advice on how to find internship opportunities?

[littlelady]

I've been a bit frustrated from looking for internship opportunities... what i was doing was brute force searching. anyone could give some advice on how to look for them?

 

[Ken Abbott]

No one can help you if you fail to tell us
who you are
where you go to school
what you're studying
what experience you have
what you want to do.

Maybe even post your resume.

 

[DominiConnor]

Ken is being harsh, but fair.

One result of the education system is that too many people are taught that there are good clear solutions to problems, often these solutions are elegant. Teachers praise elegance both in your work and in the things they teach.

This ain't such a situation.

To be asking such a question, I have to assume that you're not in some program where internships are being found for you. I infer that this is a less 'branded' program.
...or not, you have not shared much.

I'm told by some of my younger staff that there is some sort of 'enternit' on many computers, apparently it is quite the thing for finding pornography and illegal music, perhaps even pornographic music.
These 30something whippersnappers claim that you can actually find useful things using 'goggles' which apparently aren't any form of eyewear. Who knew ?

You need to goggle for banks, hedge funds, regulators, asset managers, and lots of other wordy things that will give you a list of people who might, just give you an internship if you write a very good letter introducing yourself.
Most won't.
We are Capitalist Bastards (tm), and enjoy nothing more than sneering at humble pleas for employment from your working class types. But sometimes, for our own amusement we take on such people so that we may both take pleasure in payronising them, and offload some of the work that the office cleaners regard as too menial.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I've been a bit frustrated from looking for internship opportunities... what i was doing was brute force searching. anyone could give some advice on how to look for them?

How many firms on this list have you applied to
Quant Internship and Graduate recruitment - A Firms List

 

[euroazn]

Hahahahaahahahaha Dominic :P

I can't wait for the New Quantnet, I'll have to be sure to "like" that post.

 

[HyperVolatility]

I've been a bit frustrated from looking for internship opportunities... what i was doing was brute force searching. anyone could give some advice on how to look for them?

Brute force is a perfectly fine method to look for job opportunities. However, if you do not know what you want you cannot decide where to go.

1) Find out the roles you would be interested in (at least 3)
2) Make a list of the companies that are actually in that type of business
3) Select the big names from the list and exlcude them.
4) Go for mid-cap companies (banks,funds, prop houses) because you would learn always more there than anywhere else and the hiring process is not that burocratic *.
5) Cold call them and send them your CV
6) At the same time get yourself a good recuiter (this could be quite time consuming because finding a good recruiter is very hard)

* In a big bank when you start as a intern you won't be doing much and you could end up in a department where you are a quant and your boss is a manager with a degree in History / Political Science / Contemporary Arts from an Ivy League Uni or Oxbridge.
A mid-cap cannot afford to have incompetent people they need money and motivated staff so they will teach you what you really need.

hope it helps

 

[Anthony DeAngelis]

Dial and smile my friend. If the phone isn't your preferred medium, start emailing. Most off cycle internships are unpaid and not always the best, but it is a good way to network and build up your resume. I interned at three places in Philly during my MSF, all from cold emails.