I liken Peppercomm's annual intern hiring process to the NCAA college basketball championship because the competition is just as frenzied: We receive an average of 300 resumes every spring, interview 50 or more promising candidates, and end up offering only eight paid internships.
I must admit to being more than a little intrigued about how students from lesser-known schools often are advancing past the first and second rounds, entering our version of the Sweet 16 and, at this very moment, winning spots among the Elite Eight. Here's what our intern committee found. Their hiring experiences give a good indication of the qualities and accomplishments you should be seeking in your intern candidates.
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Well this article is a little disheartening but a good wake-up call. It has a few very good points about how you should approach applying for a job in general, no matter what school you come from. It does contradict some previous article which claimed that employers would rather have well-rounded employees and train them in specific skills, as opposed to employees who come in with only experience in their field. I'm not sure this applys to our program specifically, but the bit about mid-level schools having better employment programs is really interesting, since the appeal of most of the Ivies is the claim that they'll get you a good job.
I think this is incredibly industry specific. Of course Princeton doesn't have a PR program, they don't even have an undergraduate business school, and they're by and large training their students for grad school, not employment. I think the biggest takehome for "elite" schools about this article is they're doing a pisspoor job of training their students to be professional people regardless of for what they're applying.
This was an interesting article and actually made me a bit angry at the writer for painting the students at elite schools like Carnegie Mellon in a negative light. The pool of students that he is selecting from is a very small sample of all of the amazing students that actually attend the elite schools across the nation. I remember in high school when I was applying to schools, so many of my friends who had slacked off in their four years would try to tell me that the name and reputation of your school didn't matter, you could get a good education anywhere. THIS IS NOT TRUE. There is a difference in getting and education from Carnegie Mellon compared to going to some hick-ville school in South Carolina. Not only do we have better professors and resources, our name actually means something in the real world and in so many professional industries. I am a prestige horror because prestige and the name of your school actually does matter. Of course, there are a lot of things that you need to have along with your diploma in order to succeed, but A diploma from Carnegie Mellon will never negative. Steve Cody, what university did you attend?
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