Monday – the most productive day of the week! Here are some links to go along with your second cup of coffee:

• Just starting your summer internship? How to survive!
• Why is getting a college education so important? The value of a higher education.
• In honor of Father’s Day, take your father’s advice about work.

Every week, we’ll feature new students who Just Got Hired by using Internships.com. They’ll share some fun facts about themselves and be featured on the Internships.com student homepage. Congratulations!

Intern Emily Lundberg

Hired at App to Succeed

Emily is a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High School.

What attracted you to this particular internship?
I am one of one of the writers of App to Succeed’s personal finance education program. As a high school student I am thrilled to be writing a program whose target audience will be 16 to 19 year-olds.

Tell us about what you want to gain from your internship?
I love how this internship not only gives me professional writing experience but by writing the content for the the program, I, myself, am becoming an expert in personal finance and I know the skills I am learning will greatly impact all my financial decisions in the future.

How did Internships.com help you land your internship at App to Succeed?
I love how internships.com has such a large database of virtual internships that are otherwise rather difficult to find. There are so many opportunities and I was amazed at how quickly I was able to find an internship in a field that I am passionate about. Also, this particular internship is for a start up company whose website is still in development so there is no way I would have been able to find it without internships.com.

Thank you Tunisia for sharing your success story!

Want to be the next intern to be featured? Start searching, and click the red “Just Got Hired” button when you log in to your Internships.com account!

Every week, we’ll feature new students who Just Got Hired by using Internships.com. They’ll share some fun facts about themselves and be featured on the Internships.com student homepage. Congratulations!

Intern Tenesa Ellis

Hired at What’s For Work?

Tenesa is a student at California State East Bay, majoring in Communications.

What attracted you to this particular internship?
Having just switched my major seven months ago from English to Communications, in order to gain new skills to be more competitive in the job market, I realized how important it is to intern.   This is how I discovered internships.com, and ultimately What’s for Work?  What is so unique about What’s for Work? is that is a female centered online community that helps women with job hunting skills and techniques.  The online community has a multitude of different features, such as an  interactive interview skills builder, resume builder and online forums to connect with like minded fellow users to share techniques, tips, tricks and interact with various experts across diverse fields.

Tell us about what you want to gain from your internship?
At What’s for Work?, I am a marketing and public relations intern responsible for helping market the online community .  This internship will prove invaluable to me because I work under a CMO that has a lot of experience and knowledge in the recruiting industry.  The internship will help me learn how to effectively market across diverse industry channels.   Most importantly, I have learned how to market myself  through utilizing statistical measurable results, showing not telling what my accomplishments have been professionally to future employers.

How did Internships.com help you land your internship at What’s For Work?Internships.com allowed me to do an extensive search, with options such as virtual, geographic location, and industry.  This helped to cut down having to go through unnecessary search results.  I appreciated that.

Thank you Tenesa for sharing your success story!

Want to be the next intern to be featured? Start searching, and click the red “Just Got Hired” button when you log in to your Internships.com account!

Rebekah Lee and Elena Russo are interns at the boutique marketing and consulting firm BDBG Marketing in New York City. Both landed their BDBG internships on Internships.com and are currently working on a big event – an NYC Intern Mixer!

Interns Rebekah (Left) and Elena (Right)

Rebekah is an upcoming senior at Brandeis University studying Business and Film, Television, and Interactive Media. Elena is  an upcoming junior at Boston University, majoring in Advertising at the College of Communication and minoring in Business in the School of Management.

Tell us about your internship with BDBG Marketing.
Rebekah Lee: BDBG Marketing has been challenging us with tasks and projects that interns could focus on and expand our knowledge and skills about the event marketing field.
Elena Russo: Although I have only been interning at BDBG Marketing for two weeks, I feel my position is serves as a great transition into the often daunting workforce.  I love being exposed to all facets of the communications world with my day-to-day duties including marketing, PR, and event planning, and I highly enjoy my office environment and the people I work with.

How did Internships.com help you land your internship at BDBG Marketing?
Rebekah Lee: Internships.com helped me find an internship that most interest me, given that I wanted to stay in NYC. It is my final summer before I finalize my job career paths after graduation and I am glad that Internships.com gave me a chance to try out a new field of marketing.
Elena Russo: While Boston definitely is a thriving city for the communications industry, I am a born and bred New Yorker, and knew I wanted to finally take advantage of my surrounding neighborhood.  I used Internships.com to apply to positions close to home within my field of study and have only found success from the service. I am so happy that I was able to get the position as Marketing Intern at BDBG Marketing, and can only attribute this  to Internships.com.

BDBG Marketing is hosting an annual New York City summer internship mixer!

Rebekah and Elena have been hard at work to make this a fun and successful event. The event is at Rosewood (5th Ave and 19th Street) on June 21st, 2013 starting at 10:00 pm.  They want interns to know you can have fun and network with other people just like you while working in the city over the summer!  It is an 18+ event (21+ to drink).

