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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeff Selingo has written extensively about internships being THE most important factor in post-graduation employment. Here is one of the CEO’s he interviewed on the topic of lifeguarding…

“You can’t spend your first couple of summers in college lifeguarding or working as a camp counselor anymore if you have a specific job in mind after graduation,” said Matt Sigelman, the CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, the company that provides real-time labor market data and has studied internship postings. “Those typical summer jobs are not going to position you for work after graduation.”[/quote] Getting an internship as a rising sophomore or junior is pretty difficult. There are fewer internships available overall and the preference is for rising seniors. Not that it's easy right now for rising seniors either.[/quote]

People on this thread are so out of touch. [b]My DC was at a T20 and sent out 150 applications for an internship two years ago and didn’t get a single offer. Finally found one through a connection. It took him 250 applications to get a single offer post-grad.[/b] It’s a great job, and he loves it, but neither DH, nor I, ever sent out that many resumes. [/quote]

Lifeguard niece made none of those efforts.[/quote]

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