Know what you're getting yourself into

Johnson181
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:23:59 +0000

I’m not applying online anymore because without knowing someone within the company my application won’t even be read. Don’t call me wrong on this one because I know it’s true.



That’s such an incredibly foolish position to hold. Quite frankly, I’m not sure how you expect to succeed with how easily you give/gave up. For the record, the co-op I had last year I got through applying online via the company. I didn’t know anyone there at all, had no connections to them, etc. Also, just to keep count here, I had applied to literally dozens of companies - it’s all just a numbers game (several other interviews I’ve had were through the same method).

The things you claim to “know to be true” are clearly not always correct. You really need to gain some real perspective on life- you have such a skewed and false outlook on how the internship/job search works. Meet with some other counselors in the career center (as someone else said, there’s at least someone there who will work well with you), and stop the pity party already.