Category Archives: Internships

Four College Majors That Will Still Get You A Job

Hopefully myfirstpaycheck.com is helping you find a part-time job that puts a little spending money in your pocket and helps pay the bills, but you should expand your search if you are looking for information about careers.  One of our favorite blogs, The Infrastructurist just posted a great blog post ‘You’re Hired! Four College Majors [...]

Posted by myfirstpaycheck on April 1st, 2009
How to Find a Last Minute Summer Job

I wanted to pass on some advice from the great internship site onedayoneinternship.com. Youll have to go to his site to read the whole thing, which is about searching for an internship but applicable – but basically Willy says, Keep on Truckin Go Local Cold Call Ask Your Parents and Their Friends Consider Unpaid Internships [...]

Posted by myfirstpaycheck on June 10th, 2008
From Intern to Employee

One of the great things about our site is that we managed to keep it so flexible. So while, our name seems to imply that we only allow job postings, feel feel to post (and search) for internships and volunteer opportunities as well. That being said, I wanted to pass on this article by Tara [...]

Posted by myfirstpaycheck on May 15th, 2008
Student Summers: Jobs vs. Internships Round 1

I argue that its not necessary for college students to intern during their first or second summer of college. This is going to be the start of a fun debate between me and Willy from OneDayOneJob.com, keep reading! What do you think?

Posted by myfirstpaycheck on March 31st, 2008
Seth Godin’s Internship Program

Seth Godin recently announced on his blog that he was looking for interns, I read right over it but Brandon Laughridge decided that it was the internship for him. What did he do? Started an advertising campaign, obviously. Brandon created http://www.sethsfavoriteintern.com/ and has done pretty much everything else he can think of to show Seth [...]

Posted by myfirstpaycheck on January 29th, 2008