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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, so much sniping about summer jobs vs internships.

Yes, internships are important
And also, internships are really hard to get
The most important summer for an internship is rising senior. 
What helps you get that first internship? Any real work experience.

Both my kids did regular summer jobs for two summers, got good internships as rising seniors. DC1 now works FT for his internship company. DC2 is interning this summer.

I hire interns for my team. We never hire anyone younger than rising senior. And I never interview anyone who doesn't have a basic summer job on their resume.
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On what planet do you live on that “any summer job” makes you a strong candidate for a competitive rising senior internship? That’s basically like saying having a pulse. Every ambitious college kid has summer jobs and internships. By senior year, the resumes without serious and [b]relevant[/b] work experience are immediately discarded by recruiting software. Spare us this boomer coded old timey bulls*** that recruiters ignore all the strivers with office internships and perfectly curated resumes to hire the raw lifeguard with a firm handshake and good eye contact. :roll: [/quote]

:roll: back at you. Obviously, a summer job alone is insufficient. [b]Strong academics, research, industry-relevant projects, [/b]leadership in campus organizations, jobs on campus that are relevant to your field also build the resume. But, I'm also never hiring a kid whose only "work" experience appears to be hanging around an office where Daddy's friend got him a job. I'm in a heavy client-service team and I want to know you can show up every day reliably, deal with difficult people, and do the non-glamorous stuff. FWIW, my VP's top choice is always going to be the kid who was an RA, the ultimate dealing-with-difficult-people job.[/quote]

+1 my son got a great data science internship as a rising senior. He'd worked retail and camp counselor jobs since high school. But he'd also spent two years working with his college's data consulting team, working with a few different professors across disciplines on challenging data acquisition, cleaning, and analysis projects. He said that was what the hiring managers mainly wanted to talk about. But they were also interested in his summers that he'd been lead counselor for a group of 5-6 year old boys. He can deal with chaos and keep his cool in any situation.[/quote]

+2 It's a hard economy to get a paying job. Lifeguarding shows the kid is employable, physically healthy and has people skills.  She can supplement with other skills development during the year.  The narrow-minded people who are saying that the niece is doomed without having an "internship," aren't recognizing that some of the things labeled internship are unpaid (and may not require producing actual work the way a paid job does) or involve unskilled drudge work.   It's the quality of the job and the performance of the student that matters--not that they ticked the box at something called "internship." [/quote]

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