and find out when would be the best time to send in your application. You can also use this call as an opportunity to confirm your contact's name and address, and to find out a little more about the position for which you are applying.

3) Don't worry if you cannot list any relevant experience on your resume.

For your purpose, a resume should be one page, detailing any relevant background and/or experience. If you don't have a lot of experience, don't worry. Most summer employers don't expect it unless they specifically state otherwise.

Be sure to include all outside activities—volunteer and educational—in addition to any past employment. List your primary areas of study in school, and note any classes which may be relevant to the position for which you are applying. Identify any computer or other technical skills you may have. For instance, can you fix your own car? If so, let them know!

While it is not customary, listing three or four references is recommended by many counselors. These references can be people who may have employed you or counseled you—anyone who is older with whom you have established a relationship.

It is helpful for employers to know that others will readily vouch for your good character. And including references will make your application stand out from the rest—especially if the employer is receiving applications from students all over the country. Just be sure that the people you list as references have given you their permission to be contacted.

What If an Internship or Summer Job Is Not Meeting Your Expectations?

In most situations, what you gain from an experience is really up to you. You decide how an experience will affect you. Yes, you may feel in some internships or summer positions that an employer is not meeting his obligations to you, but you will always learn something —it just may not be what you had in mind.

For instance, a friend of mine named Craig once took an internship to get some experience with certain computer skills. That was the goal in his mind, and it may very well have been the intention of the executive who hired him to help Craig achieve this goal. However, Craig's wishes were not a concern of the territorial and controlling supervisor under whom my friend was placed.

The above is an excerpt from The Last Guide to Finding a Great Internship You'll Ever Need, which is available for sale for $17 in our bookstore or for free to those who subscriber to our free career newsletter. Students know that good experiences helps to build a good resume and that good resumes help you land interviews, yet how many of us have been shown how to interview well so that we can get hired? Written by Keith F. Luscher specifically for the job hunting students who use CollegeRecruiter.com. To get hired, you must know how to interview well. Read this book and you will. To receive a free copy, subscribe to our free career newsletter.

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