Anand Krishan Kumar

My internship experience at Lincoln Investment has been awesome and continues to be as I am finishing up. I learned a great deal of information about the financial industry and specifically how it relates to my field. This connection between IT and the financial industry was priceless and well worth my time. The company is looking to move most of…[Read more]

I learned a great deal of things during my internship, which I did not learn in the class room. One of the main things was working with others and communication. We had to take business communications as a requirement for the business school, but it did not give real life experience. During my internship I had to adjust to communicate with others…[Read more]

I am finding that a lot of the things I have learned in the classroom are applicable to this internship. One of the most useful things comes from an online excel course i took last semester. This course showed me the true power of excel and allowed me to manipulate a lot of data once I started my internship. On my first day at Lincoln, I was given…[Read more]

Balancing schoolwork and an internship/job can be extremely difficult to handle at times. I was taking a vigorous online course during Summer I so I found myself running home and straight to my computer once a week. Other days were spent preparing for this condensed class and keeping up with other jobs and activities. However, I have worked and…[Read more]

In this internship, I have learned that communication is extremely important for the job that I am doing. Additionally, efficiency and a complete understanding of the business are skills that are very important to establish. One skill which I did not really have before this job, but needed is being thorough. When working with financial data and…[Read more]

Working at a company like Lincoln was a completely different experience than any other company I have worked at in the past. For example, simply getting employment at this company was very different than what I experience before. Out of all the interns, I was the only one that wasn’t referred internally. Similarly, many people that work at the…[Read more]

Over this summer, I am working at Lincoln Investment Planning, a private broker-dealer which handles investments. The company is similar to Vanguard in what it does, but not as large. My position specifically is the Intern Computer Operator. Basically, this organization has an IBM system which handles everything from financial transactions…[Read more]