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Should I hide my tattoos for summer internship?
To paint a better picture, I'm a 22 year old Canadian girl going into a summer internship at a BB in London next month. I have some visible small line-art style tattoos - three on left forearm, one on right forearm, and one on each ankle. All except one have a fairly significant meaning to me, not...
Should Interns Wear Ties? 5 Wardrobe Tips For Your IB Internship
“Business Casual” shouldn’t be so complicated. Luckily, one of my college friends was an analyst at the bank I was interning at. He answered my questions on the expected dress code for “bottom of the totem pole” interns. 1) Full Suit Day One Err on the side of caution. Can always take off...
I Fell Victim To Wheel Spinning As An IB Intern. Here Are 10 Efficiency Tips To Get Things Right The First Time During IB Internship
The biggest challenge I faced as an intern was finding the balance between… Exhausting my resources to “take a stab” making a full-effort first attempt & Asking my associate for help earlier to avoid wasting time spinning wheels …when given a task that I had no clue how to approach....
3 Ways To Prepare In The Month Before Your Investment Banking Internship
I was in your shoes last year and remember the feeling of creeping anxiety in the weeks leading up the highly-anticipated IB Internship. You worked your tail off all of Freshman & Sophomore year and don’t want to let it go to waste. If I could start from the beginning - I’d make sure to do these...
4 Non-Obvious Tips To Ace Your Final Project As An Investment Banking Intern
You can figure out what the SR bankers will grill you on before walking into the final presentation room. Read this to learn how. The final project during your IB Internship is a bigger part of your return offer than you think. It’s Recency Bias - it’ll be fresh in their minds when making a...
17 Thoughtful Questions To Ask JR & SR Bankers During IB Summer Internship Networking
“So….How does your wife feel about your work-life balance being a banker for the past 20yr?” Networking was my favorite part of my IB internship last summer. The nerves before chatting with the intimidating MD rain-makers were real. I wanted more than anything to make a good impression. I’m...
The 3 Life Skills Investment Bankers Have That You Should Be Jealous Of
Doing your two years of banking is kind of like parents sending kids to military school. You come out a different person, ready to handle anything life will throw at you. As the president of my school’s IB org, I’ve been lucky to spend many hours with the director of our program (30yr industry...
Three CRITICAL Mistakes That Will Cost You The Return Offer As A Summer Intern
Treat your 10-Week internship like the bachelor. Don’t reveal your flaws until after the final rose… You have TEN short weeks to make an impression. Like test driving a car - the bank can only learn so much about you in the limited time. Don’t give them a reason to think you’d be a wild...
Aspiring Investment Banking Interns - Ask These 4 Questions On Networking Calls If You Want To Be Invited To Interview
When I recruited for IB, I racked up networking calls faster than a frat dude’s body count freshman year. As a non-target kid, I played the #’s game and knew I HAD to stand out by networking. Did 70 calls in under 3 months. Led to ~10 CLOSE relationships that pushed resume for 1st rd. Here are 3...
3 Tips I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Before Starting My Investment Banking Internship
Bankers get annoyed with interns that waste their time, take forever to get tasks done & still get them wrong. I interned at an elite boutique in NY and was lucky enough to have an analyst mentor who shared three techniques he used to not piss off the older bankers. I didn’t learn these things...
4 Mistakes I Made As An Investment Banking Intern That I I Wish I Could Go Back And Fix
I learned 10x more during my 10wk banking internship than I did in my entire first 3yr of college. I could’ve learned 1000x more and been way less stressed if I changed a few things: 1) Wheel Spinning; 2) Weekends; 3) Targeted Networking; and 4) Note Taking For Future Resume Bullets. Read this if...
Ranking The Top 10 Non-Target Colleges To Attend If You Want To Break Into Investment Banking (And Got Rejected From All Targets Like Me)
There has never been a better time to be a Non-Target kid looking to break into IB. Hope is not lost if you don’t get through the crapshoot freshman admissions of the elite colleges. Target schools may have more reserved spots, alumni & direct recruiting than us Non-Target peasants…But our...
Are local Freshman PWM internships still an option?
Hello all! I am a freshman at a non-target liberal arts college interested in IB. I want to get a PWM internship in ML/MS/UBS this summer and have been cold-calling and cold-emailing many SVPs and MDs in these firms, and even once came in person with a resume to the ML group head. Yet, all of them...
2024 off-cycle internship
Hi! When do IB off-cycle internships that start in January of 2024 open for the UK and other countries in the EU like France and Spain? (Secondary question: if I still don't have a 2023 summer internship for sure right now should I wait to have one confirmed so I can put on my CV that I will be...
Remote work at a small boutique as a volunteer while in college
Has anyone had any experience working with banks (definitely not BBs) remotely while in college as a full-time student? One of my buddies got an offer at a small boutique to work remotely but since he is a full time student, given his circumstance, he was offered a co-op opportunity without pay. He...
