| ng competitive in today’s field of job | | | | partying or just being lazy will tell your employer that |
| applicants can be a challenging task for a young | | | | you are not only ready to take on the pressures of |
| college student looking to make his or her mark. The | | | | the real world, but that you have already proven you |
| number of students attending college keeps going up | | | | can handle those pressures. |
| and has significantly risen since their parents were | | | | Choosing the right college internship can be a tricky |
| young men and women. Finding resume items that | | | | task, however. There are many internships to choose |
| will raise the bar for one’s competitors has | | | | from and students often having trouble telling the |
| become an important part of preparing oneself for | | | | difference between the value of each. Many |
| the job searching process. | | | | companies choose to utilize their interns to do |
| Finding a good college internship is one way in which | | | | mundane tasks such as filing, getting coffee or |
| young college students have been preparing | | | | making copies. While many see this as a |
| themselves for the ever-important job hunt. | | | | stepping-stone to something more worthwhile, |
| Experience is invaluable when looking for a job and if | | | | college students can surely find something that will |
| an applicant can show experience while looking into | | | | give them better experience and help to hone their |
| entry-level positions, they have already taken a | | | | skills more than these tasks. A college internship |
| significant step towards being hired into the new | | | | should be engaging, enjoyable and a little challenging |
| position. The presence of a college internship on a | | | | to the student participating. Finding an internship that |
| resume will impress the job recruiter or employer | | | | allows you to take on more tasks, feel useful and |
| with the applicant’s level or responsibility and | | | | important and lets you enjoy what you are doing is |
| ambition. Many students do whatever they can to | | | | key in finding the perfect fit. Some companies allow |
| get by with the bare minimum. Many do not attend | | | | their interns to make their own smaller teams within |
| class and let their grades slip, but even those who | | | | the company and work independently, managing their |
| attend class and receive good grades but do not | | | | teams, handling money all the while gaining valuable |
| choose to participate in any extracurricular activities | | | | experience. |
| will always be a step behind those who do. | | | | Having these skills to speak about in an interview is |
| Extracurricular activities can include anything that | | | | extremely valuable when searching for a job after |
| develops one’s qualities and skills such as | | | | college. Many students find it difficult to fill the gaps |
| leadership ability, real world experience through | | | | and silences in an interview and having real life |
| internships or jobs and one’s maturity level. | | | | experience from a college internship that you can |
| As an applicant, being able to show that you took | | | | speak about during the interview will take you to a |
| initiative and made yourself get some real world | | | | new level above many of the other applicants. |
| experience while many of your peers were out | | | | |