Weekend-only Internship during School Year?
This is probably a bizarre question. I'll be a sophomore at a target thats in a fairly big city with a few HFs in August and want to get more work experience in high finance. This summer I'm doing a PWM internship at a BB.
Obviously, I won't be able to do an internship during the school week (taking 5 classes) but is there ever such a thing as a weekend only internship where I could intern for most of the day Saturday and Sunday?
Would it be weird to e-mail some hedge funds in the area and asking them of this?
Not sure about others on this board, but yes, I'd find it weird.
A lot of people take courses and do part-time internships during the week, why don't do you that? And to improve your chances, offer to work for free if money isn't an issue.
That worked for me, so it is possible especially if you go to a target.
Mez is right - try getting an internship where you come in a few days a week in the afternoon/evening. IBs will always have people in the office until late night so you can learn and contribute much more than in some weekend internship, of which I've never really heard of.
It may be possible. Not sure about HFs but I know a guy who did an unpaid "externship" in consulting that lasted one weekend and led to him getting summer offer for an internship.
^wow. Was the summer offer from the same consulting firm? Did he specify on his resume that the externship only lasted one weekend?
Doing an internship during the school year is not weird (many people from Columbia and NYU who I know have done them - also, during Darthmouth's long winterbreak I know that some people do internships. However, asking a hedge fund for an internship on weekends would be extremely weird. No one would be around on weekends with whom to intern. What I would recommend is trying to get all of your classes scheduled Monday-Thursday or something of that nature so that you could come in on Fridays.
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