How to find IB internships for Sophmores
I am currently a rising sophomore, who recently decided that I want to achieve a career in Investment Banking. My university points all students to Handshake to find jobs, but I have found this site somewhat lacking for IB. Furthermore, I continuously run into the problem where I find an interesting...
Morgan Stanley SA 2022
I saw Morgan Stanley’s IB applications have opened up, and wanted to start a thread on this for their recruiting timeline. Has anyone done the hirevue questions yet? And has diversity already gone through super days? Thanks!
JPM Full Time Offer Dependent on Group?
I know a lot of commenters are saying on other posts that almost any group is willing to give you a FT offer unless you mess up, but the DI group said that they specifically want to give all interns FT offers, but healthcare takes 18 interns (or so I heard) so wouldn't that mean it is much harder to...
JP Morgan IB Group Questions/Technicals?
Is it true that Healthcare and M&A ask technicals if you set up a networking call with them during placement? What kind of technicals do they ask? 2. Are those the only groups with technicals? 3. What are the group rankings in terms of PE exit opportunities? 4. What are the group rankings in terms...
Investment Banking Summer 2021 Analyst Recruiting
Does anyone know which banks are still recruiting for summer 2021 analyst position. I prefer the West Coast but New York is good for me too.
Thoughts on New Century Capital Partners in L.A. for internship experience?
I'm looking for internship and I came across New Century Capital Partners. They have a pretty rough internship program: full-time (70+ hours) and unpaid , which is kind of crazy. They seem to take non-target kids from local state universities. The founder also recently started a PE fund called El...
Sophomore in the midst of 2020 IB recruiting season looking for resume critiques
Hey guys, I'm currently going through the process of recruiting for a junior SA position in IB for 2020. I've been networking, going to events, cold-emailing alumni ect... Before I start submitting my official applications to banks, I want to make sure my resume is the best it can be. For the banks...
Q&A: Non-target sub 3.0 GPA -> VC, M&A, PE internships
Hi guys, long-time lurker here. Recently signed up to contribute to the community - a lot of the information I've read contributed a lot to my success in finding internships. The title pretty much says it all: went to a non-target university, had terrible grades, but still ended up doing internships...
No-Name Quality Investment Banks
There is a lot on this website about the boutiques you should not work for, and we all know about the elite boutiques that provide useful experience (Lazard, Evercore, Greenhill) but are there any small, no-name investment banks that provide valuable internship experience? Specifically, did anyone...
Investment Banking Internship - Unpaid - Worth or Not?
Hello Everybody, Is it worth working for Canaccord Genuity in Dubai as an unpaid summer intern? They do however reimburse living expenses. Is it worth considering this option considering that the people working in the office are extremely bright and the experience is great? Thank you
Internship Tradeoffs...
Hey guys, This is my first post on this forum and I have a question to ask you guys. Would you rather do a paid boring internship with potential opportunity to win a full time offer after a long period or an unpaid exciting internship which gives you real deal experience but there's no way to get a...
List of London Investment Banking internships accepting applications from Final year students?
Hi everyone, I am looking to find a list of investment banks in London that are offering internships to final year undergraduate students that are not applying for a Masters. Thanks.
List of Investment Banks that offer Winter internships?
Was wondering which banks offer a winter internship. Im assuming BBs don't, How about the smaller elite/regional boutiques? Location not a issue.
Networking Meeting with the President of Boutique Investment Bank, what do I ask him about? Best way to ask for an internship?
Hi all, I am a recent graduate who is going to be pursuing an MSF starting in the late summer/early fall. My goal is to break in to investment banking, but I do not have previous IB internships. I know it is late but I am still hustling to get something, even unpaid and informal, for this summer. I...
Fall Internships offered at Moelis?
Just wondering if anyone know if Moelis & Co offers any Fall/Winter internships. I am doing a business valuation internship this summer so trying to get an IB fall internship. Have read all the post on here about fall internships and have scouted LinkedIn bankers who have done fall internships at...
S&P Dow Jones Indices Offer - Should I take it or continue gunning for IB?
Hi guys, I'm a Junior that just got an offer to work at S&P Global's Dow Jones Indices Finance/Analytics internship. Has anyone done this internship/knows anyone who did so I can get some insight?
Non-target GPA
I'm a sophomore at a non-target and I'm looking to get into IB . Believe it or not, we have a few alumni at BB IBs and boutiques haha. Anyways, given the fact that I'm at a non-target ( I have solid internship experience in my freshmen year and in process of getting one for this summer, a leader in...
Transfer Pricing at Big 4 internship vs generally unknown MM/Boutique IB internship?
What internship would put me in a better position to be a competitive applicant for full time IB recruiting next year? Thanks
Persuing Investment Banking, Rising senior, sudying abroad in spring, no internship currently. Is there hope?
Hey so I'm a rising senior at a target school (little ivy) with a 3.5 Econ major. I worked for a large tech firm my freshman year and a very boutique wealth management firm last summer. I have been unable to land an IB internship for the summer so far. I'm home for a month (January) then I am in...
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