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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious about internship opportunities overall. Parents of college students—can you share your experiences? I know the entry-level job market is tough, but are companies also cutting back on paid internships or return offers? It feels like the degree-to-job pipeline is broken right now, leaving many students with little choice but to pursue graduate school or switch tracks, often toward med schools.[/quote]
My kid is a CS major at UMD. After freshman year was a research intern for a govt agency. After sophomore year, an small defense contractor. This coming summer, an intern with a large software/AI company. 
[b]Apply early (August) and often. Good luck.[/b] [/quote]

This, but also don't give up if it doesn't work out in the Fall semester. Lots of internships, especially smaller companies, are posted in Jan-March

FWIW, my kids were just talking about internships this weekend. DS, new grad, said he applied to over 150 in Fall of his junior year. Got 4 interviews and landed an internship by winter break (now works there full-time, had no connections to the company except that they tended to hire a lot from his college). DD is a junior, has applied to over 70 to date, with 3 interviews so far (2 were no, 1 still in the running), has three more interviews coming up. I expect something will work out, and if not, the place she worked the last two summers would be happy to have her back (that one is career-related; she'd just like to diversify her experience). In her field (environmental science), there were a lot more job postings starting in December. For DS (comp sci) the hiring was much more in the Fall.

Prior to junior year, both kids had career-related summer jobs (for both, personal connections helped get those) + practical experience on campus.

Also, cast a wide net. DD has been looking at a lot of environmental consulting/natural resources type jobs and we'll often see that in addition to the expected internships, they'll have something that's more for a CS or Business student (marketing, communications, data analytics, databases, etc.)[/quote]

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