The Student’s Guide to Internships
What you’ll learn
- Identify main motivations behind their internship application
- Understand how internship applications work
- Choose an approach to applications that fits their needs
- Find ways to make future applications better
- Deal with the rejection that often comes with internship applications
- Ask for feedback and process it in an effective way
This course is intended to help students who are just starting their career find an internship that works for them and apply for it more efficiently. It covers many aspects of internship application, including:
Determining your motivation for applying
Deciding on the application path that works for you
Choosing the right lab (or company) for you
Making your application stand out
Building experience when you don’t have experience to begin with
Handling rejection
Asking for (and dealing with) feedback
Navigating the internship once you’ve gotten it
The course can be completed without any prerequisites, and it is made to accompany you through most steps of the typical internship application process. It contains video lectures, as well as interviews with students and professors.
Note: more interviews are currently in production and will be added to the curriculum in the near future.
The Student’s Guide to Internships is written and taught by Tea Danilović, BSc and recorded, edited, and produced by Sergei Romashkin. Its aim is to synthesize knowledge and advice gathered through years of experience and have it organized in one place, creating a comprehensive guide for students interested in doing internships in companies and research institutions around the world. The examples provided in the lectures are mostly research-related, but the principles can be applied outside of academia as well.
Who this course is for:
- University students with little to moderate experience with internship applications who want to apply more efficiently and successfully
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