“Experience preferred.”

I remember those words in ads when I began my first job search years ago, fresh out of college. But let’s be honest – I didn’t have any experience, and I didn’t see how I could have gotten any while working on my degree. After all, that degree was supposed to be the key to getting that first job and acquiring that experience – right?

What I didn’t realize was that there had been opportunities during my college career to apply for internships in my chosen field and thereby get some of that much-desired work experience. I would have been much more marketable if I had. And if you fast forward two decades into today’s world, you will find that the same dynamic is at work – and that internships are even more important for students who are graduating and seeking that first job.

The Internship Institute is a program devoted to helping students with the College Recruiting and post-collegiate employment experience by making internships more readily available and more standardized in terms of their content. And since such internships are becoming a graduation requirement at more and more colleges, they are proposing that one half of the tuition paid by college students for their internships be set aside to create internship readiness centers, thereby closing the gap between school and work. Check out the proposal at their website, located at http://www.internshipinstitute.org/.

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