it's been a while since I've recorded a
video in the morning I forgot just how
cold he can get up here especially at
night luckily for me I have my nice
sweatshirt and a nice also if you get
married and your friends know you love
coffee you're gonna find yourself having
a lot of cups like this I don't know if
you can see that very well but as mr.
those are like antlers right there but
mister and then there's a missus one of
course and there's a lot of different
cups just like that and although I
thoroughly enjoy making a whole entire
video about coffee that's not what this
video is all about this video is about
how to get a computer science internship
so there's essentially four steps to
this process one be a computer science
major and you don't actually necessarily
need to be a computer science major to
go to computer science internship but
it's a lot easier and that's most of my
audience so that's what we're gonna go
with for your computer engineering or
something similar then you can very well
potentially get a computer science
internship as well but that's out of my
my scope so I'm just going to focus on
computer science majors to find
companies that you would like to work
for three apply to those companies and
four go through the interview process
now we're just essentially going to be
talking about two and three whereas one
that's kind of you know you're either
computer science major you're not and
then for going through the interview
process I've made a few different videos
on that before kind of how to approach
the interview process the mindset going
into it but I'm also going to leave that
up to y'all to study on your own with
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interviews but before you get to the
interview process as discussed earlier
in this video you need to figure out
what companies you want to work for and
apply to those companies now there are
many different ways to go about this
depending on your exact situation but
something that can essentially be
applied to everyone one career fair so
you can go to career fairs at your
school or schools nearby or hosting
online whether that be on something like
indeed.com
or you're going to the company's actual
website seeing their open internship
positions or just cold emailing them I
actually found my NASA and Norfolk
Southern internship online and last but
probably the most important networking
when it comes to career fairs if you
don't know what that is basically a
bunch of companies come to your school
they set up tables around and they sit
there and essentially network with the
students as a student what you want to
do at career fairs is bring plenty of
copies of your resume you know carry
them around in a manila folder to look
professional and then dress like
business casual at least I mean you can
get by with like just a polo and khakis
or what-have-you but this is your first
impression you want to make a good first
impression and it doesn't matter if
you're a program or whatever you know I
dress like this to work but your first
impression is a little bit different
than your day-to-day life so make sure
you dress well present yourself well
speak well and just go from table to
table company to company be confident as
you can just network I'd also recommend
looking at the company's online if you
know particularly amount of companies
are gonna be coming to career fairs and
what those companies are look into them
a little bit so you know what to talk
about if it's a railroad company you
want to know a little bit about the
railroad and what this company has to do
with the railroad so on and so forth
and that's a good segue into applying
online so you can find out about these
companies online but you can also find
out about the positions they offer
online whether that be like I said
indeed.com or on their actual website
and the main thing to do here since you
have the luxury of studying up on the
actual internship position is catering
your resume to that internship position
if they're asking for someone that can
do X Y & Z
make sure that you can do X Y & Z make
sure you list that on your resume and
then send that off to them in all
honesty although I got two of my
internships online I never wrote a cover
letter and what would it better your
chances when applying to any company is
networking if you know anybody in the
company that will help you tremendously
I didn't have that luxury at either my
internships but I'm sure if there's
somebody that is on the same playing
field as me but they knew someone at one
of these companies they'd have the leg
up for the most part so in order to
network get involved in clubs at your
school for me it was the ACM o2u which
is the Association for computational
machinery if I recall correctly and we
would have speakers come in from
different companies talking about their
job talking about their company and then
you would want to network with them get
some business cards make a good first
impression on them hopefully they
remember you you know you're sending an
email kind of remind them like hey I was
at you know that event that you spoke at
spoke with you afterwards you mentioned
that you may have an opening for an
intern at your company here's my resume
what do you think you know you just
essentially make out an email send your
resume and hope for the best
follow-up maybe a week later four maybe
five days later if you haven't heard
anything back and then hopefully you'll
be selected for the interview process
now to better your chances when applying
to any company as a computer science
major you can do two things one build a
portfolio doing schoolwork is good and
sure you're gonna have you know a school
work portfolio but showing initiative
that you're working on your own projects
outside of school is better it's that
much better whereas you know these are
things you need to do because that's
what you're doing in school these are
the things that you want to do it shows
that you're interested
in the field and not just trying to get
by your computer science degree and then
that's something for you to show off to
potential employers which will really
give you a leg up over the person who
just has their computer science classes
under their belt but don't be
discouraged if you don't have a
portfolio just yet you can still apply
it won't hurt to apply to places if you
just have you know you're computer
science classes and you're computer
science portfolio just know that it
would be better to build your own
portfolio that's all I'm saying and also
something that I didn't do but I know
has helped many people that I know
hackathons
I mean you showing that you've
participated in hackathons is very good
but also the projects that you build at
hackathons can be a part of your
portfolio it just shows your initiative
within the industry and that's what
people want as their employees so hope
you guys found some value out of this
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