It’s that time of the year where students start to prepare
for next semester. Whether it’s signing up for classes, applying for graduation
or applying for an internship, these are all an important part of a student’s
college career.
The advantages of attending the University are the endless
career opportunities offered here that helps students prepare for the real
world.
Some students at the University stress how important it is
to sign up at Career Services to have access to eRecruiting, a program that
assists students in finding internships and jobs.
“It was really useful, and the time I spent doing it was
worth it; I learned a lot of professional skills that I know I will take with
me in the future,” sophomore Mai Nakazawa said, who utilized Career Services
her freshman year and obtained an internship with the New York City Law
Department.
Like eRecruiting, LinkedIn appears to be a popular
internship search engine for some students, but unfortunately it does not
produce as many positive results as some students would assume.
Craigslist is considered a popular website that many
students use and actually do acquire internships from without the University’s
Career Services.
“Craigslist is a great website, you just need to be really
proactive in the search,” senior Leann Lightbown said, who has had three
internships without the help of eRecruiting.
Other websites that are known to be efficiently helpful are
Internships.com, College.Monster.com, Idealist.org and Indeed.com according to
Degreecentral.com.
Because almost all departments offer internships-for-credit
courses, these websites can help students find their own internships that
better suit them and apply through their departments for the particular course,
since some employers prefer work for credit.
Although most students find websites useful because of the
speed of online multi-networking, other University students consider personal
connections, such as professors and faculty, proficiently convenient and
supportive as well.
“My professor always sends out list-serves to us, which I
find very helpful and useful, especially for my major which is always hard to
find internships for,” junior and biochemistry major, Neil Patel said.
“Personal connections and networking are way better than
websites,” graduate student Marina Vykhodtseva said.
The reason for college is to hopefully establish a career
that is truly of interest to us. Without experience, it is almost too hard to
tell what professions one can acquire, how one will manage them and of course
sustain them, which is where internships come in.
Not only do internships expose students to different aspects
of one’s desired profession, but they also help build resumes to help one
discover exactly what it is they long to do.
According to Forbes Magazine, Vault. Com put together
a guide of the Top 10 internships of 2011 in the U.S., “Evaluating each job
according to criteria that include pay and perks, training, mentorship and
opportunities for a real job at the end of the program.”
Top
internships of 2011 | source: Forbes magazine
The list in
alphabetical order is as follows:
1. The Boston
Consulting Group
2. Capital
Fellows Program
3. Deloitte
LLP
4. Garmin
International
5. Google 6.
J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank
7. NASA
8. Nickelodeon
Animation Studios
9.
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
10.
Smithsonian Institution
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