Why intern?

Sometimes interaction can be the best teacher. How good are you at taking orders? Following through? Listening? Completing tasks?

School provides a complete forum for such tests, but it's the real-world experience that gives you a taste of the meat. Why not sink your teeth into a big bite of prime rib - an internship.

Students are valuable assets to companies, half-educated or not. Sure, you may have to sweat blood and tears doing work the janitor refuses to do, but getting out of school and into your future will transfer the learning to action.

You'll quickly find if you can become one with the office, fearlessly taking on new and different projects, if you can make the grouchy CEO feel like a million bucks or if your motivation runs short after 20 minutes.

An education furnishes you with unlimited potential. Companies are looking to unleash it.

They will go to all lengths to maximize what you have to offer. It's an invaluable opportunity to jump in and eliminate any fears you had about failing on the job. (You're an intern - you're supposed to be a hopeless wreck.) It's your turn to pester everyone above you with a million questions so you can have the whole scene dialed before you graduate.

This "job before a job" might lead you to a new skill or interest you never thought you had.

Maybe you'll find out "If that person can do it, I know I can do it."

Maybe you'll get your name out there, meet new contacts, have relations with the president and get a job at Revlon.

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