Tips to turn your Internship into a Full Time Position
Recently I had the opportunity to work with some amazing HR professionals in the West Michigan Area to put together the: 2nd Annual West Michigan Intern Olympics
This event was a huge success and received some press time that gave me a topic I wanted to post about!
(first time in 4 months…)
During our morning news coverage by Grand Rapids’ Fox 17 Morning Show I was asked, based on my experience, to give some tips on how to turn an internship into a full time job.
You can check out my news clip here
Now for the tips:
1. Turn around the economy (ok.. no that is not really a tip … but it would probably help)
Let’s try this again:
1. Make good use of social networking
- Get your name out there and brand yourself – there are so many opportunities
for this and it really does stand out.
2. Keep in contact
- Just because your internship is over doesn’t mean you should cut off all ties
with your previous employer! It is the opposite – you need to work harder to
keep yourself fresh in the minds of your supervisor and the Staffing Department.
3. Make your goals known to people at your company and your network
- If you don’t tell someone they will not know. Just because they should know doesn’t
mean they do.
4. Your internship is your interview
- If you do not put all your energy and enthusiasm into your internship then kiss that
offer letter goodbye. You cannot make up 3 months of awful in a 30 minute interview.
Love your Internship!
I would love to hear what other tips have worked for people in their internship to full time job experience!
