Yale Daily News Guide To Internships 2000:
The Essential Guide To Landing A Career-Launching Internship

Comprehensive Guide to Top Internship Opportunities Worldwide

New York -- From finding the best internships to creating the perfect resume and to handling any interview with ease, Yale Daily News: Guide to Internships 2000: Guide to Internships 2000: Guide to Internships 2000 (Kaplan/Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-86283-2, $25) is the "start-to-finish" guide to the entire internship process. Created for students by students who are staff members of the prestigious Yale Daily News and fresh from the internship process themselves, the Yale Daily News: Guide to Internships 2000: Guide to Internships 2000: Guide to Internships 2000 is the ultimate source of thousands of internship opportunities in a wide range of fields including business, entertainment, finance, public policy, technology, and more.

In addition to detailed, user-friendly indexes of individual internships, this year's editorial staff interviewed scores of former interns about their experiences and compiled the following list of the nation's top internship programs:

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery -- "Interns report the staff is readily available to answer questions, welcoming them with open arms."

Mystic Seaport Museum -- "At the museum, no job is ever menial--interns are expected to take advantage of all the opportunities that are provided to them."

Bike Aid -- "Applicants be warned, this internship is not for the unmotivated--taking the job requires that you actually participate in the trip itself!"

Feminist Majority Foundation -- "Interns are given a lot of space to work with--and are treated like a member of the staff."

Crown Capital -- "Superiors have an open-door policy, taking time out of their day to answer intern questions--Interns rave about the collegiality of the employees."

Reebok -- "The laid-back atmosphere at Reebok makes meeting employees and fellow interns pretty easy."

Lucasfilm Ltd. -- "One intern was so excited by his co-workers and tasks--the summer 'flew right by.'"

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences -- "Interns are given unprecedented access to scripts, sets and various professionals in the business."

U.S. Olympic Committee -- "Past interns claim that there is no better introduction to Olympic sports and their administration than a stint at the USOC."

New York Times -- "Every intern at the Times is treated like an entry-level reporter--one intern reports he was given freedom to pursue his own story ideas."

Washingtonian -- "Interns take part in every part of the publishing process, from writing to editing, from fact-checking to watching the presses roll."

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies -- "Interns we spoke with bemoaned the fact that their internship was only three months--most applied for full-time positions."

Lunar and Planetary Institute -- "Houston here we come! A summer here can give a student a good idea of what it might be like to take part in our country's space program."

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center -- "Researchers are very willing to discuss their projects with interns, as well as help students with their own projects."

Microsoft -- "Interns continue to rave about their experience and the knowledge they pick up after a summer of 'incredible responsibility.'"

Unlike other internship guides, Yale Daily News: Guide to Internships 2000 Guide to Internships 2000 offers student-to-student guidance culled from hundreds of interns, giving tips on how to make the most of an internship experience and recommending how to build that experience into a rewarding career. This year's edition also features a special new Internet research section outlining the ins and outs of searching for hot internships on the Web.

Yale Daily News: Guide to Internships 2000
Kaplan/Simon & Schuster
0-684-86283-2, $25
September 1999

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