Check out the Facebook event page for more details, or purchase tickets here.

Ticket Price: $10 pre-sale and $20 at the door.

Internships.com Discount: Pay $8 instead of $10. Use promo code: 1NT3RNSHIPS8

Thank you Rebekah and Elena for sharing your success stories, and for putting on a fun event!

Every day, our intern Stephanie gets a sneak peek at all of the new internships being posted daily on Internships.com. Each week she’ll choose a theme and highlight a few of the new internships she thinks are cool/useful/interesting.

By Stephanie Varsha

Yoga is beneficial to everyone! Yoga unites the mind, body, and soul. For all of you yogis out there, we have many  internships with yoga studios available for you! These yoga studios offer all kinds of internships involving graphic design, marketing, and social media. Free your mind and bod,y and get started with one of these yoga internships.

Editorial and Marketing Intern for Yoga Website/Startup
YogaDork in NY, New York
YogaDork is a start-up fun yoga website looking to expand. They are seeking an intern who will help the company launch two new website projects.  Apply now!

Graphics and Marketing Intern
Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. in San Francisco, CA
This internationally known yoga institute is looking for an intern to help design marketing programs. This hands-on opportunity will help build the intern’s portfolio. Apply now!

Social Media and Internet Marketing Virtual Intern with Unwined Yoga, Inc.
The Miller Group in Boston, MA
Unwined Yoga is a non-profit organization committed to providing relaxing yoga and extending the individuals involvement with philanthropies. They are looking for a virtual intern who wants to lean about the designs and marketing strategies of a small non-profit business . Apply now!

Marketing Intern for Yoga Studio
Conscious Movement Yoga in Saint Augustine, FL
This yoga studio is seeking a creative marketing intern who will help promote the company. The intern will also receive unlimited yoga classes for free! Apply now!

Yoga Studio Intern
Blue Honey Yoga in Austin, TX
This brand new, donation based yoga studio is looking for an intern wants to learn about the operations of a yoga studio. The intern will greet potential customers, handle money, and answer questions about the studio’s classes and schedule. The intern will be compensated with free yoga instruction.  Apply now!

Search through more yoga internships here. What type of internships do you want us to highlight next week? Let us know in the comments below.

70% of students are willing to work in a virtual / online environment

Internships.com recently conducted a student survey with Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm, to find out how students are studying and learning. The results reveal the beginning of a big shift to virtual and online learning.

Only half of students believe they need to attend class in physical setting in order to gain an education or learn. Additionally, 53% of students surveyed believe that online colleges are reputable –  there is clearly an appetite for online learning.

The benefits of online learning are obvious: flexibility and cost of higher education online learning is more appealing than the traditional model. But students are looking for virtual alternatives in their professional lives as well. 70% of students are willing to work in a virtual environment. Internships.com CEO Robin D. Richards explains further:

“As new modes of online higher education develop and students use technology in greater and greater numbers within and for their academic curriculum, it’s clear that the desire for relevant 21stcentury jobs and career experiences go hand-in-hand. To ensure the ROI of college long term – whether learning in offline or online settings, experiential education – specifically through internships and mentoring, is a must for the next generation student.”

Employers on Internships.com are on track with students on this, as more employers are posting virtual internships this year. However, there is still a lot of potential for online education in both higher education and careers – about 75% of students still have the perception that it’s easier to learn in a traditional setting versus an online setting.

Click here to read the full survey results.

Every week, we’ll feature new students who Just Got Hired by using Internships.com. They’ll share some fun facts about themselves and be featured on the Internships.com student homepage. Congratulations!

Intern Kaitlyn Donnelly

Hired at United Public Safety

Tunisia is a student at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA, majoring in accounting and finance.

Tell us a little bit about yourself outside of your internship.
I am a sophomore honors student at Cabrini. I am a student ambassador, vice president of the accounting association, and a ENACTUS project manager.

What are you most looking forward to at your new internship?
I am excited for this internship because it is my first one.I will be able to use what I have learned in the classroom and apply it to real life. This will help me understand what I have been learning better..

How did Internships.com help you land your internship at United Public Safety?
Using internships.com was so easy! I uploaded my resumes and searched for jobs around my area. It made it extremely easy to apply and when I went to my interview, they already had a copy of my resume from the website.

Thank you Tunisia for sharing your success story!

Want to be the next intern to be featured? Start searching, and click the red “Just Got Hired” button when you log in to your Internships.com account!

Every week, we’ll feature new students who Just Got Hired by using Internships.com. They’ll share some fun facts about themselves and be featured on the Internships.com student homepage. Congratulations!

Intern Cheyenne Cameron-Pruitt

Hired at Unique Treats Ice Creams

Cheyenne is a student at California State University, Chico, majoring in Communications.

Tell us about what you want to gain from your internship?
I will benefit from this internship because it has given me skills when it comes it promoting on social media, as well as shown me how to be more of a self-starter.

