General Internship

My mother works with someone, who is the wife of a Vice President at Federated Investors in the Pittsburgh location. Through her, I was able to get in touch with the VP. He called me for an informational interview in November 2012 and I was able to tell him about myself, some of the college experiences I had been in, as well as some of the classes I was taking. He also spent several minutes explaining his role in the company as well as what the company does (for example, he talked about what mutual finds are and what Federated offers clients).

Over the next couple of months, I was in touch with him via email; I sent him my resume and he asked me to revise it a couple of times before he passed it onto the HR department.

In April 2013, I was finally contacted by a women from the HR department. She kindly explained that they had already hired enough interns for Summer 2013, but she still wanted to talk to me to get to know me. So I went through another informational interview with her, talking about many of the same things as I did with the VP months earlier. At the end, she thanked me and said she would let me know if any new opportunities opened up. Of course, I plan to stay in touch with the VP and apply again for Summer 2014.