When to start looking for summer internships
How to Get an Internship over the Summer (the easy way)
it's summer you're having fun with your
friends you're playing PlayStation
quarter GE all of those nice games but
you're watching movies and laughing and
just having a good time with people or
you're working out go to the gym trying
to get hench trying to impress Julie or
Jack or whatever floats your boat mate
you know what you deserve it exam
seasons overall you should enjoy
yourself yeah man that's the video
Donnell just wanted to relax and chill
out however at the back of your mind
that there is something there but you
know what it is but you kind of want to
block it out let's assume that you're in
uni and you constantly see other people
get internships and work experience a
huge firms and you just think to
yourself how is this done doing this or
let's assume that you've graduated but
you feel like you're late to the game
and everyone is moving on without you
but regardless of your age you want to
work for a big firm or a big company
whatever it is you want to make yourself
and your family proud but you just don't
know how to start it's intimidating and
it's overwhelming it's impossible to do
this right wrong big man very wrong in
this video I'll explain to you what I
did and what my friends did who are also
20 years old like myself and what we did
to get internships
police sirens yay and what we did to get
internships and graduate jobs at the
biggest firms in the world this summer
can literally be the reason for why you
land one of those placements if you
follow the tips in this video you don't
even have to dedicate all of your summer
to preparation so just give me a few
minutes of your time and trust me you
will not regret this okay as a quick
disclaimer I am basing all of this on my
own personal experiences in the field of
commercial law I've just finished my
second year and I've achieved multiple
vacation schemes and training contracts
multiple international law firms some of
the advice I'm going to be giving you
will also derive from the experiences of
my friends who have internships at JP
Morgan Deutsche Bank earnest and young
and all these big financial firms and
they told me what they did to get those
internships so that will be my main
focus however a lot of the things that
I'll be speaking about can be
transferable to other industries so even
if you're not trying to enter the
financial industry you can still benefit
from listening okay let's just get
straight into this man point number one
is you would need to spend your summer
building up your network and trust me
it's not as hard as
think its own so why would you need to
do this having people around you who
have experience in the industry is so
important maybe you think that you can
never secure a job at the top company
because information is so limited and
you just won't know what to put in the
application or what to put what to say
in the interview for example well if
your network consisted of people within
that industry you can easily ask them
questions and I am out any
misunderstandings and the information
that they give you can be the reason for
why you get a job in the firm or in that
particular industry so how do you do
this one way is by looking at your
University programs I'm at the LSE and
there's a mentoring scheme which
connects mentors who are professionals
in a certain industry with students I've
got my training contract offer already
so I didn't really utilize the service
much but if I didn't get an offer then I
definitely would have used that because
they connected me with us a lawyer who
owns his own firm and he has a lot of
experience in law and I definitely feel
like if I had more conversations with
him he could have definitely given me
information that I simply couldn't
Google and he probably has the network
to connect me with other people in that
industry as well you know the rule guys
know the rule you meet one person they
can introduce you to three but the point
is look into a uni and see what programs
they have to offer you which can connect
you to other people and expand your
network okay the second way you can
develop an expand your network is an
underrated way which is linked in I
linked it as a social media platform
which basically is like it's like an
online TV where you write down your
experiences write down your grades put
like a nice display picture I know
basically selling yourself and selling
your brand to other people and the
fantastic thing about this is companies
are actually on LinkedIn and they're
actively looking at different people's
profiles and seeing if they have an
opportunity for that person so if you
want to find like-minded people you can
actually find them on LinkedIn ie other
students who are interested in a similar
career to you so you'll have had
professionals in a certain industry
LinkedIn will back that as well and you
can actually message so on and LinkedIn
and ask them a question about something
particular let's just say that you want
to learn more about a certain role in a
certain industry let's just say it's
tech related and you can set up a
message and they can give you really
good information the worst case scenario
would be that that person ignores you
but you've got nothing to lose through
this so let me know if you want me to
create a separate video on how to make a
an attractive and successful LinkedIn
profile and how to prop
navigate LinkedIn I've given you the
basics that you would need to know from
now they for me to go farther just let
me know in the comment section ok moving
one number two the second thing you can
do is spend this summer building up your
experiences and this is probably the
most important point that hands down why
would you need to do this ok let's just
say that you're interested in a certain
industry whatever it is just think about
one is it something financial related is
it tech related like customer service
related law related whatever it is just
think about it all of your experiences
do not have to be related to that
industry when applying to big companies
there's usually a section on the
application form which will ask you what
skills you have and why you think those
skills would be useful in an industry or
at a firm like that about asking this
the company is merely trying to see who
is the best fit for that company
therefore in order to show the company
that you have X amount of skills you
would need to get experiences to
illustrate that on an application form
for a huge accountancy firm called PwC
my friend spent a lot of it speaking
about his part-time job at Tesco and how
it really built his team working and
communication skills even for my
application forms for commercial roof
owns I was sometimes write about my
experience and next the clothes shop and
how it truly develop my skills but in
addition to that I spent most of my
first year of university applying to
open days at the firms that I was
interested in and what happens here is
you go to a firm you network with their
employees you hear presentations of all
the firm does and what their different
departments do you get free food you
take a few pictures and you leave but
this is basically experience because
