I Failed to get a Finance Internship. Now what?

Tomaldinho
Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:34:20 +0000

I’m a JR at Tulane University and I have a 3.7 in my business classes. I applied for 17 different banks in the Fall including everything from the biggest ones to smaller ones and I didn’t get a single interview. Both my resume and cover letter templates were all good according to career development people. I went to two different career fairs on campus and talked to the people representing the companies I liked, got their card, etc and I thought I would AT LEAST get an interview. Wrong.

It’s not like I was applying for IB. I just wanted a simple finance internship on the research side.

So I’m desperate at this point. In fact, I just applied for Sherwin-Williams Paint and Rent-A-Car internships LOL.

The funny thing is that I actually transfered to Tulane from a non-reputable state school to get better opportunities in finance. In doing so, I pretty much lost a semester, and as a result, I am a first semester junior who can’t take an introduction to finance class until the Fall, the 2nd semester of my junior year. Is the fact that I’ve never taken a finance class hurting me? Should I change my career aspirations to get an internship?

Thanks in advance.