How to find Internship opportunity in USA

 How to find Internship opportunity in USA

i'm going to talk to

you about how to find an internship in

u.s all right so i'm going to cover

three topics in this uh number one is

when to apply for an internship if

you're an immigrant obviously then the

second is your mindset while you're

applying for internship and number three

is how to really apply for internships

so i'm gonna show you um on my screen

how i would apply for an internship if i

was to do it over again all right so uh

let's jump right into the topic so

imagine this so

you want to uh find a job for imagine

summer of 2022. so the best time to

apply for

a job which you wanted to start in may

of 2022 would be november so about six

to seven months before you can start as

a matter of fact as soon as you come but

in my opinion six months before is a

great time to start applying

now

you have to understand one thing when

you're applying for an internship um

there are a lot of jobs which will ask

you do you need sponsorship or something

like that you can say no

i would say no because sometimes you

know that might keep you from getting an

internship so to be honest your goal

with an internship is just to get an

experience your goal is not to find a

company that will sponsor you

or something like that in my opinion

initially if you don't have any prior

experience okay now if you are applying

to companies like tech companies like

microsoft facebook stuff like that and

even bigger companies they will usually

sponsor their individuals they will

usually but it's okay for you to say

that you don't need sponsorship at this

point of time because you don't want

that to stop you from getting an

internship and getting an experience

okay

second never go for a free internship

always go for a paid intention if you go

for an um internship which doesn't pay

you you may get experience but you know

in my opinion it's it's not a fair trade

um you won't feel like you're doing

you know you're doing the best you won't

feel

good from your heart so you want to go

for something that is paid preferably

paid well okay um in my opinion any

internship in u.s which pays more than

let's say 15 to 17 is a great internship

now if you're working in bigger

cities you might get thirty forty

dollars also if you are lucky if you're

working in tech or computer science you

might get thirty forty dollars very

easily uh but those are

exceptions so fifteen to twenty dollars

is a great internship for in my opinion

for you to get started with all right so

let's look at your mindset when you're

applying for jobs so

i remember a mentor of mine once told me

like you know when you're applying for

jobs

imagine this um he said this that

finding a full-time job is a full-time

job in itself so you have to put in

30-40 hours a week to find that so if

you're going to find an internship in my

opinion you don't need that much amount

of time but i would dedicate a specific

amount of time every single weeks in my

opinion about 10 to 15 hours every

single week for three to four five six

months until you find an internship in

my opinion to be honest because

you came to america to do your masters

and find a job isn't it

so you should that is your duty so you

you don't run away from your duty you

can't say i'm so busy doing part-time or

etc that i don't have time to find a job

you can't say that right like you can't

say i'm so busy doing part-time then i

don't have time to study or don't have

time to go to school so that is

that is a wrong excuse in my opinion

okay that is a cop-out don't do that so

find time

make sure your priorities are well

defined okay so what kind of mindset you

have so the best thing i would do

imagine this if you were to have a

full-time job what time would you go to

your job you'd go to the job from like

nine to five right so in my opinion you

should also start you should also apply

to these internships between nine to

five you should i would to be honest i

would literally like wake up in the

morning i would dress up in a nice shirt

put on a nice shirt and start applying

and sit in front of a computer and start

applying for new jobs or internships

that's what i would do as a matter of

fact i remember doing the same when i

was going through my last semester in um

in my college and when i was looking for

a full-time job i would every morning

take a shower i would dress up from 9am

to 1pm i would apply for 10 to 15 jobs

every single day i would literally

wouldn't come home for lunch i would go

and sit at an internet cafe

at my leasing office has free internet

so i would just go and sit there and

just keep applying for jobs there so

that is the mindset you should have so

the mindset is number one you're gonna

apply to jobs during working hours so

because it just makes sense in my

opinion okay now if you're busy during

that time you're doing something else

you can use the evening hours to do that

but morning time is my in my opinion

nine to five is the best all right

second

uh one of the things that happens is

like people do very little work they'll

apply for like five jobs or ten jobs in

three weeks and they'll say hey i'm not

hearing anything they'll apply for like

20 jobs they're like oh i applied for 20

jobs it's been a month and i haven't

heard anything from anyone now

that is you know that is not right folks

you want to do a bunch of work you do a

lot of work and expect small results

instead of doing small work and

expecting big results so that's what you

do in my opinion i remember i applied to

over 300 companies in detroit metro area

