Fortune 500 summer finance internship to Full-time mid-office job at an Investment bank

I have a finance analyst summer internship as a junior in college at a Fortune 500. I accepted the offer awhile back so I wont back out. After much thought and information I have received about the company, it is not somewhere I would want to work full time after graduation. I instead want to work at an Investment Bank in a MO position. Will it be difficult to do that if I did not have a summer internship from the bank I want to work at?

 
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Are you going into your junior year, or coming out of it? Obviously, the best situation is that you intern at the company/bank you want to work for. Conversely, the worst situation is having no internship at all. This late in the spring, you probably won't be able to get an IB internship anyway. Having a F500 internship on your resume is great- You'll just need to work on developing the story you can tell interviews at IBs. Why your desires shifted to IB, etc. No job worth having is easy to get. You'll have to work on networking to get interviews at your target bank, and then work on your story and your people skills so that you do well in the interview. It would obviously be better if you were interning at your target bank, but you are by no means out of the running for getting a job there. Keep your chin up, work hard, and don't be closed off to the idea that you might enjoy your internship and want to stay.

 

I see. Unfortunately I have no experience/knowledge of what banks are looking for in a financial analyst, but I do know that for most (if not all) companies, having a financial analyst internship is good enough to get you hired and it doesn't matter where it was. Obviously, the size and industry of the firm and the breadth of your experiences will help you, but most financial analyst internships are the same.

 

You need to stop worrying so much, and I say that in the most encouraging sort of way.

Just get some kind of work experience that will make you a better professional, and give you the chance to figure out what your career aspirations truly are.

 

Network with people in the industry. Use the time you have in the summer to meet with alumni, contacts, etc. I'm assuming you're interning at a big city (NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.) and that your hours aren't too bad. Use your extra time to meet with people now, and you'll have a much easier time during recruiting. You'll have people to hopefully help you interview and give your advice along the way.

 
enti98:

Network with people in the industry. Use the time you have in the summer to meet with alumni, contacts, etc. I'm assuming you're interning at a big city (NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.) and that your hours aren't too bad. Use your extra time to meet with people now, and you'll have a much easier time during recruiting. You'll have people to hopefully help you interview and give your advice along the way.

Thanks but im pretty far from nyc.

 

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