Can’t get internships.
How do I actually land an internship? For background, I study a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Finance and am in my penultimate year. I feel like I’m doing everything right, WAM 85+, doing networking, heavily involved in student clubs, resume follows an IB template from wall st oasis, I tailor my resume and cover letter to every application.
I’ve applied to literally everywhere, big and small firms. I’ve tried accounting, tax, audit, consulting, transfer pricing, M&A, wealth management, asset management, corporate finance, IB, private credit, etc but no luck at all. I’ve put through over 100 applications in the last few months and I’ve had 40 rejections already. Just feels like a humiliation ritual, I actually don’t understand how people get hired for internships these days.
I presume the reason for most of my rejections is a lack of experience.
If anyone has some tips, tricks or advice, I would really appreciate it a lot!