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Our Making Waves career team has developed a baseline resume template, informed by conversations with hiring and HR professionals.
During your internship or job search, you may be asked to provide a potential employer with a list of references. “Reference checks” usually happen at the end of an interview process, to which employers typically refer to the references you provided to carry out a “professional background check”. It’s a way for employers to fact-check information gathered from your resume and interview answers, and gain additional context about your work performance, skills, and fit for the role.
For many young people, an internship can change their career and life trajectory. Yet, 70+% of first-generation college students are missing out on internships. Making Waves has a created a new fund to support students to say “yes” to opportunities they might otherwise have to turn down due to financial barriers. Here are some of their stories.
In hopes of helping students navigate a competitive internship market and convincing more employers to start internship programs to meet the demand, here are practical ways to make internships work for you – whether you are applying or hiring.
Here is how to evaluate the financial value of internships. Should you be thinking long-term gains or focusing on short-term perks? Let’s break it down!
The STAR method is a useful framework to provide a straightforward, impactful answers in your job and internship interviews.
What to expect and how to prepare for phone screens, individual interview (or 1:1), panel interviews, group interviews, video or recorded interviews, teleconference interviews, and technical interviews.
Internships offer hands-on experience, opportunities for mentorship, a paycheck – and some even lead to future job offers. So, how do you make the most of your limited time with this employer?
As college students and recent college graduates applying to internships and jobs, preparing for interviews is critical. This article includes ten detailed tips for acing interviews.
