IT Internship Workbook
1 Seeking a position in your IT career field
Your first step in securing a position involves finding opportunities and
selling yourself as
the candidate right for the job you want. You've already had to do this once
to secure an internship. Doing it again for a fulltime or
career-advancing position may be harder! It most often involves three basic steps:
- finding out about positions employers are seeking to fill
- identifying yourself as a highly credible potential candidate
- presenting yourself, usually in interviews, and convincing decisionmakers to select you.
Locating open positions depends on reviewing traditional classified want ads
as well as researching job-posting web sites and also
keeping an eye on positions open in your current company as posted on its
own human relations web site or internal communications. We
assume that you can take this first step without assistance. But how you
take the second step, identifying yourself as a credible candidate, involves preparation
of a resume and cover letter and the use of some strategy. It's where we'll
start in this first workbook chapter. The
links to web resources listed here will help you gain a perspective
on techniques to present yourself well in a resume. Read the introduction and
chapter 1 of Alexandra Levit's They Don't Teach Corporate in College and examine
each of these links to prepare to do your assignment 1.
Please visit the Assignments link at the left to get an overall
understanding of this and the other assignments for this course.
Links you need to explore for this chapter: