How to find a summer internship

How to find a summer internship You are not alone as nearly every student struggles to find an internship that is meaningful to their major and career plans. So what can you do? Fight like crazy to find one! That’s how everyone does it. Start by creating a network map aka a list of possibilities - Peers - ask ‘em as you never know who they know OR who their parents or other contacts know - Parent(s) - your parent(s) will be eager but may also have trepidations - tell ‘em its easy - you know I am amazing, so just have them tell all their friends, “My amazing student is seeking an internship - who should they call?” And then you call all of those referrals and ask them for referrals - Relatives & Neighbors - same as parents - School Career Center - check with your school’s career center and pursue their suggestions - School Handshake or similar - find your school's networking software and use it - School Alumni Network - schools often have alumni groups on LinkedIn, Facebook, and email - find all of these that is remotely related to what you are doing and post a brief note with your name, what you are seeking, and your contact info and, if you have it, a portfolio OK, that’s a long list! So get started, do a little bit every day, and remember you want coverage, not perfection. You should spend just a few minutes on each of these things, and you should be copying and pasting email messages and social media blurbs, not writing them from scratch each time. As to the portfolio, everyone can create a link to a Google Drive PDF . . .do that to get started, and you can improve it over time like evolution.