How do you get a first year internship?
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How do you get a first year internship?Im a first year wanting to apply for some internships, although it is a bit late, Ive seen some Im interested in.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Contrary to the above, don't go knocking unless it is a small company. Most companies that do recruit students for placement years (I assume this is like a sandwich course degree?) do so through their website. I did one myself.(Original post by GlassesFreak)
Im a first year wanting to apply for some internships, although it is a bit late, Ive seen some Im interested in.
However, How do I get my degree prediction? I got a first in my first semester results but would these be sufficient for the whole degree prediction?
Your universities careers centre or student support centre (however your uni does it) will sign off on your predicted grade if employers ask for proof. They only have your first year to base it on, so yes if you are on a first so far then that is a fair prediction.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Also if you suck enough d**k or have the balls to door knock you'll probably show you got more balls than the average grade wh*re who thinks that it entitles them to a job...(Original post by SarahY90)
Contrary to the above, don't go knocking unless it is a small company. Most companies that do recruit students for placement years (I assume this is like a sandwich course degree?) do so through their website. I did one myself.
Your universities careers centre or student support centre (however your uni does it) will sign off on your predicted grade if employers ask for proof. They only have your first year to base it on, so yes if you are on a first so far then that is a fair prediction.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Again I disagree. Perhaps in small companies, but turning up at the office of a large company doesn't really show courage, it shows a lack of professionalism. Depends where you want to go really.(Original post by ebam_uk)
Also if you suck enough d**k or have the balls to door knock you'll probably show you got more balls than the average grade wh*re who thinks that it entitles them to a job...
FYI - nobody gets a job because of their grades. You get through the paper application with your grades, but not through the interviews and various assessments. In my experience, once you're grades have ticked the education box they aren't mentioned again.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?(Original post by SarahY90)
Again I disagree. Perhaps in small companies, but turning up at the office of a large company doesn't really show courage, it shows a lack of professionalism. Depends where you want to go really.
FYI - nobody gets a job because of their grades. You get through the paper application with your grades, but not through the interviews and various assessments. In my experience, once you're grades have ticked the education box they aren't mentioned again.
Again, consider the amount of people going for the interviews/assessments, just jump the queue and go for the backdoor entry... works everytime... -
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Rep for you when it regenerates itself...(Original post by Smack)
Definitely agree with ebam. Back door entry is definitely the best form of entry. -
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?(Original post by ebam_uk)
Again, consider the amount of people going for the interviews/assessments, just jump the queue and go for the backdoor entry... works everytime...If you try to 'jump the queue' in to a large organisation, you'll never get the chance to speak to anyone who can do anything for you. You don't wander up to the likes of IBM (probably the biggest placement employer?) and just ask for a job. You follow the procedure and do the assessments. Again, if you're looking for something small then maybe, but if you're looking somewhere big then definitely disagree with this. You don't knock on the door of a 500 person office.(Original post by Smack)
Definitely agree with ebam. Back door entry is definitely the best form of entry.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?I interned in a company with a workforce of over 100,000 people, and I was based in an office of about 400, and that's quite close to what I did.(Original post by SarahY90)
If you try to 'jump the queue' in to a large organisation, you'll never get the chance to speak to anyone who can do anything for you. You don't wander up to the likes of IBM (probably the biggest placement employer?) and just ask for a job. You follow the procedure and do the assessments. Again, if you're looking for something small then maybe, but if you're looking somewhere big then definitely disagree with this. You don't knock on the door of a 500 person office.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?OK well in my opinion you don't, but if you're saying it worked for you then fair enough. I went to Aston University where every single business student does a placement year as part of their degree course, and I've given my recommendation based on myself and my group of friends (the ones which got in to respectable companies IMO). Same goes for graduate positions. OP's choice what to take from this, mixed opinions is probably good, can always try both?(Original post by Smack)
I interned in a company with a workforce of over 100,000 people, and I was based in an office of about 400, and that's quite close to what I did.
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?But you've been saying not to try both, though.(Original post by SarahY90)
OK well in my opinion you don't, but if you're saying it worked for you then fair enough. I went to Aston University where every single business student does a placement year as part of their degree course, and I've given my recommendation based on myself and my group of friends (the ones which got in to respectable companies IMO). Same goes for graduate positions. OP's choice what to take from this, mixed opinions is probably good, can always try both?
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Different types of companies, different methods.(Original post by Smack)
But you've been saying not to try both, though.
I stand by what I said, you're not going to get a job walking up to the back door of one of the companies with established placement schemes. Within my 2nd year university flatmates people got 3rd year placements at IBM, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, Mattel and Bosch. None of those companies are taking you on without completing the assessment centres and being approved by the multiple assessors. Fact.
However, I can see how that method might work with companies which take on very few placement students and therefore don't have stringent selection procedures in place. But as a rule of thumb I would say if there is an application procedure on their website (like all the aforementioned companies) then follow it, they aren't interested in you turning up uninvited.
A fitting compromise?
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?Well I don't know anything about most of those companies but you'd be surprised just how much people are in internships and on jobs on getting in via the back door. Maybe you're right about those companies but I know quite a few people who have got in to companies and graduate jobs by trying the back door even when the front door was open i.e. an official application procedure existed on the website.(Original post by SarahY90)
Different types of companies, different methods.
I stand by what I said, you're not going to get a job walking up to the back door of one of the companies with established placement schemes. Within my 2nd year university flatmates people got 3rd year placements at IBM, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, Mattel and Bosch. None of those companies are taking you on without completing the assessment centres and being approved by the multiple assessors. Fact.
However, I can see how that method might work with companies which take on very few placement students and therefore don't have stringent selection procedures in place. But as a rule of thumb I would say if there is an application procedure on their website (like all the aforementioned companies) then follow it, they aren't interested in you turning up uninvited.
A fitting compromise?
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Re: How do you get a first year internship?I also know people who have done this.(Original post by Smack)
Well I don't know anything about most of those companies but you'd be surprised just how much people are in internships and on jobs on getting in via the back door. Maybe you're right about those companies but I know quite a few people who have got in to companies and graduate jobs by trying the back door even when the front door was open i.e. an official application procedure existed on the website.
