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Advice for college students seeking a tech career: Turn to internships |
June 27, 2014
When Katie Smith interned with Capital One, she expected to spend the summer fetching beverages for her manager—instead, she started on a career path that led to a full-time IT job at the banking and financial services company.“I thought I would be getting coffee for my manager or, in my manager’s case, Mountain Dew,” said Smith, who interned as a business systems analyst in 2012 before starting her senior year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “I wasn’t doing that at all. I was actually contributing and my work was used by senior directors.”Smith’s positive experience at Capital One led her to “try something new and take a risk,” accepting a job with the company in McLean, Virginia, after graduation rather than pursuing a master’s degree in materials engineering. Last summer, Smith, who holds dual degrees in materials engineering and biomedical engineering, began working as a business systems analyst on the Web analytics team. That role exposed Smith to Web and mobile programming, which, she discovered, shared traits with engineering.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2418680/advice-for-college-students-seeking-a-tech-career-turn-to-internships.html#tk.rss_all
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