summer options

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<p>no internships worked out for me this summer...and looks like summer courses at cornell will be too expensive...</p>

<p>my only options are go home to texas for the summer and enjoy time with family...or </p>

<p>find a job here in ithaca for the summer (my lease is 12 months so i have a place already) and not visit home...</p>

<p>how crucial is it to have a meaningful summer experience? will a full time job here at cornell during the summer help me? or will spending time at home (relaxing) be a better deal? </p>

<p>i guess what i'm trying to ask...is what would you do? i will be going into my senior year...</p>

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<p>not interested in ibanking kthxplz</p>

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<p>I would stay in Ithaca. There are definitely summer jobs to be had on campus and off (e.g. Student Agencies), and then I would see if I can’t do some research with a professor on the side.</p>

<p>That said, this is pretty late in the game to be thinking about it. So start approaching professors ASAP.</p>

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<p>I also vote for that.</p>

<p>Many firms will be more forgiving about students not having “meaningful” summer internship this year.</p>

<p>At the same time, you could turn any job into something meaningful on your resume. I was working with a Cornell student on his resume. He listed a part time job as a clerk at a local Ithaca store. In speaking with him, he was using his marketing class skill to help the owner market the store’s products to new incoming students. He also designed a spreadsheet/database for the owner to track his inventory and his profit margin. All of that was missing in his resume.</p>

<p>He had a TA job with a business school professor. He just briefly described his job as gathering data for the professor’s research. But in fact, he was contacting many people on the professor’s behalf around the world, and trying out different softwares to handle huge amount data necessary for the data. We added all of that to his resume.</p>

<p>Most Cornell students could turn any job into more than just a job, even if it’s the most menial job. Try to use what you have learned in school to see how you could apply to a real job. The student I mentioned above could have just done what’s required at his job, but he tried to apply what he learned in his marketing class and database class to his minimum wage job. He actually landed a job a few weeks ago in an area he never thought he would get into, and the salary is a lot more than the jobs he was interviewing for earlier.</p>

<p>My daughter didn’t get a paid finance internship this summer. But she was able to get a short 3 weeks unpaid to get it on her resume. On the paying side, she has a full time working from home web design job. She will also do a lot of tutoring for our local HS students between May-June to help them with finals. She has quite a reputation around our town and her going rate is $50/hr. Again, none of those jobs are finance related, but it shouldn’t that difficult to make them sound “meaningful.”</p>

<p>This is one year you will need to be creative.</p>

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<p>It’s nice to live in wealthy areas.</p>

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<p>Uh oh, this worries me for getting an internship as a Cornellian! :p</p>

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<p>Chronicfuture… do not worry about getting an internship. This year is the worst in a very long time for finding jobs, especially as a paid summer intern. Most juniors going into senior year are struggling to find positions, where in previous years it was not nearly as hard. </p>

<p>Resurgam… What are you interested in? That is very important to know for figuring out how to approach the job search. This year it is not as crucial and companies will be more forgiving, but it will really really help you in the fall for full time recruiting if you do something that isnt just a lawn service/waiting table job. I would not give up now, a and definitely find something either at cornell or home. I would start emailing professors at Cornell, or at a good university near where you live in Texas and try to do research. I think I remember you saying you are in ILR, so look through the faculty at ILR, Johnson, Hotel, or AEM and find someone who’s biography/research area sounds interesting to you. After my freshman summer I had success after emailing 4-5 professors at a med school in my home town. I read a few of their papers and would mention in my email "I have read the following paper and am intrigued by this… (insert intelligent thing that interests you and shows you understand what it is). Generally they are flattered that you have read their work, and may even refer you to someone else who may be looking for interns. </p>

<p>Another thing to do is if you are interested in business, see if there are any big companies (Fortune 1000), near your town. Ask family friends, email and cold call the HR at a local Fortune ranked company and ask if they were looking for interns. If you want to go into business, I suggest this over research. Be flexible as to where you are placed. Corporate development and business development groups are the most valuable in my opinion because they are dealing with corporate strategy (marketing, m&a, etc) vs treasury which does accounting, general finance.</p>

<p>You can do part time unpaid and perhaps get a waiter job etc, or they may even offer to pay you. </p>

<p>If you are creative and persistent you will find something. </p>

<p>For the fall, be aware that full time recruiting (seniors only) through Cornell begins in late august through early Nov. Be sure to check the website and get your resume together before the end of the summer. </p>

<p>As a general note for others who are not going into senior year, be proactive and start looking for internships in november/december of soph year (or junior year if you are a sophomore) and be creative talking to family friends, cold calling companies, looking in alumni directories, or speaking to professors. Many fresh/soph dont look for internships, but you don’t have to be a waiter after your freshman summer. if you do research or something more meaningful it will just help you down the road. If you show interest and are persistent it will pay off. Intern recruiting for juniors begins in January, so have your resume together, and dont just rely on cornell recruiting websites.</p>

