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...rush? Not only are there fewer internships than during the boom years of the 1990s but also the tough job market of the past several years has more qualified and experienced candidates competing. Experts agree that diving into the internship fray is almost a requirement for landing a job today. A study from water-cooler site vault.com notes that 86% of college students have completed at least one internship, 69% more than one. According to Job Outlook 2003, a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, human-resources staffing managers agree that their own internship programs are their...
...about now, on college campuses around the country, midterm anxiety is heating up. The football season is in full swing. And any advance planning will probably focus on winter-break ski trips. But savvy students are thinking long-term. Career experts concur: the time to start looking for that internship...
...INTERNET TO REFINE YOUR SEARCH Of the many websites out there that list internship programs, a few stand out: internshipprograms.com internships.com and monstertrak.com If you're interested in a specific city, try Googling your location and the word internship to see what's around. Then, suggests Peter Vogt, career coach at monstertrak.com use the Web to find each company's annual report, and read up on its business. It's also smart to go to a library to find articles that have been written about the companies you're applying...
...students who have landed jobs at the companies you're most interested in. Then call them and ask if they'll spend 15 minutes telling you how they did it. That's a much more palatable move than asking flat out if they'll recommend you for an internship, says Gary Alpert, whose company WetFeet publishes The WetFeet Insider Guide to Getting Your Ideal Internship. Of course, the goal is that they'll think you're such a go-getter, they'll volunteer to pitch...
While you won’t have to head into the Widener stacks, you still have to do research. Beyond reading the websites, “talk to people in the industry, people who had summer internships, people who are going into the industry,” says Boris Gokhfeld ’04, who got a summer internship at Merrill Lynch through OCS last year. Believe it or not, not every high-paying job is also a snug fit. As Victor Y. Amoo ’05, co-president of Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs and a recruiting...