You have finally made it to Babson. You start your first semester, and before long you overhear people talking about summer internships. All of a sudden it dawns on you–it’s September and your peers are applying for internships that do not begin until May of the next year. You immediately log into Handshake and start anxiously pressing “apply” on every open position you see. Fifty applications later you ask yourself,“从今年夏天我甚至什么时候想要实习？”Don’t fret, you aren’t alone.
In my experience, business students feel an unusual amount of pressure to get an internship compared to most other majors. Business as a major is more popular now than ever before. Having to differentiate yourself from other business students has never been more important. The weight that business students place on getting an internship and the efforts by many business schools to strengthen resources that help students get internships reflect this newfound obsession with internships.这种环境鼓励学生认真考虑获得实习，但是，在某些情况下，在某些情况下，我相信它会实习似乎强制而不是强制性，让学生问“为什么我甚至首先想要实习？”有很多方法可以作为商业学生脱颖而出。获得实习只是众多之一。您可以确保您拥有成功的实习经验的唯一方法是，如果您仔细反思您希望摆脱夏季实习的内容。
所以你决定实习是适合你的。在寻找正确的实习时，不要犯错误。在实习期间搜索，don’tallow your search to be overly influenced by company reputation, pay, size, or geography.就像在寻找大学一样，根据名称，品牌，位置或大小作出决定是任意的。这些因素都不是您将在一个地方成功的准确指标。代替，allowyour search to be guided by your own interests and goals, what you specifically want to get from an internship, and what you believe to be the most valuable thing you can contribute to a workplace.
Be thoughtful, communicate your value, and above all be yourself. Speak confidently about what you have to contribute.Communicate and prove your passion and allow your search to be guided by shared values, missions, and goals.Getting an internship is difficult and the competition is fierce. Your odds of success increase drastically if you let your internship search be guided by your own interests, skills, and passions as opposed to what would superficially appear most impressive. Be honest with yourself and what you hope to get out of an internship experience. Andabove all,recognize that having or not having an internship is not likely to make or break your career.
