunities to network within the bank and you'll be in a great position to get an interview for IBD next year. Don't waste your time looking for something else, you're already ahead of the game.

Take it, great opportunity. Good job dude.

That's great! Congratulations.

Funny thing is, I'm kind of in the same position. Soph with BB Ops offer but I believe I can get a boutique offer in my area.

It will only help if you network with the FO while you're there. The internship itself isn't going to give that much pull for SA.

I'd certainly say IBD at a small bank is better... as you'll actually learn / do something instead of just be in ops - which has no relevance to anything. That said, I'd think that GS opps isn't that bad a thing to do as a sophmore if you can't find another internship.

Boutiques always win, but if you are stuck with GS ops as a sophomore don't worry. The most important thing is to utilize the low hours you'll be working to network like crazy and start to develop actual relationships with as many contacts as possible. And halfway through (if your school is near a major city), start cold-calling those boutqiues for an unpaid fall internship.

Reaching out to contacts with no ib experience is great because when you finally line that unpaid boutique internship up, they can see your development and its more impressive.

Any other thoughts? Thanks for the input so far.

You're a sophomore, anything that shows your interest in finance is great. If you do the ops thing, make sure to network with the people in IBD.

I doubt it. You could place it within your shtick as a "great experience" for XYZ reasons, but you were "left wanting" for live deal exposure. It's probably an atypical choice though. Someone scanning your resume for the first time 10 seconds before an interview might draw the kind of conclusion you're trying to avoid - you'll want to have a sentence or two rehearsed beforehand to contextualize it.

But getting paid is underrated on this board. I can understand how people are willing to take unpaid gigs for resume content - I've done it too - but cash is awesome. And it may be worth taking this "hit" for the cash - and I don't really think it's a negative given you're a '14.

What would you be doing within OPS? If you could be supporting a coverage or product group, that would be ideal obviously.

No in fact it will help you tremendously compared to your classmates who had bullshit finance roles getting coffee at their dad's company. Just be ready to explain what you learned and why you want to do IBD instead of ops. I would have killed for a brand name ops internship my sophomore summer.

I think if you're good at networking this is a great opportunity.

Are you a sophomore or a junior? You had a thread a few days ago about full time recruiting out of ops... Are you just conducting your own personal survey?

Also, this has been ask a dozen times. Learn to use the search function.