<p>I got most of my interviews through the career service. A lot of times I apply through company websites, but i’d be lucky if they respond with a rejection letter. Most of the times they don’t even respond. It’s really hard to get an internship as a sophomore since you’re also competing against juniors who the company generally is looking for.</p>
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<p>Absolutely you should cater it to each position. If you don’t you just look like another generic candidate.</p>
<p>You should really show your resume to the career services department. At a school like UT, they certainly have a large enough one that they do resume critique. They would have a lot better insight than a lot of us save the ones that have been hiring managers before (or still are). I am not one of those, though.</p>
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<p>All of the 4 people I remember discussing this with thought the same as I said here. </p>
<p>Approximately 1/3 of the people I know of my year and year inferior got their internship through a personal connection. Maybe I only know people who can network well though.</p>
<p>iambored, have you expanded your search to the Houston and Dallas areas, or are you just applying to Austin metro? Strange thing is I saw a ranking somewhere not too long ago that had UT-Austin as the number one ranked career services dept. Maybe not?</p>
<p>Also, did you attend this event last year?</p>
<p><a href=“http://studentorgs.engr.utexas.edu/expo/[/url]”>http://studentorgs.engr.utexas.edu/expo/</a></p>
<p>You should be preparing yourself for this year’s event as we speak, and if you haven’t been to the career services dept. recently for resume and interview prep, that should be your top priority right now.</p>
<p>Vladenschlutte,</p>
<p>Four people is not a sufficient sample size to draw such conclusions. You also very possibly just attend a school with a crummy career services department. Either way, at most major engineering schools, the career services are VERY helpful and often provide a large portion of grads with jobs, whether through career fairs, internships that lead to jobs or job boards.</p>
<p>A 2% response rate is really good for applications outside of on campus recruiting. I’ve NEVER gotten any response from a resume/cover letter submitted to a company’s website or email. For on campus recruiting my success rate is about 50%. </p>
<p>Learn why you’re not winning the interviews.</p>
<p>Companies on the career services board here have two kinds of postings: ones for a job and ones for an interview pre-screen. For the latter, companies are going to be physically on-campus and they’re trying to fill up their day or two with students to talk with. If you make it into one of those, you have a much better chance of landing a position. I did not use career services myself, but many of my friends simply showed up for interview day with X company and received offers within weeks.</p>
<p>Oftentimes, the job postings for large companies on our board just refer you to their website, which makes them relatively useless unless you were unfamiliar with the company.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should look into smaller companies? Many will get overlooked simply because they don’t have name recognition, but will give you good opportunities.</p>
<p>Are yo looking for internships for this summer? When did you begin? I think its a bit late for this summer’s internships.</p>
<p>Well I was looking for internships for this summer since Fall 2010 but I didn’t get one so i’m currently sitting on my buttt doing nothing mostly. I’m trying to figure out where I am going wrong. Ive been mostly applying on each companies website so this might be an issue…</p>
<p>We’re in an economic recession, so getting an internship or a job can be very difficult.</p>