Ask HN: How do you get Internships with no work experience but cool projects?
hey! I'm looking for some internships and was wondering if you guys can provide resources? Thanks!
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1. Go to an in-person career fair hosted by your school or county.
2. Go to a Meetup or Luma events for your industry of interest near your city and talk to real people about what their company does and how your experience making projects relates.
3. Catch up with people you know in real life from your studies about the places they or their contacts work at and your interest in an internship.
It probably starts with some kind of connection.
Then when you talk to a person at the company who needs/wants an intern (the "hiring manager"), you need them to like you. Be nice to them. Listen attentively. Be professional, and also be yourself. Focus on how you can be useful for their team/project/company, not on what you need.
After such communications, follow up with a "thank you" email (or text if familiar) with specifically what you enjoyed about talking to them.
Make sure your resume is perfectly formatted, grammatically correct and not AI generated. Edit it yourself to retain your own voice. You can include skills, technologies, passion projects, and education on your resume, even if you lack work experience.
2. Go to a Meetup or Luma events for your industry of interest near your city and talk to real people about what their company does and how your experience making projects relates.
3. Catch up with people you know in real life from your studies about the places they or their contacts work at and your interest in an internship.
It probably starts with some kind of connection.
Then when you talk to a person at the company who needs/wants an intern (the "hiring manager"), you need them to like you. Be nice to them. Listen attentively. Be professional, and also be yourself. Focus on how you can be useful for their team/project/company, not on what you need.
After such communications, follow up with a "thank you" email (or text if familiar) with specifically what you enjoyed about talking to them.
Make sure your resume is perfectly formatted, grammatically correct and not AI generated. Edit it yourself to retain your own voice. You can include skills, technologies, passion projects, and education on your resume, even if you lack work experience.