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When you’re applying for your dream internship or job, you know your resume has to be perfect so that you can stand out from the crowd. You spend hours agonizing about every little detail of your resume. You change “managed” to “led” (then back to “managed” again) in your job descriptions to give them the most oomph. You interrogate friends, career counselors, and your parents about their views on 0.5-inch margins versus 1-inch margins. All of this in the hopes of catching an employer’s eye when they look at it for the first time.
But what will really make a difference when an...
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It's one thing to score your dream internship. It's quite another thing to have the dream match the reality. During the first few days of summer, you might find that you're becoming an expert on ordering venti skim lattes instead of gaining the learning experience you had hoped for. Or maybe you were expecting a jam-packed schedule, but your boss doesn't give you enough work to keep you busy.
Before you start your internship with stars in your eyes, remember that interning is often about paying your dues. Her Campus got the 411 from two career experts about common internship issues. Here's...
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There are certainly enough questions that flood our minds come day one of our internship at “fill-in-name-of-prestigious-company-here” (the first undoubtedly being what to wear). Others might involve how much cushion time you need for your very first commute, what makeup fix-ups you should throw into your bag and whether or not you’ll make it all day in those wedges, or should you bring a pair of flats just in case? While these are important questions to ponder before we actually get to the office, several more hit us in the face when we walk through that glass door. We get thrown into an...
