Underclassmen Internship

I am currently a freshman at a target. I am interested in getting an investment/finance internship this summer. However, I don't really have too much official experience (which I understand most freshmen don't though) aside from a bit of basic self-learning. I have a few questions:

Is it too late now to start looking? I thought this was the time most firms would be hiring, but I heard that it's already too late...
How should I go about doing this? I've applied to most of the internships through my school's career website, but didn't really get any responses/interviews. Should I just look up a list of boutique firms in my area and just email someone in those?
Thanks in advance.

Nyc area if anybody is curious

 

I would look into small regional banks and keep your options open like some of them have opportunities were they don’t really have a class standing requirement. Key bank has a retail bank internship open I think as an underclass man would be a good experience to do.

 

learn this now....most of the best jobs recruit in the fall for the following summer....so you are too late for most summer 2020 internships...they do this because they are in a race to get the best talent. can you find something for summer 2020? yes. Will it be awesome?...probably not. goto your schools career fair, if you didn;t already miss it (look up companies that will be there before you go and do 5 min of research on each...this will put you ahead of most other students who just wing it)

 

freshman get picked up last for internships so I would say no you aren’t late ... this year. just keep searching around. I went to a non-target but didn’t bag my fresh man year internship still the week after spring break. Thus the point is that for freshman, recruiting now is the time, so just double down and keep grinding.

 

also I found that how it tends to work is you have no leads for a long ass time, and then all of a sudden you get like 4 leads within like 1 week. so just keep applying, networking, etc.

 

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