In all seriousness, getting an internship is key for a lot of industries now. And if you can’t be a paid internship, you should at least see if you can get college credit.
I was lucky enough to figure out how to get both credit and a shitty paycheck. Which was the ideal internship.
Absolutely. If you’re in college, an internship is ideal.
And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience…
This after they’d been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a “culture fit” check.
So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a “support tech in a Linux server environment” for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren’t calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.
In all seriousness, getting an internship is key for a lot of industries now. And if you can’t be a paid internship, you should at least see if you can get college credit.
I was lucky enough to figure out how to get both credit and a shitty paycheck. Which was the ideal internship.
Absolutely. If you’re in college, an internship is ideal.
And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience…
This after they’d been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a “culture fit” check.
So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a “support tech in a Linux server environment” for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren’t calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.