How to Absolutely Crush Your Next Internship

This 47-page detailed, comprehensive guide will help students knock their internships out of the park and managers set their interns up for success. You'll take a deep dive into all stages of the internship process—the search process, how to apply, setting expectations, communicating with your team, delivering tangible results, and thoughtful reflection.

This is the book every intern needs. Over 10,000 interns have already used this guide, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Who is this guide for?

✏️ Students wanting to nail their first internship

✏️ Early-stage folks looking to level up their next internship

✏️ Talent of all ages using an internship to pivot career paths

✏️ Managers wondering how to set an intern up for success

✏️ Managers wanting an onboarding document to share with their interns

👇  What is included?  👇

There are nine sections included in this guidebook and is meant to support all stages of the internship process—the search, the application, setting expectations, delivering results, and reflecting.

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THE 9 SECTIONS YOU'LL GET

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📌  Overview and Introduction

What is an internship?

Why do internships exist?

🔑  Opening Up Your Options

How should you prepare for interviews?

What if your dream company doesn’t have internships?

How to pitch yourself with a cold outreach email

🎤  Digging Deep: 15+ Questions to Ask Yourself and Your Target Companies to Pick the Right Internship

What are your parameters?

What are you looking for?

What is the internship's structure?

What will the work look like?

🏆  Setting Internship Goals and Solving Challenges

Detailed steps of how to achieve the 7 common internship goals

How to solve the top 6 internship challenges

🎩  Starting Your Internship on the Right Foot

6 standards and expectations you need to know

👔  Top Working Tips to be a Great Intern

From how to network to the four questions you should ask about every assignment, here are the 18 in-depth tips to be the best intern ever

💁  The Feel-Good Things You Should Remember

8 motivational things that every intern should hear and how to demolish self-doubt

⏰  The End & Next Steps: Reflecting on Your Internship

29 questions to ask yourself at the end of your internship to reflect, grow, and improve your career search

📗  Words from the Wise: What Others Want to Share

I asked my 1,000,000+ followers to share their best internship advice. This guide ends with several page (over 100 pieces) of brilliant crowdsourced advice.

This document is not associated with any of my current, past, or future employers nor any of the companies, platforms, or technologies mentioned in this guide. Do not reproduce without permission. 

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