Employers will be interested in you if they can tell that you're interested in them.ĥ. Make sure your emails are unique to every person and every internship or job you apply for. You need to make yourself memorable! Follow-up emails are key if you don't hear back don't be nervous to reach out more than once. It's not enough to shake someone's hand and chat for two minutes. Actually being good at networking is really hard. See if your school has an alumni database. Make your own business cards and go to networking events. So start knowing people: Get to know your professors, since they've probably worked at publications that could give you an internship or job. You could be an OK reporter, but because you know someone who knows someone who knows someone, you might just land a kick-butt position. In journalism, who you know is essential. Get them over with early so you have space for fun electives later.ģ. Unless you took credits in high school that count toward graduation, you still have to take general arts and sciences classes. No internship is beneath you - in fact, you'll probably get bigger responsibilities at smaller publications.Ģ. Your internship at the local newsletter can get you an internship at the local newspaper, which can get you an internship at a bigger name. Start looking for internships freshman year. Once you start college, not much changes except your college application is now your résumé, and your résumé is now your life. All throughout high school, your goal was to be as involved as possible to build up your college application. Your summer vacations aren't actually going to be a vacation.
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