Archive for April, 2010
InternshipKing is hosting a people’s choice award for America’s Best Internship. The top 10 internships have been selected and final round voting begins today.
During the interview, my professor said he found out that the candidate great. He found out that he was a black belt in jiu-jitsu. They hired the candidate.
My point – be prepared for the investment banking internship interview so that you don’t come off as an idiot like me! Good luck with the internship search!
Turn your resume from a check in the box to an asset. Make sure you include everything you can do that is relevant to your investment banking internship. Let them know that you are smart and can get things done.
If you love the work on Wall Street, these hours won’t be a problem for you. You’ll thrive at your investment banking internship. But not every single person is cut out for investment banking internships.
It is incredibly easy to forget the objective of your internship resume. It is easy to think about creating a beautiful document that showcases your history. It is easy to make a killer resume, but hard to get an internship.
Why on earth would anybody just submit an internship resume online? This makes zero sense as your chances of landing the internship are close to about .3%.
Your resume can be a huge asset when you’re applying for an investment banking internship. What do you think JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, or Merrill Lynch wants out of an investment banking intern? They want students who are experts at banking and can get things done. They want you to be organized, [...]
For many, there isn’t enough room on there for everything you’ve done. This is a good problem to have, but an obstacle, nonetheless. Let’s get one thing straight: extending your internship resume to that second page simply isn’t an option.
Take a look into two leading computer science internship programs.
The site is literally this simple: black out your name, upload your internship resume, and then send it off to people for review.
What are you waiting for? Go vote for your favorite internship!
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Following a template for your internship resume screams that you are being fake. Be real and be yourself in your internship resume. Format it however you want. Be creative. It won’t kill you.

