10 Tricks To Get An Internship
Landing an internship is not as easy as everyone makes it out to be, the trick lies in how hard you trying to get it. An internship is a stepping stone for everyone who is new into the working environment more especially university or college students, which is why it is important to do it. Most young people make a lot of mistakes when searching for internships that leads them joblessness.
Here are 10 tips guaranteed to help you land an internship you’ve always aspired :
1. Write a Curriculum Vitae enlisting all your previous work experiences, qualifications you have and what is it you can offer the company. Don’t dwell more on what you have done, companies are looking for people who are going to be productive, smart and hardworking. The best tool is to market yourself in you C.V.
2. Use resources from the university or college you attending to search for internships.
3. Attend Seminars or fairs that are held in your city that you will be able to network with a different crowd and get more information about the internship you wish to do.
4. Use professional organisations and associations for the field you plan to have an internship on and follow them online also call from time to time to ask for internship openings.
5.Use specialized websites, the ones that are designed to offer people internships and advertise them daily, bear in mind that some internship website are there to scam people.
6.Create your own internship, this may seem absurd when you think about it about but any ambitious and goal-driven person know that if opportunities don’t come they create one for themselves. Call up the company you wish to intern for and propose the idea of an internship. Dress appropriately and pitch to them. They may be too busy for you, be at their doors at all times and show them just how desperate you are to have them hear you out and make best of that presentation.
7. Make sure you ace an interview, be confident and convince them that you the person more than fit to work for them.
8.Have a portfolio of all that you have done in the past at your previous work places or any school assignment that you aced that should increases your chances of landing an internship.
9. Go above and beyond, don’t limit yourself, an internship is training programme so be flexible and take whatever opportunity that comes your way, apply for any internship you qualify for.
10. Keep a positive attitude, don’t be discouraged by the number of people who applied for the same internship or by being turned down, the mistake you can ever do is think that after college or varsity it will be as easy as ABC to land an internship. There’s a lot of competition out there, you need to strive to be different.
