Internship or School?

Hi,

I may have the opportunity to intern full time for 40 hours a week at Egon Zehnder, a leadership management consulting firm in the fall. This would effectively mean that I would take the semester off from classes at my college.

Is it worth it?

 

what? You don't have to go to class to pass classes. Do the internship, study after work since it's only 40 hrs per week, and take the tests/do assignments as usual.

"Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way. In twenty years, if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house to watch the Patriots games, still workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill you. That's not a threat, that's a fact.
 

If that's the field you want to work in when you graduate then you should do it. Otherwise, of you are just trying to get experience to fill your resume and want to go into another field then I would say no. In the end, your résumé has to make sense and explaining a semester off when it isn't normal for your school would be difficult.

Fear is the greatest motivator. Motivation is what it takes to find profit.
 
Best Response

If you are looking to get into management consulting, you better be able to explain why the hell you took a victory lap to graduate. Your scholarly performance and branding is important to a management consulting firm, they don't want their clients to think they hire 2nd tier candidates to handle their strategy work.

If you are talking about an MBB internship, then by all means do it. This internship will do more harm than good.

Imagine you are a hiring manager and you see this kid took an extra semester to graduate, but you gave him a chance to interview. When you ask him what why he took an extra semester and he said he did an internship that is completely not related to your industry or the job he's interviewing for, will you not see him negatively?

The only times where it won't ding you on an interview with taking an extra semester to graduate are: - You defeated cancer during that 4 month period - You felt compelled to head out to Haiti to help those poor folks that got devastated by the earth quake - Your folks both loss their jobs and you had to hustle to keep the family afloat - You got kidnapped by the cartel because of mistaken identity and kill your way out of captivity

 

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