{"id":295,"date":"2007-01-21T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T21:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/01\/21\/snag-a-cool-internship\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:53:37","slug":"snag-a-cool-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/01\/21\/snag-a-cool-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Snag a Cool Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of wasting away your summer vacations, why not make them work for you by getting an internship?\u00a0 While an internship isn&#8217;t necessary to get a killer job after graduation, it can&#8217;t hurt your chances at all, in fact it&#8217;ll likely help them.\u00a0 Even if you aren&#8217;t sure of what you want to do with yourself, you can have fun exploring different options through internships.\u00c2\u00a0 They give you a window into how the field and working world works, which will better prepare you for when the time comes for you to actually start a career.\u00c2\u00a0 So here are some tips that may help you snag a cool internship and maybe, just maybe, figure out what you want to do with yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checkout your options &#8211; Check with your school&#8217;s career center; many already have a big old book of intership leads that can help you find something that fits.\u00c2\u00a0 Other places to look are online, and the <em>Princeton Review&#8217;s Internship Bible<\/em> which lists just about every internship program available.\u00c2\u00a0 Alternatively, if you have a specific company in mind, it might not hurt to check with the directly to see what they offer.<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared &#8211; some college internships are highly competitive, and others may not be.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the case, you&#8217;ll want to be prepared.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like when you apply for a job, you&#8217;ll need a resume, cover letter, and some references when applying for an internship.\u00c2\u00a0 Make sure you address your letters to the right person.\u00c2\u00a0 This may require an advance call to get the details.<\/li>\n<li>Think nationally, or even internationally!\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let geography dictate your internship choices.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interning out of state, you can often shack up at a local college that rents out dorms (cheaply) for the summer.<\/li>\n<li>Realize that internships are not all glamour and glitz.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you might have landed an intership with MTV, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ll be going to red carpet events, and interviewing Jennifer Lopez.\u00c2\u00a0 More likely than not, you&#8217;ll be the office gopher, grabbing everything from bagels and coffee in the morning to runnings errands for the boss.\u00c2\u00a0 Realize that you&#8217;re paying your dues and one day it&#8217;ll likely pay off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interships can be a great way to find out if that career you&#8217;ve always dreamed lives up to the fantasy situation in your mind.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s better to find out now that you hate sports therapy or accounting, than spend 4 to 5 years working on a degree that you might not ever use once you find out how much you hate the work.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, you&#8217;ll have lots of really cool stories to tell, and a whole lot of experience under your belt.\u00c2\u00a0 This can mean that you might be able to get better jobs, or beat out other candidates for promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of wasting away your summer vacations, why not make them work for you by getting an internship?\u00a0 While an internship isn&#8217;t necessary to get a killer job after graduation, it can&#8217;t hurt your chances at all, in fact it&#8217;ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-101","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}