Best work to give interns?

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Feb 06,2023

Searchers: in your experience, what has been the best type of work to give interns? I started out having interns build company lists. I'm now considering shifting the focus to having them help personalize emails. (I think that's where my bottleneck is)

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searcher from Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

Agree with ^Searchfunder member‌ that direction is critical. Took me some time, but I drew out process maps, scripts, and distributed to the group. As far as work: I've given interns industry research, lead analysis and identification (going through a list of leads and determining which ones are valuable, why, and presenting to the team); some financial modeling (I hold courses). Some broker correspondence and some CIM analysis/feedback. We're on Slack so we discuss different deals and put together questions for sellers. Hold weekly meetings/lessons (called "skills sessions"). Some comp analysis. Guest speakers are great. I record all of our skills sessions and meetings and upload them to our drive.
Personalized emails is a big one for me too - I'm working with a programmer to help with that now (results TBD).

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investor from Aalto University - School of Business

We typically use interns for a number of activities, related to: industry research, outreach planning, deal sourcing, financial modeling, preparation of presentation materials to make a few.

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