<p>I have been offered a marketing internship with my local big brothers, big sisters organization. It is paid (pretty decently actually) and I feel as though I will get real world marketing experience. However, when I put an internship like this on my resume as working for a nonprofit rather than corporate, does that hinder my chances of being hired for fear of the inability to translate skills into the corporate world?</p>
<p>Nothing will hinder your chances of future employment.
Some just won’t help as much as others.</p>
<p>Worst comes to worst, you just don’t put it on your resume.</p>
<p>What are your alternatives?
If the answer is nothing, the answer should be pretty obvious.</p>
<p>Well, I just want to use this basic internship to get a more competitive one in the corporate world later.
The internship parameters are the following:
Create and implement all aspects of the marketing plan including setting up events, creating a new theme and slogan, work with city council members to report marketing information success/failure. I will also be working with several high profile marketing managers in town. One for IBM and one for an insurance company (pretty big) with their world HQ here.</p>
<p>I think I can use and translate all of these skills to the corporate world, I just want them to view it that way.</p>
<p>Also as far as “my only choice”, it is, for now, but I dont want to take on an internship that just wastes my time and doesnt help me achieve my professional goals. I dont even time to waste.</p>
<p>There are a lot of misconceptions being thrown around in this thread. Take the internship.</p>
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<p>Uh, you can make anything relevant to the corporate world. How do you think you get your foot in the door? Start at the bottom and work your way to the top.</p>
<p>My first job was when I was 14, as a camp counselor… two promotions later (one each summer) I was assistant manager of a pool. That experience helped me get my first restaurant job - also at the bottom - as a food runner, then a busser, then a server in a chain restaurant, then a server in a fine dining restaurant. That experience expanded to include cooking and management, giving more firepower to my resume. I took a job as a researcher during the school year, which honed my quantitative skills.</p>
<p>When I applied to jobs, I had the aforementioned experience, plus some leadership in campus organizations. No internships, no powerful management jobs… just waiting tables, doing research and half running a swim club. As long as you show how your experience shaped you as a person, companies should be able to see what you bring to the table. </p>
<p>An internship, even if it is not guaranteed-job-offer internship, will help you every time.</p>
<p>Can’t imagine how taking this internship can do anything but boost your resume, so it will absolutely not “waste my time.” Doesn’t matter that it’s for a non-profit. You’ll still be getting real world experience, developing skills, and making contacts.</p>
<p>not sure why you think an internship at big brothers/big sisters would be frowned upon…?</p>