cpsylist: Students seeking internship: What to do now

[Shoshana Kerewsky]

Dear internship applicants,

Welcome back! Here are some tips for smoothing this process and reducing stress:

1. Do what Ellen tells you, in a timely manner.

2. If you're not subscribed to the APPIC internship and MATCH lists, do so now. You're missing new sites, deadlines, announcements, and helpful topics such as how many applications to complete.

3. If you haven't already, make a schedule starting with when your first application is due and work backward. You'll want to be sure to have enough lead time for every part of your application to be submitted. This may mean lovingly checking with your letter writers.

4. Have a colleague who is detail-oriented and can spell look over your entire application. Print it out so headings and formatting show as well. If you are not that detail-oriented spelling champ, read your friend's materials for content, clarity, and organization, then make your friend waffles or some other recompense for having to have another person proofread their materials.

5. Right now, today, take your child or dogs barking "Jingle Bells" off the answering system for the phone number you are providing to sites. Make your message clear and professional.

6. As soon as you've contacted any site for any reason, or submitted your first application, do not answer that phone while inebriated. Keep a pen and pad or other way to take notes near that phone.

7. Right now, today, send a friend with good spelling an email from the account you are providing to sites. Your friend should check the spelling in your signature. If you have a quote in your sig, make sure it's professionally appropriate and spelled correctly--"Gandhi," not "Ghandhi."

8. Look ahead and give your GE supervisor or other supervisors advance notice that you're applying for internship and will have interviews later in the academic year. Appreciate in advance their willingness to flex your schedule with advance notice.

9. I am not allowed to tell you to get a flu shot, but hypothetically I could tell you horrific stories of people unable to complete interviews because they contracted the flu on an airplane or at a site, and these terrible stories might, in theory, suggest the utility of a flu shot for people in circumstances such as yours.

10. Apropos of which, don't for get self care!

Shoshana, Internship Application Survivor
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