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Embrace a Pivotal Moment!
This publication focuses on internships: the short-term experiences that can have a long-term impact on your career and your life. I will show you how internships and other forms of part-time employment can be great opportunities to gain experience, improve your education and build relationships, thus enabling you to jump-start your career.
Even though internships and summer jobs might only last a few months, in the minds of most people who will interview you, these positions equate directly with work experience. As you will soon find out when you enter the work world, experience is extremely important—all kinds of experience.
If you are familiar with some of my other writings, or my book Don't Wait Until You Graduate II (released by New Horizon Press and available through CollegeRecruiter.com), you will know that I place a great emphasis on the value of volunteering. There are many possibilities that exist for volunteers within small and large organizations, as well as with start-up operations. I emphasize this so you will learn to understand that regardless of your career stage, you can start your career, even your first paying job, just by filling the needs of another person or organization. Most important, through all these processes, what is key is that you consistently act and work with integrity and you seek to benefit others and build relationships with those around you.
Although volunteer work is often more long-term in nature, the same principles and values can be applied to short-term work relationships. Read the following story of Kendra Frank, a broadcasting student at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio:
“In the competitive field of broadcasting and production, the prospect of landing a full-time job upon graduation is not really an issue,” notes Kendra Frank, who works for a major network affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. “If you're lucky, you can get a part-time job, and if it works out well, six months to a year down the road you may land a full-time position. That's why it is imperative to have internships and summer jobs, and to start on them as soon as possible.”
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