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Landing an Internship By Chris Stallman
| E-mail As a college student, I can't even begin to tell you how valuable work experience is before you start looking for your first full-time job. Far too often, college freshmen and sophomores fall into the habit of going home for the summer and resuming their old part-time jobs, making $6.00, $7.00, or $8.00/hour. But these jobs offer you little to no real-world experience that will make you more marketable to employers. That's where internships come in. These internships give students a chance to add some work experience to their resume before they graduate, while also rewarding them with either a paycheck or college credit. Sure, some interns will tell you that they spent their summer making coffee for management and filing papers all day. But if you carefully research your internship opportunities, you can land the right internship that will teach you more about the possible career you want to go into. I recommend searching for internships through websites like Rising Star Internships and through your college's career center. I wish
I could tell you that landing an internship is an easy feat.
Unfortunately, that would be a lie. Finding internships gets
progressively easier as you approach graduation, but few companies
are interested in hiring freshman and sophomore interns. Truthfully,
before landing my internship following my sophomore year in college,
I had applied for 33 positions. Of those 33 internships, I
only received an interview for one of them. To my own pleasant
surprise, it was for the internship I was most interested in.
And I ended up receiving the position, so all worked out well.
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