Sunday, November 18, 2012
Intern Sushi Helps You Skip the Resume and Find and Apply to Internships
lifehacker.com: This whole resume system for applying to jobs doesn't work too well for people who don't have a lot to put on their resumes—people looking for internships. Intern Sushi offers potential interns and hiring companies an alternative way to find each other.
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Intern Sushi is interesting.... I really like the 1 minute "pitch" where you basically have to let them see your personality while trying to get them to think that you would be a good candidate for the internship or at least an interview. The one downside to the 1 minute pitch is that it could be very misleading. Candidates would be able to edit their footage and do multiple retakes to ensure that they have the perfect blurb and then go into an interview and freeze or just not be very impressive. Then again, people do that with their resumes also.
I signed up with Internet Sushi after reading the article (For the free option of course). I need to fish around their website to see what they have to offer! Any website highlighting legit potential internship opportunities is always a plus.
This video pitch concept only makes me think of reality television applications. I have no interest in presenting myself via video. Maybe it's a good opportunity to hone that elevator speech, but I'm content with other forms of interaction. This ability might attract more "hip" interesting industry positions and opportunities - but they are still internships. Unpaid internships!
An entire website dedicated to getting you unpaid jobs. Once you've created this profile, is it going to be useful when you need to apply for things that pay? I'm pretty sure people are still going to want resumes before they hire you. I don't see this replacing the paper resume anytime soon.
I think the idea of a website based around internships is a brilliant idea, however there are foreseeable issues. I have far to often searched for hours for internships I would find educational and fun, however I spend a lot of the time just clicking through websites attempting to see if a company even offers internships. Companies often don't make their internship pages clear and if they do, the information on them is not very helpful. I end up calling them most of the time anyway. So the idea of having a site with a list of companies that have internships and a way to search for and organize the process of all of them is so smart. However, the biggest issue is when you go to look for a real life job. For example, I now have a great amount of experience in search for and applying to jobs/internships that aren't necessarily widely advertised or mainstreamed. This is a invaluable skill for when I get out into the real world and for the generation who may only know how to on websites like this are at a great disadvantage.
When I first looked at the title only, "Intern Sushi," I had no idea what this was going to be. After watching the video and reading the article, I now have both positive and negative perspectives on this idea of creating a communicating website for employers and interns. First of all, it is great idea that one can create a website that can explains one's accomplishment in a great detail. Also, like shown in the beginning of the video, the company will no longer need to pile up all of paper resume every year. it will be way more organized way than ordinary way. However, the downsides of this website are that one, an intern might be judged based on their appearance because interns will post videos introducing themselves. Also, not all of companies will use this website, which means that interns have to create both website-resume and paper-resume. I still think there might be some issues when people try to get internship through this website, but I think website-based resume can be unique and creative way to make one's resume more stand out.
This looks like a kickstarter spinoff gone wrong. This hardly looks professional and it's hard to imagine taking an application seriously if it is a video and from this site. I would be astonished if this takes off and becomes popular. I hardly think that resumes are dated and need replacing. They seem to be doing their job just fine. I would prefer to present myself in a more professional manner than this. I also find it funny that the target audience is solely young people applying for internships. It seems like a way to make young, unexperienced candidates look even younger and less experienced. It also is probably the only group of people who may think that this is a good idea.
I agree that this does not really look professional. I know I would personally have hard time taking information seriously if it came from a website called “Intern Sushi.” I also agree that I think the idea behind create this website is great but intern sushi has a lot of Laws. I also think that it would be odd to pitch yourself in a one minute video but I do see how it could be good and bad.
I agree with everyone that this idea might have some merit, but as most people pointed out, there are some serious downsides. First of all, I learned A LOT about job searching and professional demeanor and phone interview skills when I was looking for internships in college. Sure, it was sometimes annoying to have to go through tons of company websites and find what they were looking for, but eventually we're all going to have to do that to find jobs that pay money, so I think it's a good idea to have some experience with the process before your rent depends on it.
Furthermore, needing a resume for unpaid internships means just that: you need to come up with a resume. When you're applying for internships, the companies know that you won't have as much experience as someone applying for a paying job. However, learning how to present yourself on a resume, even if you don't have the most experience, is a hugely important skill to learn, and in fact, some interviewers might give you advice about your resume during an interview or after they've hired you that they wouldn't give to an applicant for a paying job.
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I joined up with InternSushi when it was back in beta and quickly dropped it... I realized that if employers cannot spend more than 15 seconds looking at a resume, they won't spend the 10 minutes it may take to fully browse your Intern website. I found the building of the website itself to be an indication of some of the skills an employer for an unpaid internship may look for (taking a project to completion, writing and stylistic sense, and the ability to reflect and concisely explain your qualifications and ideas in a creative way) more than what went on the website itself. I can see the point to creating a personal space on the internet for employers who are interested in learning more about you without picking up the phone, but just couldn't rationalize the thought of employers actively picking through the entire Intern Sushi website to find potential employees.
This is a great idea. I remember asking my mother when I was about seven, how you were supposed to get a job if you had never had one, she really didn't have a good answer it was basically, "you trick someone into giving you a interview and then you make yourself look really good". Intern Sushi makes it so that you do not have to trick someone to give you an interview, you can just give them one. I don't really know what I would put in my video, I feel like either it would make me look really goofy or really boring. I never know what to put on my resume and if anything will really look impressive to potential employers, this website may give some easy in roads.
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