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The Difficulty of Securing Internships During COVID
The impacts of the Coronavirus are here to stay. As a student, you’re most likely learning through your laptop screen, dealing with long-winded take-home exams, and feeling exhausted from an internship search in a market with fewer openings than ever.
In May 2020, I had a number of universities career center admin reach out to me to try and secure a pipeline for students who had their internships cancelled to our summer internship openings. I told them that we had been inundated with applications through Handshake, receiving 272 applicants for our Applied Data Science Internship position in just 14 days before I closed the application. During those interviews, I asked students what…
