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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real internships require networking, career fairs, cover letters and resume, certain GPA, certain skill set, interview prep, letters of recommendation, references, rounds of interviewing, facing rejection. If you get an offer, you have to find a place to live, plan all the logistics, get outside your comfort zone.

The same hometown lazy gig summer after summer requires nothing besides showing up in a bathing suit. This girl is going to be a university upperclassman with no skills and zero real world experience.[/quote]

Oh please. So many internships are family and friend connections and the parents throw money at any roadblock. Believe it or not you actually have to be qualified to be a lifeguard. There are zero places that will hire a lifeguard who hasn't interviewed, passed training to be a certified lifeguard, and at some places passed a drug test.

If the lifeguard was hired back the following summer then it is a guarantee that the person showed up on time, can get along with others, think quickly, are not afraid of the unexpected AND most importantly (and this can't be emphasized enough) stayed off their phone during their shift. In my office exactly zero interns last summer and the previous one had the ability to do these things despite attending top ranked schools. 
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This is likely fiction from one of the chip on their shoulder persons spamming this thread.

But still revealing in that they confess “top ranked school” students make up all of his or her corporate interns. And no matter how worthless PP claims they are, they have the experience on their resumes, made professional contacts and references, learned some new skills, can narrow their professional path and city they want to begin a career in, and they are the pipeline FT job offers.

Nobody in PP’s human resources dept is frantically hunting down summer lifeguards, nannies, and golf cart girls who’ve never left their hometown.[/quote]

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