I’m a big proponent of making personal finance part of your career planning. By managing your money wisely (even if you barely have any as a student), you’re creating a project for yourself that you can use to demonstrate to employers how you’ll be an effective intern. When I need information on personal finance, I always look to Ramit Sethi, the founder of a website called I Will Teach You To Be Rich and the author of a book by the same name
It may be hard to imagine not needing a brick and mortar bank, but ING Direct makes it work. They have a huge ATM network, they’ll write and mail your checks for you, and they make transferring money between accounts simple. It’s the way that you’ll expect to bank in the future, but ING Direct is doing it now. ING Direct is owned by ING, the Dutch financial institution, but it seems that they act quite independently—they’re not like other banks. This is where banking is headed, so ING Direct should be the place to be if you want to work in “retail” banking. To get started, you need to check out ING Direct’s Internships page. You’ll see that in addition to their Wilmington, DE location, they also have offices in St. Cloud, MN; Los Angeles, CA; and Seattle, WA, but it seems that they’re only recruiting interns in Wilmington and St. Cloud (at least right now). There are IT Internships that offer opportunities in the following departments: IT Development, IT Project Management, IT Services, IT Application Services, IT Supplier Management, IT Architecture, Data Modeling & Database Systems, and Network Administration. There are also General Internships that don’t seem to get into more specific areas, but the focus is on leadership development. There’s no word on whether the positions are paid, but my guess is that they are. Unfortunately, ING Direct’s applicant tracking system is kind of terrible, so it makes it impossible for me to link to specific positions, but it shouldn’t be hard to find the internships and apply online.
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