Internship at HF advice?

Hi all,

I have really got my stuff together in the past year, turned it around infact and am on a path towards getting to where I want to be but I would like some advice if possible.

As a back story and abit of context, in my early years 16-18 I never had my head straight during grammar school so achieved poor A-Levels and then went to a very bad uni. Probably the biggest regret to date. However, after my first year of uni and a year out travelling I soon realised I am more than capable of achieving things aslong as I work my arse off... I feel like I can do/ achieve anything I want if I work hard enough. I'm in my penultimate year of uni studying Business Management and am on track for a 1st (81% avg.) with the intention of trying to break into the finance industry. I am also now the president of my universities investment society.

By networking and cold emailing I managed to secure a workday at a small brokerage firm in London that also has offices in Dubai and Monaco offering asset management services. It was a great experience and opened my eyes to the possibilities out there even with my below avg. background. Through the same process of cold calling I think I have secured a summer internship with a small hedge fund managing $350mil. However, due to coronavirus it has inevitably been put on hold.

Assuming this goes ahead I'd appreciated some suggestions/ advice on how I can make the most out of this opportunity as it really is a god send.

I really regret not making the right decisions when I was younger but now I am trying to make up for my mistakes. I understand some people on this forum may look down on people like me perhaps for not attending a top uni/ doing an official IB summer internship ect. but I thought I'd atleast put myself out there and see what people think...

Kind regards,

James

 
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make sure everything you do is double checked and you can reason your way through whatever you have put on the stuff you're presenting other analysts or your pm. If you can keep putting through good quality work without requiring a lot of overhang, your fund will like you. Know what/how the fund looks at stuff and then on the first day maybe ask some analyst/pm how he prefers you to present stuff, make it more efficient for him to view your work. Talk to other people at the fund and learn as much as you can from them. If you put in good quality work consistently your coworkers will be willing to help you out a lot

 

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