5 Ways to Find the Perfect Internship

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MBA students on the verge of completion of their first year are already on a lookout for the summer internship. If you have not started looking for the internship, it would be advisable to start immediately only after seriously thinking about your long-term goals. Thus, look forward to search for the internship to help you reach the goal in your mind.

The next issue is to decide if you can live with an unpaid internship MBA or you do need a paid internship. If at all, you are offered a great internship but it is without any stipend, it would make sense to ask the employers to reduce the working hours so as to support yourself with a part-time paid job.

Here are a few ways that can help you get started for your quest for the internship.

1. Start with your career services/placements office

Many companies do send their internship openings to local colleges and universities. So, it does make sense to start your search here.

2. Use LinkedIn

It is one of the best portals from where you can get a list of internships at various companies. So why not utilize the same and apply to these offered internships.

3. Broadcast your need for the internship.

There are many people around that might be ready to help. Maybe not directly but indirectly by introducing you to other people who would help you grab that internship of your choice. It is all about letting people know what you are looking for and be amazed at how help comes through unexpected quarters.

4. Check your dream company’s website for openings.

Some companies do not place ads for interns other places and believe that the most dedicated and interested folks will come looking at their website. Go there to see what you can find. Apply through the regular channel that they list, but then use your alumni network and LinkedIn network to let others at that company know that you want that internship!

5. Let you burning desire to work at a specific place reflect in your actions toward attaining it.

That organization may not have ever hired an intern or may only hire interns through employees. They might only hire interns who are unusually aggressive in pursuing an opportunity with them. Sometimes, you have to go for what you want. Send them a letter or an email. Follow up with a phone call. Find someone there you can connect with and let them know why you are a great fit and how you can contribute. Amaze them.

The key to finding a summer internship is persistence. A summer internship will not fall in your lap. You will have to go out and find it. When you do find the internship of your dreams, it will open so many doors for you that you will be happy that you worked so hard to find it.