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 am coming out of junior year. I don't want to be an investment banker though. I want to work as financial analyst still but not in a company setting but in a bank setting.
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.
Sophomore Year Summer Working at Fortune 500 non-ibank (Originally Posted: 02/17/2007)
How beneficial would it be to work at a Global Fortune 500 company regional office prior to the summer of your junior year but in a non-financial related way.
There is a Fortune 500 company that I might get an internship with but its for document management. Basically its trying to improve upon the organization of various documents so they can be accessed faster by management.
Not related to finance at all but you still get the Fortune 500 name on your resume.
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.
I agree and if finance is what you want to do it will help your resume
Leveraging F500 Summer experience for FT IB (Originally Posted: 06/17/2014)
Hi,
I'm an MBA intern in Finance & Strategy at a well known F10 company. I'm interested in recruiting for IB (and possibly corpdev) full-time. My position has already exposed me to tons of deck-writing and DCF modeling (IRR/NPV) to help pitch potential investments to company execs.
Is there any other experience that I can try to gain during the summer that could be beneficial for full time recruiting this fall?
Thank you.
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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