Archive for the ‘ Internships ’ Category

Fall Internships

Mindless food service industry jobs have only two redeeming qualities for a college student: nearly unlimited access to free food and a meager paycheck. To avoid smelling like a greasy steamed hot dog and getting paid not nearly enough to smile at horrid customers, please consider a fall internship. There’s a good chance you’ll make [ READ MORE ]

Summer Internship Advice

Does anyone have summer jobs any more, or do the learning opportunities, résumé-building bullet points, key letters of recommendation, and invaluable experience of the summer internship far outweigh table-waiting wages? Summer’s half over; if you’re in the midst of your own personal interning adventure, here are some beneficial words of wisdom to assist you in [ READ MORE ]

Volunteer to Gain Work Experience (Work for Free to Get a Job)

Catch-22 is safely ensconced in my top ten books list; it’s been there since I read it over a decade ago and I can’t imagine that it will ever be demoted. It’s such a perfect, perfect description of being caught in some bureaucratic, red-tape moment wherein the powers that be are unmoved by your pointing [ READ MORE ]

Intern Memo

Good News for College Interns Summer is upon us: the season of the intern. Thousands of eager college students and some overly aggressive high schoolers will flock to New York, DC, and maybe some other cities to surf the web for eight hours a day, attend some meetings, and hopefully learn a trade. Though there [ READ MORE ]

College Trends: Charging Students for Internship Placement

Competitive Advantages to Paying for Work Experience Internships have become so important for college students that many are willing to pay to get one. Gone are the days of summer jobs to help pay tuition. College students are finding that spending your summers working for free is the best way to make your college degree [ READ MORE ]

Vocation Vacations – Test Drive Your Dream Career

How To Quell the Fear-of-Change Demon Inside You I love the Seinfeld episode where Kramer traipses off to a baseball fantasy camp and George, in a moment of nostril-flaring frustration says, “Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp! People should plunk down two thousand dollars to live like him [ READ MORE ]