From what I understand for junior internship roles you are meant to begin networking and applying and all around 1.5 years before the internship .By that time you would not have even begun your sophomore internship so I wanted to ask if this is okay and if not ask when exactly the optimum time to intern as a sophomore is or more directly if a summer internship worse or equal to perhaps a fall internship .
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They can definitely help you get interviews especially if you have a F500 company / finance related one. In regards, to it being before the summer, most resumes I've seen just put "incoming XYZ".
At the same time, I know many people who didn't have solid stuff locked for sophomore summer and focused more on junior recruiting and knocked it out of the park
Thank you
If I have a BB sophomore analyst internship, would I still have to network a lot as a non-diversity male for EB recruiting?
I highly doubt it as BB s are as prestigious as it gets but i think it will definitely give you an edge because even as a summer analyst nothing is guaranteed .
I've found that it really helps once you are in the actual interviews for junior SA, assuming your interviews for junior SA are during or after your sophomore SA stint. A major reason why I got my junior SA was because I was able to speak intelligently about the work I did during my sophomore summer, which was very relevant to the junior SA role. I'm guessing it helped me get the interview as well, considering I didn't network at all and made it to superday, but I'd say it can really set you apart during the interviews.
I'm going to say that they don't matter as much as you would think (I'm a soph about to go into recruiting).
Unless you have a UMM/MF or BB SA role no one cares. Get on a networking call and tell people what you're doing and they might say "Cool." I think networking matters 10x more than your soph role.
so you are saying it is better to intern before the recruiting cycle however the exception is UMM/MF or BB S/A roles, how about the big 4 s?
I'm saying I don't think your internship matters outside of BB and Buyside. For reference I'm going to a Big 4 and no one has ever been like "wow! you're such a strong candidate". They say "that's cool" and move on to something else.
Interning before/during SA recruiting is probably the most useful as you can actually talk about the experience. With that said your internship don't matter nearly as much as networking/interviewing.
Why do you care so much, didn't you ask another stupid question yesterday and then said your like a sophomore in freakin high school. I assure you if you relax and take things as they come you'll do a lot better. Also, I think this overeager desire makes you probably someone unpleasant at the worst and a finance hardo at the best, both of which will prevent you from getting places.
What is wrong with just trying to be prepared obviously I am not gonna be talking like this normally I just wanna get some information and understand the process.
Lol. I'll just chime in and say that a good chunk of the people that I knew in the past that had sophomore internships were able to transfer to other BBs and go to selective EB/HF/PE. The one thing that was different though was that since they were doing their sophomore internship in person some people either had to bounce from work early to walk to other offices for interviews, do interviews secretly during the day somewhere in/near their office, or schedule them very early or late at night. I feel like this made the application pool a lot smaller due to risking your current job but this enabled you to be in the very early part of firms' recruitment processes.
With the way that recruiting is now due to COVID and possibly how it'll stay in the future, it's probably much easier for people to shotgun a bunch of applications as a sophomore SA which makes the competition a bit more fierce for the "elite" junior SA jobs but regardless you'll still have a leg up compared to those without sophomore SA
But thank you for the advice
I got a top IB group internship and interviews at other banks including EBs and BBs without a sophomore summer internship.
did you do one during the school year?
no
You can go one of two ways with soph internship. Work somewhere where everyone knows the name and have some very minor role or work at a small shop and have a lot of responsibility and zero name recognition in interviews/applications. Once you get to the interview, the latter is much better IMO, you have a lot more to talk about and the learning experience is quite good. There's a small chance you can combine name + role but it's not super likely. Only a few names really help you get interviews for junior summer. As long as you have something somewhat relevant or interesting I think you're fine, but if you can get a good name, it can help you pull interivews.
I definitely think they matter and can help. If you want more detailed and specific advice on this topic I would recommend checking out Joinrainier. Its a service that connects students looking for IB jobs with students who have received offers at top banks. It's great bc the students just went through the process, so they can give youy advice with regards to how much their Sophomore internships actually mattered.
Thanks but why would you pay $50 for what you can get from a $15 coffee chat.
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