<p>I worked at an investment bank boutique on wall street in the summer before college. It was part of some program for the SCA where you worked in a firm and also took some classes on friday. I basically worked at the boutique four days a week for about six weeks.
I really didn't do anything except for organizing trades, filing, some internet research on finance information for the company. </p>
<p>I guess I was lucky to be able to work in the firm, but it isn't a real finance internship. Could this help me in getting an internship in my sophomore yr? I could spin the internship and make it sound good.</p>
<p>Don’t spin it. Say exactly what you did. It sounds great.</p>
<p>Don’t lie about it, but try to really emphasize the financial aspects of it as much as possible. Make sure you’re using the right action/impact words to make it sound good.</p>
<p>Don’t spin it? Of course spin it. Spinning does not mean lying.</p>
<p>You definitely want to put a finance/analytical spin on it as much as you can without blatantly lieing. You weren’t running any financial models, but the research can have some financial/analytical aspects to it perhaps, there could be some attention to detail, perhaps you learned some valuable skills or just general info about IB. The most important thing is to make it as relevant to finance and IB as possible - of course you don’t want to lie or embellish TOO much since you were, of course, in HS at the time and will not be expected to have an incredibly valuable or prestigious internship - just having something is solid and being able to point to any projects or tasks relevant to finance will definitely enhance your resume.</p>
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