Gaining experience and making professional connections are two of the main reasons to do an internship.
Internship success can depend on your personal goals which may mean getting a job offer, excellent references, or developing relationships and connections with professionals in the field.
I just wanted to share some of this year's nominees that I've received so far:
Best Organization to Intern For:
What's your favorite? If you have a favorite internship, organization, internship site, internship abroad, or social media site to nominate, please join in the fun and nominate now.
A resume is usually a requirement in the college admissions process. Many students find this to be very challenging since they often feel that they have no real experience to include on a resume since they're still in high school.
The purpose of a resume is to document what you have accomplished so far. The ultimate goal is to work hard and grow your accomplishments so that by the time you graduate from college, you have a strong professional resume you can submit when applying for jobs once you complete your studies.
Three tips to keep in mind when writing a resume:
1. Include any coursework, internships, jobs, volunteer, extra-curricular activities, special skills you feel would be important for employers to know.
2. Organize your resume so that it's easy for employers to find the information they are looking for.
3. Ensure that your resume contains no grammatical or spelling errors.
The 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards is offering readers an opportunity to pick the best of the best of the many categories that they find to be the best products, services, and communities.
The 2012 program marks the first year for About.com's Readers' Choice Awards for Internships. I'm really excited to learn more and share what my readers select for the following categories:
Please take the opportunity to nominate your favorites. The nomination phase runs until February 15th and voting begins on February 22. Please select your favorites and the winners will be announced on March 30.
I often find myself using the same websites over and over when I'm trying to look for internships with a student. I find these sites to be my favorites since I find so many valuable internship opportunities when I search on them.
Several of these sites are excellent choices for just about any type of internship while others focus more on specific career fields or areas of interest. When beginning my search for an internship, these would be the first places I would look. You can find opportunities on these sites for summer , fall, spring, paid, nonprofit, corporate, and internships abroad.
If you are looking for a Spring or Summer internship, I suggest that you try out some of these sites. In addition, make sure you have a resume started so that once you find some opportunities to apply to you will be ready to target your resume and begin applying to as many as you find that are of interest.
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