Intern Life and Internship Success From: The InternView

Intern Life Branding: Tips and Tricks for Creating a Captivating Cover Letter

This is a repost from The Good Intern’s blog. Read more posts here. One of the first steps in applying for an internship is composing a captivating cover letter to send to the company that will make the reader stand up from their seat and declare that they simply MUST have you as an intern. No pressure, right? While the scenario above has a pretty optimistic reaction, the point is that your cover [...]

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Intern Life After College: Staying Marketable Outside of Internships

Posted by Lauren Gillaspey · 0 Comment

Internships have always been and will always be necessary on the road to our future selves. But, what do we do when we find ourselves (as many of us may in these economic times) strapped for a job, much less an internship? So, when times get tough, we mustn’t simply twiddle our thumbs, biding our time. We must be proactive and we must stay practiced because the disappointment of not getting an internship [...]

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Intern Life Chats: Using #JobHuntChat to Answer All of Your Internship Search Questions

Posted by Stephanie Kornblum · 0 Comment

“When it comes to the job search, right and wrong is a matter of opinion. What one career expert says is true, might be incorrect if you ask another. College Job Seekers need to know this when listening to experts and applying that advice to their own job search. What #JobHuntChat provides is the world’s fastest source of job search advice, from hundreds of careerists. Job Seekers [...]

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Intern Life Motivation: Adjusting Your Mental Mindset to Push Past Present Frustration

Posted by Ivi Morales · 0 Comment

Are you unsatisfied with your unpaid internship? Bored of the same daily routine: class, internship, homework? That’s understandable. But you should cheer up. Why? Because the grueling work acts as a stepping-stone toward yours career. It’s doing what you have to do so you can eventually do what you want to do. When in doubt, think like Aristotle: “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; [...]

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Intern Life Transition: How Kimberly Lucio Went from Intern to Interactive Marketing Specialist

Posted by Lauren K. Gray · 0 Comment

For the first post for this Intern Life Transition Series, I was very honored to interview Kimberly Lucio as she is currently working her first full-time job at Walker Sands Communications as a full-time interactive marketing specialist. Kimberly has had three extremely valuable internships where she got real-world experience and learned more than what the textbooks teach. She was a public relations [...]

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Intern Life B.I.B: Internship Survival 101

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Intern Life B.I.B. is a series designed to help interns prepare to get Back In Business for the start of spring classes and internships. This week, InternView Guest Contributors will share how they get Back In Business after the holidays for a strong start in the spring. This is a repost from The Good Intern’s blog. Read more posts here. Starting a new internship can be scary on it’s [...]

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