Landing the job is half the battle. Making sure the job is right for you is the other half. Here’s how.

Seniors may get hurt by unpaid, just-for-credit internships as employers will not bring them in, even for voluntary experience, unless they still have some college credits to earn.
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Here are links to 10 JobsPage articles with some of our best internship-hunting strategies. Yes, this is the time to apply for 2010 summer internships.

Competition for top talent has pushed offers for media internships earlier. The 2008-2009 slowdown in media hiring has made internships more competitive.

Even in the digital age, it still takes a lot of paper to land a good internship. An internship may be the first and last position you ever get strictly on the basis of what you can send through the mail. Many interns are hired sight unseen just because they present so well on paper.