Hi, I’m a uni student in Tokyo who’s hoping to work in Investment Banking after I graduate. I thought that I would just choose an internship through my school, but I was looking around online the other day and I found out that Apple was recruiting Finance Interns. The thing is, I don’t really have any relevant experience as I had always been planning to start interning on my Junior year. I’ve read on reddit that it’s probably a good idea to get internship experience first, but I’m not sure if it’ll be the same since this is in Japan. I saw the requirements and I kinds thought that it was a pretty low bar for Apple so I figured they’d want someone with experience. I’m even taking online courses for the related position hoping that I’ll get accepted. Should I continue and try to apply, or should I not even bother since they probably want someone with experience? For context, [these](https://jobs.apple.com/ja-jp/details/200418159/finance-internship) are the requirements. My previous work experience is pretty much limited to English teaching at an international school, and I do attend a rather well-regarded university, though I’m not sure if that’ll matter. Can anyone share their experiences if they’ve interned at Apple Japan before? Thank you!
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What type of role are you looking for ?
Front Office is highly competitive.
Operations ? (Middle, Back, IT, Audit, Compliance, etc)
Not sure whats your understanding of finance is but finance role type at a Fang tech like company and at an IB have nothing in common.
Also make sure you are highly fluent in JP, the only non JP fluent speaker I met in IB here were either in a technical position (executing flow, quant, etc) or years of xp under belt.
Can’t speak to the finance side but I think having a corporate role at Apple on your resume (even if it’s an internship) can’t be a bad thing.
It’s certainly something to differentiate you from the crowd and a talking point when you get to the stage of looking for a full-time job.