you've heard this before internships are important to gain professional
experience and increase your job opportunities out of college and I'm
here to confirm this for you internships will open doors for me
internships with the Chicago Bulls Ohio State and a big-time sports agency open
doors that I didn't even dream possible so you know why internships are
important but how do you find the right opportunities and how do you get started
if you have no experience on your resume yet well in today's video I am showing
you how you can start searching for internships follow these tips and you'll
have an internship in no time I did hey there I'm Jenna Rein from theinternhustle.com
and this is Initiative Muscle Monday helping you to start each
week with an intentional step toward a successful future let's do this! that how to
start searching for internships with little to no experience let's start with
the obvious there is a Career Center on your campus and you need to be using it
if you talk to most adults who are out of college and some we're going through
the job search process at various points in their life they're gonna tell you
that they would give anything to have a free resource like a campus Career
Center a lot of adults wind up paying big money to get the help that they need
in the job search process or they're searching for recruiters to help them
out and they probably could have saved themselves a lot of time and money by
just taking the time to take advantage of their Career Center while they were
still in school and if you have little to no experience at this point your
journey a Career Center is the ultimate resource for you let's think about it
like this when companies share job or internship opportunities with your
university it's because they're looking for a young and fresh talent that they
can help teach and mold into a great employee for their company they know
that most college students don't have experience so you're not pulling the
wool over anyone's eyes when you apply for a position with their company with
no prior experience they know that you likely don't have experience and they
welcome it what are you waiting for visit your Career Center in person or
check out the Career Center's website for resources and opportunities because
most school career centers are now integrated with
platform called Handshake you've probably heard of it before but it's an
online career Network focused on connecting students and employers it is
there for you to use and it has aggregated all of these internship and
job opportunities specifically to your school and location you need to be
taking advantage of these tools while they're at your fingertips because
they're not always going to be available to you going forward the next best way
for you to find opportunities with little to no experience is to reach out
to your personal network people can't help you if they don't know what you're
looking for and everyone loves to help a college students because they remember
what it was like to once be in your shoes so let them help you
talk to people about your interests and your strengths and your top skills and
what types of opportunities interests you the most the best people to connect
with are your professors family and friends and even if they don't have a
direct opportunity for you they may know someone else who does and warm referrals
into a company can be just the ticket you need to open the door into your
first internship or just your first little bit of professional experience
like job shadowing for a day and that early bit of experience is what starts
to build your resume and open up future doors so kick off those conversations
with your network now post about what you're looking for on LinkedIn practice
your personal pitch at the family dinner table it all helps and it gets you one
step closer to what you're looking for speaking of building your resume how are
you supposed to pull together a competitive resume when you have no
experience to speak of yet it's a valid concern and something that most people
struggle with when they're first starting out I remember struggling with
it when I first started you're not alone I have a video all about how to make
your resume stand out for internships that I suggest you check out immediately
following this one I will make sure to link to that in the description below
but the most important thing that you need to remember when creating your
resume is to tailor it for each and every opportunity that you apply to your
job is to speak to how you can be what the company needs and that you're the
best person to fulfill those needs you can demonstrate this in a number of ways
through volunteer experience freelance projects Club leadership personal
experience etc a resume can be filled with much more than just traditional
professional experience that you may not have yet the key is to make the resume
stay by meeting the employer where they need
you the most and where an employer may need you most might be an opportunity or
a time of year that you haven't even considered yes summer is a popular time
for internships but not all internships take place in the summer be open to
other times of year as it may increase your chances of getting your foot in the
door with a specific company and be open to a variety of roles and
responsibilities as well remember everyone has to start somewhere there is
no shame in that and this is going to apply long into
your career as well so it's a good lesson to learn now speaking from
experience I took a job as an executive assistant to the CEO of a venture backed
tech startup company when I was young in my career and to be completely honest
with you this felt like a huge step back for me I didn't want to be someone's
executive assistant I was letting my ego get in the way but something urged me to
take this position and let me tell you it was the best career decision that I
ever made it opened up more doors and taught me more about business than I
could have ever imagined so I am urging you to keep an open mind
when you're applying for your internship opportunities I hope today's video was
helpful and that you start implementing some of these quick actions now as you
kick off your internship search leave a comment below and let me know where
you're getting stuck as you go through this process and what other videos would
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