Despite the fact that it doesn’t feel much like summer here in England, we all know that summer internship season is approaching, and approaching quickly. Around this time last year, a mild panic arose in the back of my mind about what the summer would hold for me: Will I make friends? Will I make a good impression? Will…
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A College Girl’s Guide to Professional Conferences
Hello friends – I am writing from beautiful, sunny Austin, TX today! I’m here to attend the Society of Women Engineers National Conference, and I couldn’t be more excited. Even though I’m missing class, opportunities to go to professional conferences are ones I almost never turn down. If you’ve got a professional conference coming up,…
Internship Interview Tips for College Students
So you successfully navigated your college career fair and some companies really took a fancy to you, your work ethic, and everything else that makes you awesome. So what’s next? The internship interview! I think the interview process is equal parts fantastic and stressful. Fantastic because you get to really develop a personal connection with the…
Navigate Your College Career Fair!
Okay, so you’ve targeted companies and worked on your resume game – the next step for you is to take that information and tackle your college career fair! The first time I went to my college career fair I was absolutely terrified. I heard all of these horror stories from upperclassmen and it made me…
Boost Your Professional Email Game
During a conversation with my dad about careers the other day, the conversation landed on the topic of writing a quality professional email. He emphasized the fact that writing a good email is an art, and he is definitely not wrong. There are literally tutorials and classes on this stuff – I’m not kidding! I remember…
College Resume for Internships – Tips & Tricks
The most stressful part about my internship hunt was surprisingly not the career fair or the interview. Funnily enough, it was crafting my college resume that gave me the most aggravation. As a fall semester sophomore, I was desperately searching for things to pad my resume with and scrambling to get it to a state of…
Find Your Dream Internship – How + Where to Look
Internships are key to scoring a full-time job after college – it’s a true statement, but nobody really tells you how to land one. I’ll be the first to say that this particular job hunt is a struggle – a lot of companies are looking for full-timers, or aren’t even looking to hire at all! Still, from…
My Experience as an Engineering Intern
While I’ve been in the process of moving back in to school this week and getting acclimated to dorm-life again, I have been doing quite a bit of reflecting on my summer internship. It’s kind of surreal to think that the last time I spoke about this experience on the blog I was just finishing…
The Awkward Girl’s Guide to Networking
As a self-proclaimed awkward person and a newbie in the professional world, networking is definitely not my cup of tea. Even though I do consider myself to be a people person, talking to people in order to develop connections and “build my professional brand” can feel difficult – after all, I find talking to people…
5 Internship Tips for Your First Day!
We all know what time it is – summer internship season! A chance for all of us budding young professionals to really experience what it’s like in the “real world” and put our skills to the test. Yesterday was my first day at my new internship, and it was nerve-wracking to say the least. There…
