<p>Couldn't get any internships for sophomore summer... How much does this hurt when time comes around for junior recruiting? Any advice on what should I do next?</p>
<p>You’re giving up that easily? You can still land some quality internships at local private wealth management branches or some local venture capitalist firms.</p>
<p>I already did global wealth management with ML during the school year. I was trying to get something other than GWM because I don’t want to make it seem like this is what I’m aiming for.</p>
<p>I’m on the Bay Area btw, so I’m not sure if there are as many financial firms as the East Coast.</p>
<p>Sure you keep thinking that.
Now I know why don’t have an internship.</p>
<p>Yea seriously dude, its April 9th…you have at least a month. Pathetic is the only adjective right now. Keep trying! You’ll land something, good luck! :)</p>
<p>It’s still really early in the cycle for small boutique IB, PE, Consulting, VC, etc positions. Your goal right now should be to land anything relevant to IB. H*ll, start cold calling and emailing for unpaid positions. It’s not an easy business to get into - remember that - you can’t give up easily.</p>
<p>On a side note - if you can’t find anything, it’s not going to break you in terms of SA junior recruiting. Network hard, keep your grades up and you should be in decent shape.</p>
<p>PM me if you have other questions or need someone to glance at your resume - which often causes a lot of problems for people.</p>
<p>IBanker</p>
<p>Contact the CFO of your school, they usually have the best contacts. Let them know your interested in an internship this summer. Out of nowhere my school’s CFO remembered a conversation we had and forwarded an email to an IB Managing Director and now I might be interning with them…its all about who you know!! And stalk craigslist, you never know who will be posting something. At least if you get a quantitative analysis internship it would look good, these days IB’s want students with more technical skills.</p>