To intern or not to intern during the year?
With no prior finance experience, but a good GPA (3.6) from a top target school with a degree in Economics, how important is it to work somewhere part time during the school year if the goal is to get a S&T internship at a BB next summer?
I'm going into my junior year. I didn't get any offers for my sophomore summer and I'm kind of nervous going in to my junior summer recruiting period. Is it much easier? or do I really need to do everything including working part time to get in?
do you do anything else on campus? If you have a good GPA at a top target but don't do anything on campus, you should find some sort of activity, whether it be working, doing volunteer work, etc. But if you're well-rounded, i don't think i'ts necessary.
Usually much harder to find an internship your soph summer anyway. Sounds like you'd be in a good position come next summer...assuming you do other things besides study.
yea have some extracurricular activities, but they are not business related. although i probably shouldn't be, i'm just concerned because people i knew got as many as 2 sophomore summers offers and i didn't even get interviewed. so i have no finance experience on my resume, but plenty of other things
you're okay. Esp. if you're from a target i'm assuming you go to one of the ivies or some liberal arts school with no finance major, etc. They don't expect much from people with no real access to financial courses, etc.
i can't speak for other ivies/targets, but if you go to princeton, just talk to alumni. they will take care of you.
i think this may work well for smaller type jobs, but this can't be true with large corporations with beaurocratic hiring processes. people can't just "give" people jobs at huge companies.
no internship....get good gpa
is this just your opinion or do you know for a fact that the GPA pulls much more weight for a recruiter? would you recommend 4 classes or 5 classes (would be worse on the GPA)? i can take 4 "easier" classes and get away with it, but do recruiters look at transcripts to find out how many classes you took and what they were before granting offers?
Think in terms of marginal value. If you have NO internships, the first one is going to hold a lot of weight. If you already have two or three under your belt, it would be better to focus on your GPA. You don't want to go into full time recruiting with 0 internships, that is killer. You will be disadvantaged going into junior year internship recruiting with no prior internship as well.
i have 3 internship experiences, but they are in random areas, not finance. still serious internships though. the no finance internship thing is what's worrying me
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