to find an internship and as a matter of

fact i didn't even get even after that

300 companies i applied to i had made a

list of every company i had applied to

and eventually what happened i ran out

of companies in detroit area so i took

my list and i went back to it and i

started reapplying to these companies i

started sending my resumes on some

random email whichever i would find on

the website and i would send it to them

and that's how i found

one of the companies that called me back

um that replied to it and they called me

for an interview and i found it and i

found my internships

so

you don't know how you're gonna find it

so i would say make sure i would put a

goal for yourself i would say apply for

10 jobs a day for next 90 days so if you

take out the weekend you should be

applying for about 500 plus jobs in next

90 days because that is perfect amount

of work in a small amount of time so you

do a lot of work in small amount of time

and that will also improve your chances

of doing interviews and you have this

built-in momentum going into your

interview so even if let's say for

example if you have let's say two or

three interviews set up over two three

weeks even if you flunk one of the

interviews you're fine you know there's

another this thing you know there's

another interview waiting for you so

that is the mindset of

abundance so you want to develop this

abundance mindset by working hard by

putting in the work so your self-image

your confidence will be dependent on

your work ethic and not

some

fluke of like you know

whatever so let's jump into how to apply

for an internship okay so let's look at

this

so i'm gonna share my screen here

and let's check it out so now

i have done a simple search here

which says civil engineering internships

in detroit

so now you can see there are multiple

companies that have already i can see

that there are multiple companies that

are looking for civil engineers there is

my company that is already looking for

one um i haven't even heard of this one

to be honest that's another department

i'm in a civil department but okay let's

look at it civil engineering intern um

gift webster's jifel webster's all right

so then there is a rook and there is

stone field engineering and design so if

you really see i've already worked at

this company um i worked at obviously

you know i work for wsb usa and then

there are all these companies who are

hiring people they're a bunch of

companies hiring people look at that how

many jobs i'm finding just in detroit

metro area so when people tell me i've

applied to a lot of jobs and i'm not

hearing um you know you may be doing

something wrong you may be

not applying to enough companies or you

haven't figured out how to get your

resume in the hr

hands how to get your resume in the hr's

this thing okay all right so let's look

at this so here's what i would do now

first thing what i would do i would

apply to this job on this website

whatever this website is i would go here

and apply then second thing i would do

is

i would also copy this and i will go to

their website here okay so let's go to

their website find this

okay so let's look at this

this one first all right so you can see

average salaries for this area and stuff

like that and boom you go ahead and you

apply all right so you figure out how to

apply there second

second way of doing that is look at that

jiffy webster's you go to careers

and you will see

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what they are looking for so you can see

what they are looking for let's say

all right okay look at that so civil

engineering intern civil engineer entry

level look at that how many jobs they

have and now let's say you can even

apply here

why not what's stopping you and here's

the thing

look at that they're saying to introduce

yourself please submit a letter and

resume by email

so if you just did the minimum work if

you just applied here

you wouldn't have found

this email wouldn't it

so what you did is you increased your

chances

by

now what i would do i would copy this

email i would go to my email and i'll

just copy paste and send in a resume and

i would say simply hey my name is xyz

and i'm looking for an internship

position at this this and i currently

work at this please

find the attached resume that's it

you're done so you have

multiplied your chances of getting

inside the

hr's

email box by so many times folks and

this is how you find a job this is

exactly this is exactly how i have found

all three of my last jobs because i was

smart enough or i was um

stupid enough to believe that you know

this would work so

that's what is my secret to be honest

and also

last thing i'll say this and i'll let

you go is

here's the thing folks

finding a job in america is a skill and

you need to develop this skill you are

not going to just work one job in

america

god heaven's sake you are going to be

fired one day i'll be honest with you if

you haven't lost your job till yet just

wait for some time and it will happen to

you because everybody goes through it

folks

so you will have to figure out how to

find a new job so it makes sense to

figure it out the first time you're

doing it just figuring it out how to do

it and once you figure out that pattern

you just have to write it down or

remember it and then whenever you need

it you go back to it and you start

applying you start putting the hammer

down and you start applying and that is

what been my secret folks okay i think

that's all i had for you but i had great

time talking to you i love you guys and

i'll see you in the next video take care

all the way