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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years of real summer jobs helped my son get a real internship in college. The recruiter said that they rarely consider students who have zero work history. [/quote]

+1 my kids worked "regular" jobs during HS summers and first college summer. Did well with college internships.

Also, as someone who hires interns, I only really consider someone who had some experience like retail/camp counselor/food service. If you've only done "internships" since HS, I'm going to assume most of those weren't real jobs and that you just have well connected parents.[/quote]

Agree with this. We are wealthy/well connected and my kids both did internships  (like on Capitol Hill) in high school, but they also worked retail and as camp counselors to make money during college, before junior year paid internships. They learned good practical people skills in retail. For at least one kid, the retail job was a hook for getting his first post college job.[/quote]

I didn’t realize Capitol Hill had high school internships. I thought it was only college and normally through your state’s house of reps member. How did you find out info about these? [/quote]

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