Should I still do internships after getting a full-time job offer?
Students who already have a job offer worry that taking on extra internships or career events will overload their school schedule and CPA studies. They struggle to figure out whether adding more experience is worth the time or if it risks causing issues with their future employer.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Focusing entirely on studying for the CPA exam and enjoying the final year of schoolDid this help you?
- 2Attending the career events anyway just to hand out resumes and gather contact informationDid this help you?
- 3Doing part-time jobs instead of internshipsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Would it be okay to do another internship during Spring 2027?”source ↗
“Would this cause any issues with my full-time offer?”source ↗
“My question is, should I attend these two events to try and secure an internship for this fall of next spring?”source ↗
“So I was wondering if I should try and get a local internship probably through a smaller company for this fall or spring, just to boost the resume and also get experience outside of audit to see what I want to do.”source ↗
“Or is this going to be overloading with a full school schedule and studying for cpa, and since I already have a return offer with EY for the fall, how relevant is it to even get an internship after working a FT for a few years?”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 2Should I take a higher-paying job if money is going to be tight?
- 4Got another job offer after accepting one
- 2Should I get a new job or apply to grad school?
- 2Will I get a job offer after my internship?
- 10Should I take an internal job transfer for more pay?
- 13Should I quit my demanding job for a simpler, lower-paying one?