Saturday, November 26

Internships : Developer Tea

https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea/51110
(Step-4 of the Developer Career Roadmap)

Getting an internship or an entry level position in the industry.

An internship is a working position at a company where you are given real tasks to accomplish that add value to the company you are interning with.

There are many reasons internships are such an important opportunity.
1. Huge opportunity to learn (because it is a low stakes environment).
2. For your career this is the epitome of a foot in the door.
You should view the internship as an extended multi-day interview. How would your tone and your attitude and your approach change if everyday you showed up for your internship you instead showed up with a mindset that this was an interview.

Some advice I have for you while you are looking for an internship. Ideally, you want to do your internship with a company you would like to end up working with in the future.

Understand this as a mutual opportunity.
Every internship is a mutual investment.

Once you have that internship, you need to have these three specific focuses in mind:
1. Practical Experience
2. Personal Relationships
3. Hire ability (value)

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