(author name redacted)
February 26, 2014
Summer Internships
The
consequences of attaining an internship are starting to affect Ryan Lovett, a
sophomore Michigan State University student, and other students at the
university due to companies new work strategies.
Lovett said he is
majoring in marketing with a specialization in sales and entrepreneurship and
although he has a lot of past experience, such as working as a project manager
twice for the marketing mix club at MSU and being invited to the MSU Honor’s HONORS, STED HONOR’S College, there are
still obstacles in finding an internship.
“I found plenty of
struggles in trying to find an internship. A lot of businesses don’t take
sophomores as interns,” said Lovett. “I applied to probably over 100 jobs
online using Internships.com and even MSU’s MySpartanCareer.com.”
THIS IS PROBABLY A GOOD PLACE FOR A BETTER
NUT GRAF/NUT GRAF SEQUENCE THAT TAKES THE INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLE AND BETTER
ILLUSTRATES HOW IT’S REPRESENTATIVE OF A LARGER TREND NOT BY WHAT THE
INDIVIDUAL SAYS, BUT WHAT STATISTICS AND/OR NEUTRAL EXPERTS HAVE TO SAY.
Lovett said times
have changed with businesses and now even internships are getting harder to
acquire every year because businesses want interns who have previous work and do
not want to take a risk with someone with no experience.
Lovett said he was
one of the lucky ones and was able to attain an internship for this upcoming
summer, praising his persistence in applying online in the reason for how he
got the marketing internship at Abbott Nutrition located in Lake Forest
Illinois. LAKE FOREST, ILL., STED LAKE
FOREST ILLINOIS, PER AP STYLE
“I applied for so
many internships, but it was out of the blue that they called me and told me
that they were interested in me to set up an interview for their marketing
internship,” said Lovett. “I then had a phone interview and had to wait a
couple of days or even a week to hear back.”
HERE WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO HEAR FROM
EMPLOYERS – ESPECIALLY THE ONE THAT PICKED LOVETT – ON WHAT THEY LOOK FOR, WHY
THEY PICK WHO THEY DO, HOW COMPETITIVE IT IS, ETC.
Bill Morgan, experiential
learning and on-campus internship coordinator at Michigan State
University, said there should not be that much of a struggle of finding an
internship with the available resources given to students online and in person.
“The career
services network website WEBSITE IS
CAPITALZIED, PER AP STYLE has a ton of resources for students career HYPHEN HERE related. The experts on
campus are the ones who put it together. There will be all kinds of information
and a ton of things are just right there online that you can get at any time
day or night,” Morgan said.
One of the
resources given to students online is MySpartanCareer.com designed to help
students search and apply for on-and off-campus jobs and internships, create a
profile for themselves and upload their resume for employers to see in hopes to
find the job or internship fitting their criteria. HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS? ATTRIBUTE!
Morgan said it is
ultimately up to the students to find their own internship and advisors can
share with student’s tips and how to get there, but realistically they can do
this on their own.
“It is the really
important experiences that students need to have early and often because it is
going to help them develop and go forward in a lot of ways they can’t even
imagine,” Morgan said.
Morgan said he is
in his fourth year and one of the newer advisors ADVISERS, STED ADVISORS, PER AP STYLE in career services and since
the work world is changing constantly, time is not set aside for hiring and
training anymore making it all extra work that no one has time for.
“Businesses do not
take their time with resumes anymore. They go through the applications as fast
as they possibly can. They hope to hire as quickly as they can,” said Morgan.
“They won’t do the important extra touches like notify everyone a thank you for
their application, assume they have your application but are never going to
hear from them.”
These experiences
and feedback Morgan said he receives from students and colleagues allow him to
help students with tips for their future and even help with their resumes.
“The best strategy
is, and this is hard, that you just keep looking for work until you accept a
job. Reality is that you are not going to get those flood of calls. You
probably won’t hear from any of them for 2 months,” Morgan said. “And then out
of the blue someone will call you and hopefully you already have work. But
that’s just kind of the real world.”
Sophomore MSU
accounting student Mathew Manning found there is another way to attain an
internship other than using resources given by MSU.
“I attained my
internship at an accounting firm by connections through people that my parents
know,” Manning said.
Manning said even
though he had connections for the internship, he still went through the same
process as every other student before he went to his parents for help.
“It was difficult
to find an internship after searching not just hours but days online. There
were a lot of internships that weren’t available for sophomores, or as I like
to call them newbies in the workforce,” Manning said.
Manning said he
never used any of the resources at MSU to help in his search of an internship,
rather used other online resources like Monster.com.
Morgan said he
noticed the increase of use through other online sources and is why he has made
MySpartanCareer.com not only on MSU campus, but now locally for students.
“I’ve heard of MySpartanCareer.com, but I have
never used it,” Manning said.
Morgan said even
though students know of the resources given to help with possible job or
internship opportunities, they do not use them to their full potential.
“Not very many
students come to us. A small little group of maybe about 10 to 15 percent even
know to come to us for help so they are out looking in other places,” Morgan
said.
Morgan said he
even struggles as an advisor ADVISER,
STED ADVISOR, PER AP STYLE because it is a universal challenge to get more
students to use the resources they are provided by MSU having maybe 25 percent
of students use some piece of resources that are available to them in terms of
professional development.
“If we can
continue on finding ways to generate awareness about these resources and get
students kind of interested in using the good stuff and following the
relatively simple instructions that help them keep on moving forward, it
works,” Morgan said.
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Sources:
Ryan
Lovett, sophomore student majoring in Marketing with a specialization in Sales
and Entrepreneurship, Michigan State University
847-632-3137 lovettry@msu.edu
Bill
Morgan, Experiential Learning & On-Campus Internship Coordinator
517-884-1347 morganw6@csp.msu.edu
Mathew
Manning, sophomore student majoring in Accounting, Michigan State University
847-800-1744 manni109@msu.edu
Michigan State University My
Spartan Career
ASSIGNMENT GRADE:(grade redacted)
INSTRUCTOR COMMENTS: THIS IS A SOLID START, BUT WE NEED TO BE SURE THAT
WE GET ALL SIDES OF THE STORY. IF WE’RE WRITING ABOUT INTERNSHIPS, LET’S GET
THOSE SEEKING INTERNSHIPS, AND THOSE WHO PICK INTERNS. THE NEUTRAL EXPERT WAS A
SOLID SOURCE ANGLE, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO BETTER ESTABLISH HOW MUCH OF A LARGER
ISSUE THIS REALLY IS IN THE NUT GRAF, USING QUESTIONS REGARDING THE LARGER
TRENDS AND DATA SHOWING HOW MUCH OF A FIGHT IT IS.
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