<p>I've been to so many career fairs, networked, and followed-up, but still nothing. I just went to the one yesterday where I'm hoping I could get something useful for the summer.</p>
<p>I've had more progress and actually landed jobs by going on callisto and applying to every single posting.</p>
<p>I know (or knew) a girl who has. In all fairness, the guy who pushed for them to interview her later revealed he’d had a crush on her as of first sight. All sorts of hilarity came out of that one, but now she’s a full-time employee there despite only 2 years of being a student.*</p>
<p>*I’m fairly sure she was qualified for the position, but I’m also fairly sure they only let her demonstrate that because he pushed so hard for them to interview her.</p>
<p>^ get it 10char</p>
<p>…was I hallucinating earlier, or did 5 responses to this thread just disappear?</p>
<p>My son got a very lucrative internship in Mechanical Engineering ,like 21.50 an hour plus time and a half when he came in on Saturdays . He got it because of a strong recommendation from a professor .He worked for 5 months on jet engines ,made a lot of money and had a great time . This was in the midwest .</p>
<p>You weren’t hallucinating. I saw them as well. *** indeed.</p>
<p>Send some details Ankur! </p>
<p>Are you a freshman? sophomore? a junior? Could be you’re not “as desireable” because the companies want a certain grade level. It could be you’re looking in a very competitive field. It could also be your resume. Do you have your gpa listed and does it fulfill the criteria they want?</p>
<p>As for those mssing posts: it could be the monitors took them out because 1) they were not related to this thread or 2) they were inflamatory or too personal or 3) the poster asked to have them removed or 4)???</p>
<p>Um, I think I posted something yesterday and it disappeared even though it wasn’t offensive or irrelevant. How odd.</p>
<p>Mine got deleted tooo…? Same as Batman’s post lol</p>
<p>admin’s be rolling, they hatin, tryin to catch me ridin dirty</p>
<p>Engineering. I get called back quite often. Perhaps 20% of the people get 80% of the interviews? Got a $24/hr job last summer and now a $30/hr job lined up for this summer.</p>
<p>For these career fairs… do they want to look at your transcript? Or merely at your resume GPA?</p>
<p>I’ve gotten interviews/call backs through the fairs :)</p>
<p>They mostly look at your resume. Make sure you network AND hand in your resume to the recruiter directly. I got a callback and OCR interview as well.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten call backs and interviews through fairs but never fully pursued any of them. It’s usually smaller companies that don’t have a streamlined recruiting process that will get back to you. Bigger companies will just rely on OCR or their own format to recruit. Networking is suppose to help influence the OCR/recruiting process but I honestly can’t pinpoint the effect of networking for sure. Many times I have gotten rejected at firms I heavily networked with and interviewed for firms I never paid any attention to.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be better to follow up on the interviews for smaller companies? Start small then network your way up? Or are there other techniques to networking/internship hunting?!</p>
<p>I got my internship last summer at Jive Software through the career fair and I was only a freshman at that time.</p>
<p>I saw their booth and had a good conversation with the engineer who went to Cal, and then he introduced me to the CTO and co-founder of the company who was also there. Afterwards they asked for my resume and they called me back a couple weeks later and they asked me to take some programming test (which, at the risk of sounding show-offy, I scored in the 97th percentile on the first try [apparently you were allowed to take it more than once]) and then I had to to do two 30 minute interviews, one with the CTO and another with the VP of engineering, and they asked me CS61B style questions for forums and trees. A few weeks after that they told me I got the internship and it paid very well (I’m not sure if I should disclose the amount so I’ll leave it undisclosed) and it was a great experience!</p>
<p>So I guess my advice is know your theory and have good communication capabilities, and an overall friendly demeanor.</p>
<p>So good luck OP!</p>
<p>PS: Also my gpa was only around a 3.3 at the time so don’t feel discouraged if your GPA is low.</p>
<p>^ of course you’re allowed to disclose. so do :)</p>
<p>Wow, Diivio, you’re living my dreams. Except I want a non-engineering related internship.</p>
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<p>lol…(10chars)</p>