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<p>I said it’s HER going rate, not the area’s going rate.:slight_smile: </p>

<p>She takes tutoring very seriously. She does a lot of preppy before her one hour tutor. She’ll meet with student’s teacher sometimes to see where the student needs help. Like many teachers, it’s the prep work before hand that makes one hour worth while. Sometimes she doesn’t even teach an actual subject, she’ll spend more time to help the student organize notes and how to do time management.</p>

<p>I have resumes from Columbia, NYU, as well as from other top schools. Everyone is having problem getting a job this year.</p>

<p>Call up some Cornell alums - like CR2005, see if he could get you a job.</p>

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<p>Likely not until Resurgam starts writing in complete sentences with proper grammar.</p>

<p>But, seriously, my department unfortunately doesn’t see a <em>need</em> for interns. (The management in my department is pretty bad. Ivy, Chicago, and pretty good LAC kids work in the department, but aren’t in charge.) </p>

<p>And even so, the last Cornellian I interviewed disappointed me in so many ways. The kid was in Quill & Dagger and had a decent GPA, but couldn’t even tell me what a dummy variable is or what his paper topic was on for a class I know he had to write a term paper for.</p>

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<p>Now you are scaring me. I am taking a few Cornell students this summer. If they turn out bad, I am going with Colgate next year. Maybe my alma mater has better/smarter students.</p>

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<p>I’m certain you will be fine. This kid was a bit special.</p>

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<p>what work are you in Cayuga? i apologize for writing **** poorly but i guess i am not used to such internet formalities…</p>

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<p>I prefer not to say. I currently work for a large corporation doing a lot of analytical work, though. And in my previous life I worked for the Federal government. My career has definitely been shaped a lot by my health.</p>

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<p>As I’ve mentioned before, it might not be a bad idea to start concerning yourself over such things. You never know where potential employers or connections are lurking. You should always be putting your best foot forward.</p>

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<p>Your health? I’m sorry to hear that. </p>

<p>I’m actually not interested in working for corporate, business or even government/ngo and am steering towards education at the high school or community college level (locally).</p>

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<p>Yeah. A weird autoimmune disease. How do you think I have had all of this time to post to this forum? But I started new therapy a couple of months ago, so hopefully things are looking up.</p>

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<p>That’s great. Unfortunately there isn’t much summer employment in this sector. You should talk to Ron Ehrenberg if you are interested in a project looking at community college education.</p>

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<p>There is also the ICCD that you should look into.</p>

<p>[Institute</a> for Community College Development, home](<a href=“http://www.iccd.cornell.edu/iccd/index.html]Institute”>http://www.iccd.cornell.edu/iccd/index.html)</p>

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<p>If you are looking to be a teacher you could consider being a camp counselor this summer, working with developmentally challenged children, tutoring on campus, becoming a TA next year. If you are not a TA yet for a class next year, you might be able to work on campus with the Cornell Summer College. I would email the contact link on the website <a href=“Precollege Studies”>Precollege Studies; and explain that you are interested in pursuing a teaching position for full time and would like to see if you can help out as a TA, etc. </p>

<p>Teach for America is a great program that my sister did out of Cornell and usually has great placement into grad school. I looked on their website and they offer internships. Here is what it said: </p>

<p>“‘I’m still an undergraduate and not graduating this year. What can I do to be involved in Teach For America?’
Teach For America offers internships, part time, term-time, and summer employment opportunities for undergraduates. In addition, Teach For America is a placement site for the Public Service Internship Program (<a href=“http://www.everettinterships.org%5B/url%5D”>www.everettinterships.org</a>). For more information, contact <a href="mailto:staffing@teachforamerica.org”>staffing@teachforamerica.org</a> or visit our current job opportunities."</p>

<p>That can be found on <a href=“http://www.teachforamerica.org/admissions/faqs/faq_applying.htm”>http://www.teachforamerica.org/admissions/faqs/faq_applying.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I would also look through the Cornell Department of Education program in CALS and see if there may be research opportunities. If you email a few professors you could find something.
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<p>I think the top on the list would be Teach For America intern > Research in Dept of Education at Cornell or at a university near your home > TA during Cornell Summer College. </p>

<p>I would also definitely look into Teach for America for a full time job as well as for internship. It is a great and well recognized program, and they would be excited to find someone who actually wants to pursue teaching rather than just use it as a two year booster to grad school. You would also probably be able to get a good teaching job after.</p>

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<p>Tutoring at the high school level for $50 an hour is high. I know people who tutor at the graduate level for $50 an hour.</p>

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<p>DON’T STOP LOOKING!! I have received two calls this week for internships with Fortune 100 companies. Keep looking on all of the job boards. I have an interview for a paid internship later this week and received a contact about an unpaid internship today. If you type “summer internship” into a major job board, almost 4000 responses come back. In my small city alone, there are 20 listings that are still current. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>Lol fudgemaster in their defense I tutor at the high school level and I charge $40-50/hr too.</p>