I Failed to get a Finance Internship. Now what?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>I'm a JR at Tulane University and I have a 3.7 in my business classes. I applied for 17 different banks in the Fall including everything from the biggest ones to smaller ones and I didn't get a single interview. Both my resume and cover letter templates were all good according to career development people. I went to two different career fairs on campus and talked to the people representing the companies I liked, got their card, etc and I thought I would AT LEAST get an interview. Wrong.</p>

<p>It's not like I was applying for IB. I just wanted a simple finance internship on the research side.</p>

<p>So I'm desperate at this point. In fact, I just applied for Sherwin-Williams Paint and Rent-A-Car internships LOL.</p>

<p>The funny thing is that I actually transfered to Tulane from a non-reputable state school to get better opportunities in finance. In doing so, I pretty much lost a semester, and as a result, I am a first semester junior who can't take an introduction to finance class until the Fall, the 2nd semester of my junior year. Is the fact that I've never taken a finance class hurting me? Should I change my career aspirations to get an internship?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>One of the reasons you are having a hard time is that for all intents and purposes, you are still a sophomore. You won’t be able to graduate until December, 2013, which means that companies won’t be able to extend FT offers to you at the end of this summer.</p>

<p>Keep applying to companies… you shouldn’t stop applying until you secure a position of some kind. For this summer, consider opportunities outside of finance, including jobs that aren’t internships. With good application materials and a solid GPA, you should have more luck next cycle, when companies will know that they can extend a FT offer at the end of the summer.</p>