Internships

In the past decade, many college students have ditched the lavish summer vacations to Miami or Los Angeles for summer internships with reputable companies such as Microsoft or Deloitte. Often times these internships are the only ways for students to get a leg up against their peers and attain the real life experience they will need in order to be successful in the workforce.

However, because of the current economic recession in the U.S., fewer students are obtaining internships. With internships becoming more competitive to obtain, many undergraduates students will miss out on the experience they need to attain in order to excel in the workforce. Some people think that this is the best time to be an undergraduate student because hopefully in a few years when the economy picks up it will be easy for undergraduate students to find a job. However, this may not be true because even if jobs are available a few years from now, many employers are reluctant to hire students who do not have sufficient and adequate experience for the job that they are seeking.

More than ever, students will have to become more creative in ways such as starting new businesses or forming innovative extracurricular activities on their college campuses in order to obtain the related work experience they need for their future careers. Photo courtesy of Adrienne Bailey.