What are you most looking forward to at your new internship?
I am super excited for this internship, because it helped me figure out exactly what I want to do with my life, I love working to promote this growing business.

How did Internships.com help you land your internship at Unique Treats Ice Creams?Internships.com is the only reason I found this internship! When I started looking for internships I had no clue where to begin, and then I found internships.com and I had literally thousands of possibilities!

Thank you Tunisia for sharing your success story!

Want to be the next intern to be featured? Start searching, and click the red “Just Got Hired” button when you log in to your Internships.com account!

Tenesa Ellis is a third year student at Cal State East Bay. She is majoring in Communications-Media Production, and is fascinated by all things technology.  After graduation, she hopes to start a career in the internet marketing field.

By Tenesa Ellis

“Need a job? Invent it.”–Thomas Friedman. This message was passed on to me in my in one of my college classes.  For many college students who are trying to figure out what career path to take, or how to secure an entry-level position or internship, that advice may be daunting.  However, developing an entrepreneur mindset will help spur the process of researching and developing a plan to get a position that you want, or a position that you create for yourself in your desired field.

Okay, so now you may have developed an idea of what career path you want to take and have an ideal position that want.  But where to start?  A good place to start is your college’s career center.  There you can find a myriad of resources, like resume writing, and other pre-employment  services.   You are now off to a good start.

The freshly made resume is still clean and sparkling, but needs a home.  Here is where a common mistake is made: applying online, where resumes seem to disappear into a black hole. Here is where being able to understand and navigate the hidden job-market becomes invaluable.  The hidden job market can be thought of as jobs that are not publicly posted and are found through non-traditional ways.

Remember the advice about developing an entrepreneur mindset?   Well, here is a chance to put that advice into practice.  One of the most important things to remember with the hidden job market is having an idea of what your strengths are, and what you want to learn.  Once you have figured that out, it is time to develop a list of companies that are aligned with and compliment your skill set.  Also try to find mentors who can give you advice and insight into the field that you want to go into.

After this, it is now time for some cold calling. Cold calling with help you expand your all-important network.   Remember, many jobs are not posted or are hidden, or some plain don’t exist in the traditional sense.  Don’t be afraid to call up a company and offer to be an intern or inquire about an entry-level position.  Think back to the advice about being clear about what your skill-set is and let the person you are talking to  know about your skills.

Also, don’t forget to set up and account on LinkedIn, or create a interactive resume blog to highlight your talent and/or skill set or something that serves as a medium that showcases who you are as a professional and/or who you hope to become. Also, don’t forget to establish rapport with the connections that you have made.  Don’t be shy about calling a company back where you have made an inquiry about, say, in the Fall, but now it is Spring.   They may have openings, especially  in relation to internships.

By following these tried and true methods, you just may find that your formerly hidden job market now comes into plain view.

Some of this advice I have learned through college, through trial and error and most importantly through my current internship at What’s for Work?, which has helped me to understand the importance of being able to effectively navigate the hidden job market.  Also, web sites such as Internships.com allow for  custom searches, which can act as a springboard for other positions that may not be advertised but found through research and networking.

The future of employment is pointing in the direction of entrepreneurship.   Be the entrepreneur!

Every day, our intern Stephanie gets a sneak peek at all of the new internships being posted daily on Internships.com. Each week she’ll choose a theme and highlight a few of the new internships she thinks are cool/useful/interesting.

By Stephanie Varsha

Who doesn’t like food and beverages? Everybody loves eating and drinking! If you are a food junkie, these internships are made just for you! Whether you are a chef, like food products, or just enjoy eating, Internships.com has the position for you. Take a look at these internships, where you can get ready to explore your taste buds and surround yourself with delicious food and drinks!

Cook–Entry Level (Intern)
Hyatt in Boston, MA
Hyatt is a hotel known for having caring and attentive associates.  The Hyatt is seeking an intern who has basic culinary skills as well as good communication skills. Apply now!

Food Service Cook/Prep
King of Foods Inc. in Davie, FL
King of Foods, inc. is a food service corporation that provides daily hot meals for children at institutions. Apply now!

Information Technology Internship
Bonert’s  Foods in Santa Ana, CA
Bonert’s Foods is a big manufacturing organization that supplies all major retail chains in the United States. They are looking for an intern to work on technology related tasks. Apply now!

Food & Beverage Intern – Holiday Inn Lake Buena Vista
IHG in Orlando, FL
Recently, the Holiday Inn opened in Orlando at Walt Disney World. IHG is looking for an Intern interested in operating and managing a hospitality operation. Apply now!

Field Marketing/Product Sampling Intern
ROAR Beverages LLC in Huntington, NY
ROAR is a coconut-water based sports drink. They are looking for an intern who is youthful and energetic, and wants to gain insight into the most important parts of a start-up business. The intern will be expected to conduct sampling events and promote the product .  Apply now!

Search through more food and beverage internships here. What type of internships do you want us to highlight next week? Let us know in the comments below.