Since I've recorded a video in the morning, I forgot just how cold it can get up here, especially at night.

Luckily for me, have a nice sweatshirt in a nice warm.

Also, if you get married and your friends know you love coffee, you're gonna find yourself having a lot of cups like this.

I don't know if you can see that very well, but as Mr Those Air like antlers right there But mister.

And then there's a Mrs won, of course, and there's a lot of different cups just like that.

And although I thoroughly enjoy making a whole entire video about coffee, that's not what this video is all about.

This radio is about how to get a computer science internship, so there's essentially four steps to this process.

One.

Be a computer science major, and you don't actually necessarily need to be a computer science major to get a computer science internship.

But it's a lot easier, and that's most of my audience.

So as we're going to go with your computer engineering or something similar, then you could very well potentially get a computer science internship as well.

But that's out of my my scope.

So I'm just going to focus on computer science majors to find companies that you would like to work for.

Three.

Apply to those companies, and four go through the interview process.

Now we're just essentially gonna be talking about two in three, whereas one that's kind of you know, you're either computer science major you're not, and then four going through the interview process.

I've made a few different videos on that before, kind of how to approach interview process, that mindset going into it.

But I'm also gonna leave that up to y'all to study on your own with the sponsorship of this video prams.

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Let's say you have a test coming up in class.

A lot of professors and teachers will give you like what is the proper name for, like a practice test where Basically, you can fill out the practice test, go and talk with your peers or going talk with your professor and see kind of what you did, right, What you did wrong.

And it gives you a first look into that test that you're preparing for.

That's essentially what cramp does.

But for interview.

So you're going in, You're practicing your interviews, and then you're gonna be better prepared for your actual interviews.

Technically and behaviorally, I want to leave a link to print down below so you can check out a bit more of what they have to offer, because it's not just like, you know, an interview.

It's actually specific for what you're approaching, whether that's data science, data structures, an algorithm system designed so on and so forth.

So I'd really encourage you to go and check that out, especially if you need to prepare for an interview.

It's just a good place for a software engineer community to really come together and prepare for their upcoming interviews.

But before you get to the interview process, as discussed earlier in this video, you need to figure out what cos you want to work for and apply to those companies.

Now, there are many different ways to go about this, depending on your exact situation, but something that could essentially be applied to everyone.

One.

Career fairs You could go to career fairs at your school or schools nearby are hosting online, whether that be on something like indeed dot com.

Or you're going to the company's actual Web site, seeing their open internship positions or just quality meal ing actually found by NASA and Norfolk Southern internship online and last, but probably the most important networking when it comes to career fairs.

If you don't know what that is, basically a bunch of companies come to your school.

They set up tables around, and they sit there and essentially network with students.

As a student, what you want to do at career fairs is bring plenty of copies of your resume, you know, carrying around in a manila folder to look professional and then dress like business casual at least I mean, you can get by with, like, just a polo and khakis or what have you, but this is your first impression.

You want to make a good first impression and doesn't matter if your program or whatever.

You know, I dress like this to work, but your first impression is a little bit different than your day to day life.

So make sure you dress well, Present yourself well, speak well and just go from table to table.

Company to company.

Be confident as you can.

Just network.

I'd also recommend looking at the company's online.

If you know particular amount of cos they're gonna be coming to career fairs and what those companies are, Look into them a little bit.

So you know what to talk about.

If it's a railroad company, you want to know a little bit about the railroad on what this company has to do with the railroad.

So on and so forth you get what I mean, and that's a good segue way into applying online so you can find out about these companies online.

But you can also find out about the positions they offer online, whether that be like I said, indeed dot com or on their actual website.

And the main thing to do here, since you have the luxury of studying up on the actual internship position, is catering your resume to that internship position if they're asking for someone that could do X, Y and Z, make sure that you can D'oh, x, Y and Z make sure you list that on your resume and then send that off to them and all honesty.

Although I got two of my internships online, I never wrote a cover letter.

And what would it better your chances when applying to any company is networking if you know anybody in the company that will help you tremendously.

I didn't have that luxury it either.

My internships, but I'm sure if there's somebody that is on the same playing field as me.

But they knew someone at one of these companies they'd have the leg up for the most part.

So in order to network get involved in clubs at your school.

For me, it was the a C M O D.

A.

Which is the Association for Computational Machinery.

If I recall correctly and we would have speakers come in from different companies talking about their job talking about their company, and then you would want a network with them, get some business cards, make a good first impression on them.

Hopefully they remember you.

You send an email kind of remind them like, