Looking for a Summer Internship?


by Ben Fischer - Features Editor

Maybe you'd like a hint as to where to find out about those hundreds of companies looking for students just like you, who want to earn some cash and experience for just the summertime. It's about time to start looking for internships if you're interested. I'm going to review the following internship books that you might find helpful. Within the pages of the following two books you can find out about internships offered by everyone from the CIA to BMG, or even the Brookfield Zoo or Coors.

·America's Top Internships, by Mark Oldman and Samer Hamadeh, and published by The Princeton Review.

(on a scale of 1 to 10) Completeness: 8 Information: 9 Appearance: 7 Limitations: U.S. only, lacks general information on why a person would want an internship, and how to interview.

If you're looking for an experience that's not just doing busy work, and you aspiring to get out and give the internship your all, then this is a comprehensive listing (with only a few exceptions) of great summer internship opportunities that you can be sure to get a lot out of. This covers every major and most career interests. This book has already taken a lot of the grunt work out of the search, by looking for all the things that you look for and tell you just about everything you would want to know about an internship with any company. This reference boasts over 13,000 internship positions.

·The Internship Bible, by Mark Oldman and Samer Hamadeh, and published by The Princeton Review.

(on a scale of 1 to 10) Completeness: 8 Information: 8 Appearance: 6 Limitations: Doesn't have any of the Internship listings from America's Top Internships, and an index would be helpful to navigate the piles of information.

This book is more of a supporting reference guide to America's Top Internships and tries to provide just enough information to say what needs to be said, but no more. Compared to the first book, it appears to be a condensed version of all other internship opportunities besides the Top internships. This reference boasts over 100,000 internship opportunities.



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