Winning the Prized College Internship

College Focus! Career Success while going to college? Yes you can!

There are many career success stories on our Linked In Helping Friends Career and Business Networks! Please feel free to join us, send articles, job leads, etc. add links to your favorite college Job and Internship Resources.

Don't limit yourself to just your University Student Affairs if you are looking for an uncommon internship experience-- by all means look at the resources your local university offers and beyond!

Our Career Network was based upon the uncommon notion that we can create profound opportunity through a community of caring, sharing, and helping. Helping Friends has a number of really promising professionals looking for summer work and college internships, so the Helping Friends will gladly list great internship opportunities-- and we will invite our members to share their experiences too.

Others that have stories of success as a result of summer work or interning, please share that in our Yahoo Helping Friends Career Transformation Talk Group at: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HFCN-CareerTransformationTalk/

TIPS FOR COLLEGE INTERNS:

1. Learn how to use LinkedIn and put a headline in your profile for your internship so you can be discovered. MANY interns are achieving exceptional opportunity as a result of having a focused profile that makes it easy to recruit them for outstanding opportunities.

2. Join the HFCN Transformation Talk Group and check out the library for Networking, global opportunities, and competitive career search resources.

3. Remember your "public" profile on social networks could be a powerful ally or enemy. Yep Recruiters and hiring managers socially network too!

4. Dream big and set a stretch goal for your summer professional development! Check out the Ultimate Summer Internships article on Forbes.com; The Princeton Review article on Intern by Design...

5. If You are looking for Internship opportunity, register your resume, profile, key requirements and geographic interests at the Helping Friends Career Network, make sure to indicate your preferred job type, and we have a new category to support our college intern job seekers.. Select "College Intern" positions to be considered for internship opportunities. Our Applicant Tracking System will help employers to identify great interns using the quality community and networking capabilities of our community.


FIRST NETWORKING ASSIGNMENT: Know any talented Marketing Majors looking for an excellent internship? This one is hot and will close fast!! Check out Job 247 in our Open Jobs! Apply online.

Dawn Mular http://linkedin.com/in/dmular
Linked In Helping Friends Business Network