Tips for Internships and Jobs

The four biggest stressors young adults face today are student loans, cost of living (post graduation), internship and job placement and AI.

No matter if you are a first year student or in your last semester here is what you need to do.

Network and leverage your connections in all aspects of your life. What does that look like? Well, if you are un underclassmen, join clubs, Greek life or if you are an athletic team, leverage those connections. Talk it up and find out if the people you surround yourself with know of people in the area you are interested in finding an internship or job.
Career Services: GO to your college’s career services office. Just go. Sign up for their email blasts. They will host lecture series, and events you will not want to miss out on. Use their services to determine your strengths and link that to potential career options. If they get to know you, and they hear of an internship opportunity, guess who they’ll message about it? YOU.
Use AI to your advantage: With the evolving use of AI in our fast paced world, your Career Services office can help you identify how you can not only use AI in your field and leverage it. So go!
Internships: Internships do not always have to look traditional. And it’s how you discuss an internship at a job interview, over where it exactly takes place. How you present yourself (just like how you did that in your college applications, matters most.)
Be Flexible: Just like your college admissions journey, your job placement journey will most likely not be linear either. But if you take the courses in college that you enjoy, present the skills you learned in your classes and apply that to what you’ll do either in an internship or job, you’ve got it.
Use your resources. Go to your college’s on-campus resources and leverage them. The more effort you put in, the more sucessful you’ll be. Grit.