Turning Your Internship into a Full-Time Job

As a follow-up to my last post about how it's ok to accept a summer internship to start off your post-college career, I have a piece of advice about how you can turn that internship into a full-time job.

In addition to the obvious - doing great work - keep a daily diary/journal of everything you do at your internship and what you learned that day. Keep a notebook at your desk to record this information and type it up in the evenings. The reason I say to type it is because at the end of your internship you are going to turn it into a full report about all the great work you did, what you learned and why you should be hired full-time. Also, keep any news clips you helped place, reports you helped draft, press releases you wrote, etc.

If your organization is not at a position financially where it can hire you on full-time, you've just created a stellar portfolio you can present to other organizations.

For those of you who get entry-level jobs in May, do this same thing and present it when it's time for your annual review. Your superiors will be impressed!