Deleting College Internships on LinkedIn
I just graduated from a non target school, and in order to break into IB I had six separate internships, and various extracurricular positions in finance and consulting organizations on campus. One internship was in corp. dev at a tech startup, another at a hedge fund, and four in M&A across different industry verticals. The most recent was at a pretty big firm in tech M&A, but I re-recruited elsewhere to do capital markets work (I think it's more exciting). I start working this summer, in NYC.
My concern is that future colleagues will look at my LinkedIn and think I'm scattered, all over the place, or incapable of staying at one firm. This really isn't the case. I wanted a bunch of different experiences before I enter the workforce…for personal growth and professional development. I'm glad I accomplished my goal, but I'm not so sure I like how it looks.
Should I delete all my college experiences, maybe save one or two, and start my career with a fresh slate? Am I setting myself up for failure if people expect unrealistically high-quality work because of all my positions? As anyone with internship experience knows, it's mostly BS anyway! A lot of good experience for sure, but also, it's just a damn internship. Most important are the connections I have because of them.
So…I was a try-hard in college. I don't want to be branded as a try-hard in my job. Do I wipe my LinkedIn clean?
Who cares what they think.
I would agree, but in my end-of-summer review this past summer, two of my mentors (VP and MD) said the office was judging me at a higher bar than other interns because of my internships. Honestly I was dumbfounded by this, but now it's kind of what I expect, and I want to control what I can.
You are way overthinking this. Keep them on there, the advice about switching jobs too much definitely doesn't apply to internships... there are very very low expectations on work quality for first years starting out regardless of where they interned and no one will care enough to look it up
You're probably right, but it makes me feel unsettled when I get notifications that my coworkers and interviewers are viewing my profile. Pretty consistent too.
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