Quintessential Careers Content Index: Interning, Internships

Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Interning, Internships

Our comprehensive Content Index enables you to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets related to interning and internship topics.

Read summaries of each piece of our content pertaining to college student internships to determine whether you'd like to click on the link and learn more. The Index leads off with the most recent content items at the top, so you know where to find the freshest and most up-to-date content; however, there are also items for which we have no publication date -- and these are located at the end of the list.

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Seven Characteristics of Sought-After Interns
By: Steven Rothberg
Published: 2011, Aug. 15
Summary: Gen Y Career Guru Steven Rothberg provides critical advice for college students regarding characteristics of sought-after interns.

15 Quick Tips For Gaining Valuable Experience In College
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2011, Aug. 15
Summary: A list of the 15 best tips for finding and gaining valuable work (and other) experience while in college.

Turning Your Internship into a Job
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2004, March 1
Summary: Taking a proactive approach is one of a number of strategies that can help you parlay an internship into a job. This article describes that and other techniques.

How to Find Your Ideal Internship
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2001, Sept. 24
Summary: How do you find your ideal internship? It's a three-step process: Determine Your Internship Goals, Prepare/Polish Your Job Search Skills, and Find/Track Down Internship Sources.

Internship Do's and Don'ts
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2001, Sept. 24
Summary: Key rules prospective interns need to understand to make the most of any and all internships.

Making the Most of Your Internship(s)
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2000, Sept. 25
Summary: For many college students, taking the headlong plunge outside the safe, secure world of college results in a rude awakening to some of the cold, cruel realities of the real-world rat race. We talked to some recent graduates to see what they wish they had known about the real world when they graduated and what advice they would impart to those about to leave the college womb.

Get That Internship and Excel in it Tutorial
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: One of the best ways for college students to not only gain valuable work experience but to also fine-tune your career aspirations is by tackling one or more internships. Employers hiring new grads want to see work experience in your career field -- and internships are the way to obtain that experience. This tutorial tells how to obtain one.

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