Internship Dilemma...? Would like some advice

Hey everyone, I have a sort of "dilemma" regarding internships for this summer that I was hoping to get advice on. Just some background, I'm a rising sophomore at a non-target state school. Through tons of networking, I was lucky enough to get two different "internship offers." The first one is remote doing PWM at a pretty large insurance firm, however, the internship is unpaid and seems unconventional. Let me elaborate: it's only 4 hrs/week where 2 hours are dedicated to actually "working" with wealth managers on products for clients while during the other 2 hours they bring in people from different firms/in different careers in high finance to talk about their experiences. I was going to kind of fabricate the experience so that it looks like I learned a lot when in reality I wouldn't have learned much (the manager who offered me the internship said, and I quote, "you can spin this internship experience into a career that you'd actually like to get into.") However, I recently got a second internship offer with a middle-market commercial real estate brokerage based in NYC where I mainly perform market research and reach out to high net asset owners in the area who are selling land/buildings (maybe sit in on deals/closings, idk). Although the internship is still unpaid and remote for half of the summer (they said I can work in the office during July/August) it's more legitimate, where I'll be working 20-25 hours/week under some of the directors/analysts and actually learning about market research, reaching out to potential clients, and a little bit of property valuation. I think I would really be exposed to the real estate sector and I think this would be a great opportunity as I want to break into real estate IB in the future.


My question is: which one would look better on my resume and be more relevant to talk about during interviews? Would it be okay to do both as the hours are do-able for me? Would it look suspicious doing both during the summer? Which one is a better set-up for IB? Sorry about the long post but any help would be appreciated, thanks. 

 

Doing both would be weird if the dates are the same. If you want to get into RE IBD, definitely go for the RE brokerage firm as you'll get relevant exposure to this sector, will be able to explain clearly why you are interested in RE when interviewing later, and will have an internship on your CV that proves you're interested in RE.

 

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