<p>I am looking to gain an internship for summer next year.</p>
<p>As an economics major, where would be the best place to look in terms of finding such an internship? Ross I know generally helps you out quite a bit, and I understand we Econ majors are forced to look a bit harder.</p>
<p>In which field(s) are you interested?</p>
<p>Apparently nothing, haha.</p>
<p>For me, hedge funds, trading, IB… I’m still learning a lot about all of the different areas. I already have an internship this summer but next summer I’ll be looking for more. Aside from cold-calling and asking family members and friends of family members, what else do I do to get interviews and internships? Can I just show up to a recruiting event at Ross or the Engineering school? Because LS&A (+honors) is really not helping me at all… literally everything I’ve gotten here, I’ve gotten myself.</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, when are recruiting events? When can I find out. I never know there’s recruiting for engineering going on until I go to Pierpont and can’t get in the door.</p>
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<p>Yea, welcome to LS & We Don’t Help Our Students Get Jobs. (Get it? Kind of like the LS & Play nickname.)</p>
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<p>Not much more you can do.</p>
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<p>Ross’s iMpact has a calendar that anyone can view. Here’s a link to a random week in November: <a href=“Event Calendar: Today at the Ross School of Business - University of Michigan Business School”>Event Calendar: Today at the Ross School of Business - University of Michigan Business School;
<p>Had Rothschild, DB, CS, MS, and more info. sessions. Most recruiting events are in the fall. Full-time events are earlier, summer events are later.</p>
<p>Don’t know about CoE.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it rolls off the tongue quite nicely.</p>
<p>I hate cold-calling… not so much the act as the fact that I have to do it. Sometimes I wonder where my tuition goes.</p>
<p>lmao…do they really call it “LS and play” on campus?</p>
<p>^yeah they do, some engineering friends say it all the time but i think its kinda mean just because some of them have it easier than us.
I’m sure coe sents out an email to coe students from time to time, i remember emails for both the fall career fair and some smaller recruitments. i think there’s a calendar in coe website as well.</p>
<p>Yea it’s basically an engineering joke referencing the fact that a good deal of LS&A coursework is easier than engineering. Largely true I would say, but on the flip side, there are a ton of engineers who are terrible at writing (and thus would get smacked in english/philosophy/history/etc.).</p>
<p>The only person I’ve ever heard say “LS & Play” was someone in LSA. Given, I’ve only been here a year. Maybe the lingo hasn’t sunk into all the freshmen’s vocabularies yet.</p>
<p>To pancakes and anyone who has tried cold calling, how has your success rate been, and what are some good (or standard) things to say on the line? Do you call using your cell phone or what?</p>
<p>(My 500th post on CC!)</p>
<p>pancakes, what year are you?</p>
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<p>See post #9:</p>
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<p>And giants, are you a rising sophomore?</p>
<p>Rising senior.</p>
<p>if you’re not in bschool i think you can pay to access the job database in impact to get recruiters’ contact information for all the firms that recruit at ross</p>
<p>You do not need to pay to gain access to which employers are coming when/where. You do not need to pay to gain access to recruiters’ contact information (all you need is a B-school friend’s login information). You do need to pay to gain access to sign up for open interview slots. But none of the good jobs ever have any because the B-school kids will eat them up. Oh, and if you’re going to an information session, make sure you dress appropriately. Finance = business formal, consulting = business casual.</p>
<p>Recharge, interpreted one way my success rate is 100% because I always succeed in getting an interview/offer. However, interpreted another way, my success rate is low because I have to contact a lot of companies. Some of them don’t even respond to my emails and therefore I bet that a lot of my emails are not even read. Sometimes I get a short reply (giving me the feeling that they are pretending to be interested to be polite) leading to no further contact, sometimes I get a “Thank you for applying for our internship position” robot email that makes no sense given the context considering I hadn’t technically applied yet, and sometimes it is impossible for me to set up an interview. </p>
<p>Usually I throw out a forward-heavy email loaded with a concise statement of my intent and my stats. The stats are there to keep them reading because I have very, very good stats. I also call when I really want a response, but I have to be careful because I think you can end up on someone’s s***list if you do this the wrong way. With regards to contacting companies, I can’t be too much more helpful because I don’t have a clearly defined method; after the initial contact, I just wing it each time and it seems to work out well. If anyone has suggestions, they would be welcome!</p>
<p>So Recharge, you have to realize that no one is guiding me through this process and while I have success, I may also be making mistakes. In other words, I don’t really know what I’m doing–but it seems to be working well, so I try to keep doing whatever that is, figure it out as I go, and try to establish some sort of system based on what does and doesn’t work. I should probably contact my friends/family in business and ask them for advice when cold-calling. I can’t believe I haven’t done this already… I usually forget to ask for help because I’m too independent. </p>
<p>Anyways, that’s my experience with cold-contacting. Thankfully, I also have connections.</p>
<p>^More or less my approach as well. What’s your major and year, pancakes? In what industry are you interning this summer?</p>
<p>Giants, I switched to pm because I don’t want to reveal too much personal information.</p>