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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, is your kid maxing out with the career services office and asking each professor for help?[/quote]

OP here. Yes, my kid is in the career office frequently (and did so virtually over winter break), and has asked multiple professors (including 2 for whom he does research) for help. I’d assess the career center as minimum help/competency (if DC were consulting, finance or stem focused, I think the career center would be a lot more helpful - I follow the career center and see the postings) and the professors were nice but useless (advice along the lines of: “I could extend your research into this summer,”or “check the department website for opportunities”). [b]DC has also reached out to several alums [/b]for informational interviews and has gotten polite responses but only one seems to be following through. DC is applying to orgs like think tanks, govt affairs divisions of various companies, policy type jobs, etc. Internships looking for writing / research / analysis type roles.

Meanwhile in my opinion, it would he so much better for DC as a person and future contributing member of a work organization to be spending this large chunk time (meeting with career center, scouring websites for job ops, putting together “fresh” cover letters and working up writing samples, talking to me and friends for advice, trying to set up informational interviews) focusing on their classes, their sport and extracurriculars!

Well, they will keep on keeping on and hopefully get at least an interview to boost their spirits. I like a PPs advice to focus on smaller orgs - I will suggest that DC try to start focusing efforts there since they’ve already done a large number of “bigger orgs” apps. [/quote]

My DS is also a junior and looking for an internship.  He just landed his first second interview.  He's had the most success in getting a first interview through connections with alumni.  I don't use Linkedin so I'm not exactly sure how it works, but he's told me he looks for people within the company who graduated from his college, and then he'll send them a message.  Some alum have ignored his message, but he's had a pretty good success rate on setting up "coffee chats."   Good luck.[/quote]

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