The WetFeet Insider Guide to Getting Your Ideal Internship

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Summary: A Great Step-by-step Guide
Review: Everyone will tell you how important it is to get an internship to jumpstart your career, but most resources give little more than a few general tips that could be applied to any job searching situation. Especially if you have a specific career in mind, finding the right internship, not just any internship, is crucial. This guide told me everything I needed to know about how to find or create the internship that most suited my future career goals, and how to turn that internship into a full-time job offer. It was all laid out in a step-by-step manual style, that broke down this seemingly formidable task into manageable chunks. I really appreciated the cold-calling tips and script suggestions, as cold-calling has always been a particular weakness of mine. I recommend this to all my fellow students who might be spinning their wheels trying to find the right internship.

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Summary: Students: You Need to Read This Guide!
Review: I bought this guide for my little brother, but after taking a look at it myself, felt prompted to recommend it to others. It was filled with great information, from two very good authorities--an MBA professor and a career counselor. I wish I had found a guide like this when I was still in school! The career planning advice is indispensible and the scripts for cold-calling and networking have proved to be really effective for my brother. It's harder than ever for new graduates to get good jobs after school and internships are becoming important tools for taking definitive steps towards a real career, rather than just another job. I strongly encourage all students to take a look at this guide!

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Summary: Getting my own internship
Review: This guide has things like sample cold-calling scripts and questions to ask to break into a company you'd like to intern for. Exactly the stuff I need now that I'm looking at making a career change, and internships look to be the best route towards making that change. I like that this guide lays out a bunch of different options that are less formal than the internships set up at big companies. Of course, I'll still try for those formal programs, but I'm also going to give the informal route a go and see how that pans out.