How to Find the Perfect Summer Internship

Catching the Big One, Now vs. Back Then

Summer internships are a perfect way to check out a company, gain great experience, make important connections in a career or industry that interests you, and perhaps do some nifty work (and possibly get paid!). Plus internships look stellar on college applications and resumes, and can get your foot in the door at the company of your dreams.

Actually finding that perfect summer internship, on the other hand, is a bit trickier.

That is, it used to be.

Let’s say you were looking for a summer marketing internship. In the old days (circa 2002), you might have begun an internship hunt with a Google search for “marketing internships” and “.” A smattering of positions would come up; some relevant, some not so much.

Next, you decide to try your luck on the jobs/internship boards online. You check out craigslist, one of the more useful sites for locating jobs. A few diamonds in the rough are bound to appear, but most positions will not be the ones you want (or are even remotely interested in). The position requires too much experience, or doesn’t pay enough, or sounds too good to be true – $8000 a week to be a telemarketer with BeRichQuik.com? Sounds fishy.

You know the type of internship you want, but you are scouring the entire internet and hoping to get lucky finding it. To use a fishing analogy, you are angling for a particular type of fish in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without a clue how to rig your line or where to fish!

Good luck!!

How do you find the perfect summer internship without spending hours on the water, casting without an aim and angling without a strategy, hoping to just get a nibble or two – but ending up with nothing more than hours and hours of wasted time, and a bad sunburn to boot?

Job fishing should not be this rough! Fortunately for internship-seekers worldwide, new job alerts and resume sites like jobs.nuAlerts, nuResume, Indeed, SimplyHired, and Jobster are the answer. These sites provide you with the rod, bait, tackle, and lure for landing that perfect job, and they will even do the fishing for you.

All you have to do is show up at the lake.

Take three minutes and try out one of the newest and most promising:

Go to http://jobs.nualerts.com/.
Click on “Get nuAlerts.”
Fill out the basic questions and select your areas of interest for a summer internship.
Join your favorite employers’ networks.

Employers will begin contacting you with exclusive internship alerts based on your interests, making a once pain-staking and time consuming process into a relaxed and enjoyable exercise.

Use job alert sites like jobs.nualerts.com to turn the game of summer internship fishing into the sport of catching.

And spend the rest of your spring lounging at the lake.

Guest Expert:

Reena Jadhav, CEO and Founder of nuAlerts, is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for game-changing, value-creating ideas. She founded jobs.nualerts.com as a way for college students and job-seekers to connect with great companies and find the employment opportunities they deserve. Prior to nuAlerts, Ms. Jadhav served as Chief Marketing Officer at Conduit, the leading platform for building communities via toolbars. Before Conduit she co-founded and served as Chief Marketing Officer at JobFlash. Reena graduated summa cum laude from Wharton Business School with a BS and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. She was recently awarded honoree San Jose Business Journal’s Women Executive of the Year in Marketing.

Kevin Adler is the Community Manager at nuAlerts. In 2009, Kevin completed his Masters of Philosophy degree in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Prior to Cambridge, Kevin attended Occidental College, where he was the Benjamin H. Culley Award recipient (outstanding graduating senior), the 2007 Student of the Year in the Politics Department, and the 2006 National Student Diplomat Essay Competition Award winner: http://tinyurl.com/nwndc7. Kevin is also the Executive Director and Founder of BetterGrads, an education nonprofit in the startup phase that seeks to transform how high school students think about and prepare for college in the United States: http://www.bettergrads.org/.

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Comments

Ashley says:
August 2, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Nowadays it's hard to find a job because of the recession. There are many got unemployed and seeking job now. As a worker, I am also a blood donor to help on my daily needs. I think this is a very big help for the students who are seeking for a part time job now or got unpaid internship and especially it is summer time which are some of us need extra income. I'm donating for 2 years now and it really helps because every donation I make up to $50/hour for blood donation. As we all know, Blood bank shortages kill tons of people all the time and it is the time to spread the word about blood donation and give blood, you will never know when YOU might need blood. This really helpful even it is just a part time job, the bottom line of this is to saved lives.
If you are thinking to be a blood donor and looking for specific blood banks and a directory of blood donation centers you can check it out here at bloodbanker dot com/banks.
Rains506 says:
August 7, 2009 at 12:28 pm
"To use a fishing analogy, you are angling for a particular type of fish in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without a clue how to rig your line or where to fish!"
…Perfect analogy I must say haha.
Just to throw it out there, another good way to research internships is to search for internship reviews. Whats the point of doing an internship if all your doing is fetching coffee and licking envelopes all day?! I've the site http://www.UltimateIntern.com to research this. It has reviews and ratings posted by past interns from a variety of big and small companies. You can find out things like daily tasks, what they liked and didn't like, how they actually got the job, compensation, and all that jazz.
Summer internships can be a ton of fun or a complete waste of summer! so, its important to make your time worth while =)