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If you want to be a businessperson after graduation, you're not alone. "Despite the recent uncertainties in the stock market, a lot of students out there are still searching for jobs in the corporate world," says Nancy Saunders, business counselor at the Office of Career Services (OCS).
"It's unrealistic for a freshman to know what they want to do," Saunders says. She says summer internships are "an opportunity to try a few different jobs, and to use these experiences to narrow your focus."
Saunders includes among the advantages of a summer internship such perks as getting a directly related industry job, making contacts and developing mentoring relationships.
Saunders counsels her students to first learn as much as they can about an industry by reading about the firms and attending their on-campus information meetings.
A good place to start looking, Saunders says, is the OCS Web page (see sidebar). In addition to general information on both summer job and full-time recruiting, the Web site offers a schedule of meetings, resume drop-off dates and interview schedules.