Anyone know if search funds would intern a HS junior trying to gain experience
I know what you’re thinking, but I’m free this summer and see this as an opportunity to add a bullet point to my resume and gain some experience. Even if the work is menial and unpaid, am I still competing with desperate students from non-targets. Is it possible or do I need to have some sort of transferable skill. I have finance related school clubs and am a chapter president of a non-profit raising thousands of dollars across my region every month. If anyone knows anyone hiring or interested in taking me along it would be appreciated. I would be happy to simply sit in on meetings and possibly be more help in my senior year if a return is possible.
Please just go enjoy high school. The corporate world will be waiting with open arms and will be glad to add another cog to the machine. I’m sure you are very talented but you’d be adding as much value as someone using Chat GPT for menial research tasks. Meaning, you’d likely complete what someone asks but it would still require them to go through back through your work carefully
Even if you could land something, this adds nothing to your resume because no one will give any weight to a high school internship once you start college. You also have no real skills, even if unpaid you're still taking a lot of energy for someone to train you and give you work to do
The initiative is great but seriously just enjoy your free summers, you won't have them soon enough
The initiative is great, but a search fund by definition is under resourced and unless if you’re really lucky isn’t going to be actively looking for an intern. Worth trying still but, in the interim why not go search yourself for an interesting business locally that you can (hypothetically) acquire.
Research the industry, build out the hypothetical model, find out how much funding is needed then go talk to some mom pop owners under the guise of a HS research project, ask them about their business, if they would ever sell, how they think about succession, how they think about valuation, what restrains their growth, do they have competitors that they would acquire with more funding or new locations they would open, what their long term goals and plans are, if they could start over what business would they be in, what they would do differently, etc
Don’t under estimate how much easier it is to get access when you’re “just a student” and someone feels like they are helping a kid learn.
It’ll be a useful experience and you’ll gain some insight into the mindset of a seller and how to source and negotiate a deal. The initiative will be useful when you interview with any fund, search or otherwise.
This sounds like a fuckin sick idea and I know just the business to contact. Thanks a lot for the insight.
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