InvestIN Young Investment banker summer internship

I had never heard of InvestIN until now but this is my view on this scheme (and those like it).

This will have little to no bearing on your ability to get into Investment Banking.

If you would like to get into IB apply to Spring/Insight Weeks in your First Year. That will give you an idea of working in an IB is like whilst pipelining you for a well-paid internship the following year (which pipelines you for a job).

Everything these paid internships offer, you can acquire with a bit of research and hard-work (outside of the scheme), be it volunteering or participating in projects at universities.

I consider these schemes as ethically questionable, they take advantage of university students desperate to get into competitive industries. However, they offer little to no support in entering said industries.

As such, my view is to avoid it like the plague and apply to the banks if you want an internship.

FYI that is not an internship, it's a course! No bank will consider that 'work experience' in reality!