The whole point of coming to college is to get an education in order to get a job and be a functioning member of society. In order to have any kind of hope of landing a great job when graduating, an internship (or a few) is necessary. Internships offer unique experiences to help you gain knowledge about the field you want to work in and meet people to help you begin and further your career. The problem? We are 20-year-olds and the majority of us are not even close to being ready to enter the real world.
"Difficult" and "frightening" do not even being to describe the process of searching for an internship. So many things factor into finding and getting the perfect job. Where can I get an internship? Am I going to get paid? Is this actually going to help me with my career? It's a process that takes a while to work through and figure out.
You have to apply to a ton of jobs in hopes of hearing back from maybe a few. Your resume is your ticket into getting looked at anywhere. The experiences and leadership on that piece of paper will basically determine your future with any company or organization. If the items you list on that piece of paper match up to what that company wants, you'll land an interview, and if not, better luck with the other ten you applied for.
Interviews are like tests that you don't have a study guide for. You can do research about the company and you can know your resume like the back of your hand, but you really don't know what the company is going to ask you until you are sitting in that office trying not to sweat through your business attire. Your head is racing trying to think of the perfect answer without sounding rehearsed.
Sometimes you'll get offered the job, sometimes you won't. Then the cycle just begins all over again. There is a job out there for everyone, you just have to take the time and put in the effort to find it.
