The Internship Process

<p>To start off, please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area, I'm pretty new to interning but I really wanted to get started early on my career. </p>

<p>I'm an Advertising major and a sophomore at my college. I know that an internship for credit is required for my major. My question is, can I still do internships and not get credit for them but still put them on my resume? </p>

<p>What is the process of getting an internship? Do you need some sort of documentation from the place you are interning at to be able to list this internship on your resume or tell future employers that you interned here? Or do you just list it on your resume after working for a substantial time period?</p>

<p>Here's my situation: </p>

<p>I just interviewed at a new entertainment marketing group here in Orlando, FL. The interviewer told me he would like to have me on board for their advertising division and some of my responsibilities would be to sell sponsorships. After completing this internship, can I just go ahead and list it on my resume as an internship, or is there specific criteria to count what an internship is or isn't? </p>

<p>Basically is a position an internship as long as the company that you work for calls it that?</p>

<p>You have asked a lot of questions…does your school not have an undergraduate career advisor of some sort? You will be able to get all your questions answered in a much more formal environment than a forum full of strangers.</p>

<p>you can do whatever you want and put whatever you want on your resume. The internship you need for your major is just that: what you need for your major. Obviously you can do other things that are not required for your major and still put them on your resume.</p>

<p>you do not need documentation of any kind for your resume. However, you will probably need documentation in order to get credit from your school.</p>

<p>you can list things on your resume as soon as you start them, for example:</p>

<p>Advertising Intern, October 2011 - Present</p>

<p>then under that, put the stuff you do. When you leave the position, change “present” to the month/year that you left.</p>

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<p>You find one you want to apply to. You apply for it however the ad for it asks – for the majority of the ones I applied to, that was emailing my resume and cover letter to them. Wait for a response. In my experience, if they’re not interested, you’re not going to hear from that at all. If they’re interested in you, you get an interview (sometimes multiple interviews on different days are involved, or a phone interview, or interviews with multiple people on the same day). Get an offer (or not). Accept offer (or not). It’s pretty simple.</p>

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<p>No, you don’t need documentation to list it on your resume. You can put whatever you want on your resume.</p>

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<p>Yes, after completing it you can go ahead and list it on your resume as an internship.</p>

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<p>Yes.</p>