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In this episode, Alyssa answers the question “What To Do this Summer if You Don’t Have an Internship”. With COVID impacting many summer internships, students are searching for different ways to develop experiences and skills for a career path.
What CAN you do and what SHOULD you do? Here are a few tips she shares in the video:
Volunteer
Join professional associations
& MORE
Tune into the episode to hear her share why these are awesome …
Another resource for free skill building over the summer! IBM new platform Open P-TECH. Students can take free online classes in things like block chain, design thinking, AI amongst others.
Digital learning on cutting-edge technology, designed for students!
Engaging videos and gamified assessments to spark and keep student interest!
Free to academic institutions, students, and teachers!
Industry-recognized digital badges!
Special resources for teachers!
MindSumo is an EduTech crowdsourcing startup that bridges the gap between large corporations and the Millennial/GenZ generations via innovation, insight and research projects. We have worked with over 350 companies in the past – everyone from Walmart, Amazon, Google, Facebook to Unilever, Spotify, Kellogg’s and Disney to name a few.
They have a couple of exciting challenges up on MindSumo for your students to solve while they take classes from home. Two of the challenges are specific to Covid19.
First, it’s OK to mope a little bit. Let it out. Feeling sad about this is expected and warranted.
But know that you’re not alone in this. Every college student in the US, and most of the world, is impacted by the pandemic. And recruiters and hiring managers are living through this moment with you, so they’ll show you some grace.