An intern with a British multinational bank told InsideIIM that one of the most important qualities for those aspiring to get into the world of finance is being discreet and honouring confidentiality. When working with big clients you have access to their confidential data and so you should have a knack for keeping information to yourself.
InsideIIM talked to students from top B-Schools who interned in the banking and finance sector. Read the articles to get more tips on how to successfully complete your summer internship in the finance domain.
It is indeed like a dream come true when an engineer with no finance background lands up an offer in equity research. What piqued his interest in finance as an engineer? How did he build up his base in just 4 months before his summer internship process? What did he do differently? What were his 2 months like at HSBC? Gaurang Gupta from IIM Shillong shares answers to all these questions and more in this detailed article.
Cracking Goldman Sachs as a fresher itself sounds interesting and challenging at the same time, isn’t it? Jatin Nagpal of IIM Bangalore has hands-on experience at the same and in this article; he shares useful tips for all aspirants looking forward to bagging a finance internship with Goldman Sachs. Also, he shares important information on how to handle networking events, something which can be quite dreadful even if you are someone with work experience.
Anirban Paramanick decided to leave his well-paying product management job to pursue his MBA. From a product management role, he landed an offer in Edelweiss Capital in a finance role, something absolutely new to what he was previously exposed to! The transition was not simple and got him introduced to several new aspects of corporate life. He writes all of that in this article to share his experience.
From struggling to find a stay in the city of dreams, Mumbai to landing at three different cities to interact with customers, Sanjoli Jain’s experience at Mahindra Finance was nothing less than a roller-coaster ride. In this article, she shares her experience of meeting targets and interacting with people to understand their requirements visiting door to door. Challenging yet adventurous!
If Viral Satra of IIM Nagpur had to explain his internship experience with ICICI Lombard in one sentence, he would say, “
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”. Viral worked with ICICI Lombard and with the rich learning experience that he had at the company, he says, the program is rightly named, “ANUBHAV”! Read on to know his experience in details.
Aman Vats from IIM Ranchi shares his entire experience, right from the placement process and his interview to his work at ICICI Lombard in this interview with InsideIIM. Read this interview to know what a typical workday would look like for him and what did he do differently which helped him bag a PPO.
Gaurika Singh, a PGPM student of IIM Indore interned at Philips in a finance role and received a PPO from Philips as well. In this article, Gaurika shares about her internship experience along with a few tips which she believes would be beneficial for anyone looking to intern in a finance role. She also mentions in the article how the interns, on multiple occasions, could have frank conversations with the CEO of the Indian Subcontinent Market. Sounds interesting, isn’t it?
You dream of a career in finance and then you land at the right place. Can anything be better than that? JBIMS is exactly the place for finance enthusiasts. In this article, Summet Mohapatra shares his experiences with AkzoNobel and provides numerous tips on not just how to ace a finance internship but also how to prepare for it. He interned in a corporate finance role and in this article, he has talked about his project in details as well!
No internship is complete without inputs from a mentor, learning from whom is an experience in itself. In this article, Madhumitha Gnansekar, an engineer who interned in a finance role in Dell Technologies talks about how she derived knowledge and guidance from her mentor, how she led her transition from engineering to finance, and how her entire summer internship experience was like.
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