LER 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linkedin, Personal Branding

• School: PSU
• Department: Labor and Employment Relations
• Course: LER 100
• Professor: Dr. clark

Document Summary

Internships: critically important part of the college experience, benefits of internships, real world experience. Is this career for you: employers value them, good for the resume, could lead to a job, could change your life, to be unpaid, us department of labor requires. Internship must be similar to training in an educational environment. Internship is for the benefit of the intern. Interns does not displace regular employees: employers derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern. Job/internship searches: top mistakes students make, narrow geographic focus, preoccupation with salary. Insufficient networking: flawed - communication, not fully tapping career office services, five things to do, perfect your application materials, activate your network. Join a professional organization: be on from the start, make that first impression count. Interviews: prepare, practice, anticipate, one of the best ways to do this is to do. I believe the career center provides the opportunity to do.