SubscribeTransitioning from the life you had in high school to the totally new experience of attending college is probably causing you to feel a mixture of excitement and terror. The rules as you knew them are about to change: you are more responsible for your education than you were in high school, you [...]
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Month: February, 2012
How to Set Goals for Your Internship
As you prepare to finish your education, you may find that you have the opportunity to intern in a company or firm that is similar to, or the exact one where you’d like to work someday. Your internship is what you make of it, and can be a positive experience that sets you out [...]
5 Ways to Prepare Yourself for the Job Market After Graduation
College students nearing graduation pretty much universally fear the difficulties of entering the job market. Even those that attend schools that have a high rate of job placement may worry about their prospects. In fact, the only graduates with any security are those that are going into a family business after culmination, or [...]
How to Make Yourself Stand Out From Other Internship Applicants
If you’re thinking about applying for an internship, it’s definitely a great way to gain some experience in the area of your major (or personal professional interest) while gaining some college credit and maybe even a bit of income as well.
However, no one should assume that just because they desire an internship that one is [...]
How to Turn Your Internship Into a Full-Time Job
These days, performing well at an internship can make the difference between securing a job that will keep you afloat until the economy rebounds and ducking student loan collectors. So you should not only make every effort to get an internship; you should also treat it like the very real job opportunity it could [...]
What Is a Virtual Internship?
The concept of internships has been around for a long time. Hundreds of years ago, apprentices worked for free (or sometimes even paid to learn a trade) so that they could one day be master craftsmen in their own right and earn a living. Parents have trained sons and daughters to take over [...]
5 Characteristics of a Killer Internship
You are finally about to embark on one of the most crucial steps toward working in the field you’ve always dreamed of: becoming an intern. This is a necessary process, but it can also be terrifying and occasionally painful: interns work long hours, their employees often expect more than they can provide, [...]
Is an Unpaid Internship Just Exploitation?
For most college students, internships are seen as par for the course, a stepping stone on the way to real-world employment (as in, the kind that comes with a salary in exchange for services rendered). But the fact that companies offering internships are getting free labor may be a sticking point for some students, [...]
What Makes a Successful Intern?
You might be surprised to learn that the characteristics of a successful intern are somewhat different from those of a successful employee, but when you think about it, the two groups also harbor divergent goals, despite the fact that they may be doing virtually the same job. Whereas an employee is trying to earn [...]
How to Get Through a Terrible Internship
Whether you’re a law student or a journalist, an actor or a writer for the stage, many occupations require that you act as an intern first before you can be taken seriously in your chosen profession (and, if you’re lucky, your internship includes a stipend!). For many people, being an intern is a positive [...]