Rising junior with no internship experience. Please help!
I feel like I really fucked my life up so I'd really appreciate any help.
I have a 3.6 GPA from a HYP school, with a major in History. My freshman summer, I stupidly just traveled over this summer and didn't do that much. And then when I was a rising sophomore, I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I just had a lot on my mind with school, and didn't apply to enough internships, and ended up getting no internship offers even though I got several interviews at boutique banks.
I'll just say what I have on my resume: I have a during-the-schoolyear internship from my freshman year during the school year working in marketing and business development at a start up, and I have some experience working at a real estate agency during the school year.
So now I'm in the situation where it's summertime, and I have no solid internship experience this summer. I'm helping my friend's dad to work on the budget and business development for his business, and I can spin it as relevant experience, but obviously it's far from ideal.
I went through the Vault guide and the BIWS guide, and I plan on studying it more. But I know that for most BBs, offers have already been mostly given out, and very few with my background would get offers without connections. So I'm applying everywhere but mostly targeting MMs and boutiques, and am going to start networking now.
Did I mess up that bad, like is there any coming back from this? I've been really worried lately and I don't know what to do. Just apply to everything I can and hope for the best? Take a year off? Go to school for another year, get an internship, and then take a year off so I have an extra summer?
You're not too late as long as you FUCKING SEND IT.
Get all your technical down pat, reach out to alumni contacts at any bank you think you can even remotely swing at. You gotta shotgun this shit.
If you haven't sent out apps do so TODAY and start networking ASAP; The school name can go a long way.
You're not fucked yet, but you are touching your toes in the prison shower. With any luck you won't find Big Mike creeping up behind you.
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I agree with the above, it's not too late, but you have to move quickly. Sounds like there are some things that you can speak to as far as experience. Internships, while helpful, aren't required. I know multiple people that placed BB, EB, and MM without any internship experience. You can still place well if you are diligent.
Why major in history if your goal is IB?
Classic choice for HYP...
I guess nobody cares about your major when you go to HYP
I would personally recommend to play the long game - try to find a part-time unpaid internship during the school year. Leverage that to getting something more structured in the summer. If that doesn't work out, take an extra year for school.
People are so rushed to get out of school nowadays, doing the standard 4 years. I get it - school is expensive. At the same time, IMO it's even worse graduating with no solid career prospects and being unemployed/doing unfulfilling work that was a last resort. Take your time, personally grow & develop as a human being, get some solid work experience - and that will transfer over to an interview setting through demonstration of poise and maturity.
This was/is me! I am a rising junior and I too switched my major recently to finance and have no internship experience and only have one upcoming finance item on my resume. I was able to get a lot of experience in other fields from my double major. But I will say what someone once said to me "it doesn't matter what you do, it just matters how well you do it". Long story short I have a superday coming up with Goldman Sachs this month.
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