Landing Your Ideal Summer Internship

Our latest show is all about landing your ideal summer internship, the first step in a successful post-MBA career.

We have a stellar guest list including:

• Brett Baumoel, Staffing Manager on Microsoft's College Recruiting Team
• Al Cotrone, Director of Career Development at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
• Leila Johansson, MBA - Haas School of Business
• Ken Oyer, Senior Manager, Leadership Development, Vanguard
• Anjie Blindauer, MBA Staffing Consultant with Microsoft

A few days after our show came out, BusinessWeek ran an article talking about the decline in hiring for summer internships. Companies are expecting a 21% decline in hiring the summer students. Not surprisingly, financial services, manufacturing, and construction are expected to be the hardest-hit industries, while computer software and food and beverage companies have slowed the least.

If you think that's bad, prospects for graduating students are even worse this year. So be glad that you have an extra year or two before you go looking for a fulltime job and focus your efforts on landing a great internship. Settle for unpaid positions or positions a little outside your narrow career path. Just having the experience on a resume can really help come graduation time.

Listen to the show for full insight & good luck! http://www.mbapodcaster.com/MBA_MoreInfo/mbaInternship.asp?iEpisode=76