<p>I am currently a junior in high school and wanted to do a business related internship this summer. I tried many methods and some worked some didn't.</p>
<p>My first approach was to get names of a bunch of local companies. So a few weeks ago I sent about 40 letters out. I got 3 replies. One was yes, but for a one person company. One was maybe but the slot got filled before I called back. One was no but it was from Edward Jones. So that was pretty much a failure.</p>
<p>Then someone on this board told me to try monster.com. I'm sure all of you have heard of it. Its basically the website where you can search job opportunities and post youre resume. This is a GREAT resource and everyone should try to take advantage of it. </p>
<p>About two days ago I created my own account on Monster.com. Although I didn't recieve any inquiries directly from employers viewing my resume, I was able to contact employees. You definitely have to play around with the search a little bit. For example try internship, intern, summer internship, finance intern, etc...etc. Some backround info is that I live in CT and no where near a city. SO it made if very difficult to find opportunities relatively near me. But if i did live 20 minutes outside a semi-major city it would have made this process so much easier.</p>
<p>So I have already received two respones. Both employers want to set up interviews. One is with an advertising company which is great. And I know for sure that the advertising one is paid.. which is great! Especially because going into this I was willing to face the fact that I may not get paid.</p>
<p>SO all and all i would suggest highly to anyone to check out monster.com if you are serious about getting an internship. It will be super easy for college kids. ANd i know a lot of you want prestige and there are some top notch companies posted. Also note that some companies "require" college work or high school diploma. But if you explain that you are an ambitious student and have completed college work through the AP program I think they will give you a chance.</p>
<p>If anyone has anyother questions feel free to email me or whatever!</p>
<p>What I found is that you have to play around with a lot of different searches. It took me a while to find it but you have to keep trying different search combinations. I promise you guys I have had 2 interview offers already. Don't try to apply to the jobs that require a bachelor degree and 7+ years of experience. Look for the ones that requrie a high school diploma even some college work. You can write a cover letter that you send along with your resume. In my cover letter I discussed all the AP exams I took and how they were equivalent to college level.</p>
<p>nicole!!!
this is really helpful, but im having a little trouble with the monster.com system. after a create a resume, search agents, etc, where do i go from there? i tried to network by clicking "introduce me" on peoples' profiles, but it takes me to a ad for premium monster.com service. what should i do??</p>
<p>well i just tried searching stuff. you can't narrow the search down THAT much but you can narrow it down to location which is really imporant. i think you need to go to a tab thay says find jobs now or something like that.</p>
<p>the key to this is to try a lot of different keywords. dont just try internship or summer internship. you need to try marketing internship, pr internship, etc etc. also the search engine will give you alternative ways to ask for internships on the right hand side. make sure to check this out. </p>
<p>it may be very frustrating because a lot of the jobs do in fact require college degrees etc etc. but if you just keep trying you may find something suitable. also you could try emailing the company and explain the situation. they may accept high school interns if you seem qualifyed.</p>
<p>Walk into the offices of local companies who you'd be interested in interning with, and hand someone your resume and ask about internships, and explain why you're interested. The firm I'm interning with right now had a previous intern who did that - they didn't hire her the year she did that (as they were much smaller then and couldn't afford and didn't need an intern), but they called her in the Spring of the next year expressing their interest to have her work that summer. She interned with them for 2.5 years because of that first visit :)</p>
<p>Search on Craigslist.com for your city/state, as well. That's where I found my internship. Just avoid "campaign to save the environment", as that one will have you canvassing neighborhoods for donations and paying you on commission. You probably won't find much on the job search engines unless you specifically use MonsterTRAK. Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs all make companies pay for listings, so "straight-out-of-HS" internships wouldn't really end up there.</p>