you're getting exposure in a certain
industry and then really not hard to get
on to you know open days so your
experiences can be related to the field
that you want to get into or it could be
something completely unrelated like or
retail or customer service just any
part-time job so look how would you
actually do this and build your
experiences firstly apply for a job over
the summer even if it's a part-time job
just so you can build your skills and
gain an experience so you have something
to write about when it comes to those
pesky application forms in September and
October this could literally be the
reason for why you get an internship or
a job like trust me secondly firms have
open days as I explained before so apply
to these like research when you can
apply for these open days make a note of
them and apply to them as soon as you
can okay
from work experience the third thing you
can do which is kind of related to
anyways is spend the summer developing
and doing extracurricular activities now
why would I say this like why would a
firm a top firm a top company whatever
is care about extracurricular activities
look if you go to a firm and show them
top grades and impressive CV and all of
these things they will smile at you and
I'll let you in the door however if you
haven't done things on a side big menu
you've actually finished yourself great
alone on not enough like farms or
companies when I hear what makes you a
person okay cool so how would you pursue
this and how would you do this or the
first way is if you have dead
volunteering experience in your fix
start like if the only voluntary work
you've done is something you were forced
to do in year 9 and big-man allow it
allow it and you do more stuff like go
on Instagram go to charities and social
programs drop them a DM explain how
you're interested in how you want to
build your skills and learn new things
and how you want to help them achieve
their goals and that you're willing to
join some of their projects the stuff
you'll learn there will be so important
you'll be meeting new people leaving
your comfort zone and really building
your teamwork and communication skills
so when it comes to application season
you'll have amazing things to write
about what you did the second way to
develop your extracurricular list is
through activities personally I'm not
into sports I've recently been going to
the gym and I'm not there yet can we
give you a month big man give me a month
but if you're into sports
try and find a team that you can join
even if something else like baking
debating art whatever it is just join a
team or a club you can do it in uni or
outside of uni and you're probably
thinking like wow with some magic circle
law firm or bulge bracket investment
bank or huge company in whatever
industry care about the sports or
activities that do on the side well big
man if you're listening you'll know that
I keep saying it's about what you can
put on an application form and how
you've developed your character and the
skills that you can demonstrate in
Illustrator so trust me the
extracurricular stuff will really off
and summer is the best time to get
involved in that stuff man trust me
thirdly really good point normally
people speak like this but I always come
with the original content so come on
maybe consider creating some content
I had a news page and Instagram for a
while and I always spoke about this on
an application form for an internship
but also at the interview level as well
but I did I did this news page not
because of interviews I was actually
genuinely interested about this I create
the news page way before
I even got into uni like months before
but it still benefitted me when I was at
uni and when I was applying to these big
firms trying to get work experience like
it really helped
I remember in some interviews at the
biggest law firms the interviewers who
are like senior associates and partners
would spend more time speaking about my
news page and my YouTube stuff rather
than my grades and my work experience
like it really makes you different and
it really showed my creative side so
look maybe you can create a blog and
write about something you're interested
in maybe anything technology anything
about Society race gender sport one of
your passions that you're just
interested on the side just a blog about
anything that you want to inform people
on and this point is a plug like it
could it could really really open when
it comes to application season okay
moving on the fourth thing you can do
this summer is research before I
continue you must understand that this
will be one of the most boring elements
of it but if you don't do this properly
you will not like I repeat you will not
get an internship or a job at any good
firm I know students significantly older
than me right now with great grades from
amazing universities but they can't land
an internship or some form of experience
at a firm if you get a good grade or
you're at a good university right now
studying a nice degree that you're so
proud of
do not feel entitled don't feel it look
you can spend some of this someone just
some of it doing some research which
could be the reason for why you get a
job or an internship a top company just
say you're interested in banking well
what does an investment banker do is
there a particular firm you're
interested in like what's your skill set
and why would that benefit you as a
lawyer don't be one of them guys that
submit a hundred applications to a
hundred firms and the application is
literally the same it's the same app
like all they've done has change the
name of the firm and this is why these
guys get rejected all the time like you
need to tailor your applications
properly but the tailor it you need to
research about what makes a company or
an industry different so look how can
you do this well for law there are so
many sites which should give great
information one of them is chambers
student they break down what each law
firm specializes in and what each type
of lawyer does like a real estate lawyer
or corporate lawyer a tax lawyer just
the basics of them the basics that you
would need to know there are so many
other pages just trust me research
if you started research now it will help
you so much whereas if you start
researching during application season
University may start which means you
will have less time to research and then
you overwhelm yourself and you'll cry
because you don't have time to research
and but close enough time to research
your application will be a whack big man
yeah man someone like researching over
the summer here and there it can help it
can help trust me overall I've given you
guys four solid things to do probably
more than four fish and you break it
down but I've explained to you why you
should do it and how you should pursue
this over the summer and if you're
watching this not in a summer but
another period it's still fine you can
still use these tips so thanks for
watching subscribe if you want to be
notified when I make a new video
I will be dropping more helpful content
soon share it if you want to support me
and if you fall like you will help other
people as well and I'll see you guys
soon
peace
