<p>So i'm a junior environmental engineering student looking for a summer job. I must have sent out over 50 resumes and about 100 more emails checking if companies are hiring and made about 150 cold calls.</p>
<p>This has resulted in zero interviews. I know that companies don't really start looking until Feburary / March but just wanted to get this out there. ahh!</p>
<p>I sent over 50 resumes, had 1 interview, but I bombed it. Now I'm back to the drawing board, and I will have to send 15 more resumes out tomorrow. I don't think I'll ever get a job. My communication skills suck so bad that I can't even think fast enough to produce an effective answer, and I always end up saying the wrong thing.</p>
<p>Lowendnewbie, hang in there. Do you have any prior internship/work experience?</p>
<p>ya, i've done a few government internships in the past. My school pretty much only has job postings from the government but this term even the government isn't posting with us. My school has a pretty weak co-op program so I've been applying for jobs outside. This is the first time i've applied for jobs w.o. the help of co-op and its pretty darn frustrating.</p>
<p>Does your college have job fairs? If so you can sometimes get some good leads from those since you can talk to a real person (others just refer you to apply online).</p>
<p>ya...we have jobfairs but i generally don't do well in those. I mean i talk to the ppl and give my resume and cover letter but historically they don't get back to me. Also, at my school there are only a few environmental companies coming to the job fairs anyways.</p>
<p>Does your college have a career center that offers advice on resumes and cover letters, or perhaps resume writing workshops?</p>
<p>If you have any friends or family in HR they might be able to look over your resume and give some pointers.</p>
<p>How did you get the government internship? What's the process like?</p>
<p>i got my government internship through co-op. I just applied through the school, got an interview and then they offered me the job. I did have to wait a while for a security clearence. </p>
<p>Without co-op, i heard its pretty hard to get a government internship. Here in Canada we have a program called FSWEP but due to the amount of applications i heard they randomly throw out resumes. Not like key word searches (although they use that too) they actually have a computer randomly throw out resumes.</p>
<p>Wow. I think I need to join my school's internship/co-op program. But they require us to sign up for a 1 credit class for credit (pay for the credit hour, and it's like almost $1000 for OOS) and write a 7 page report answering some questions about our experience. We also need our employer to fill out an evaluation form of me, and I need to fill one out about the company. It's a lot of work but if I don't get some real experience this summer, I'm going to have to shoot myself. If I choose this option, I'd be able to see my school's entire database of employer job postings and send resumes from there. I'm just not sure if all that work is worth it.</p>
<p>definately do it. Looking at the school's coop is helpful because all those employers are a) looking for students b) will take students from your school.</p>
<p>During my applications this year i've wasted a lot of time with employers who a) were not looking for students b) were looking but not from my school</p>
<p>For me, my school's co-op system isn't great but still its better than nothing, its gotten me work terms in the past although i'm not relying on it this term.</p>
<p>lil_killer, take every opportunity that you can. The more experience you have, the easier it'll be in the future. Consider it an investment.</p>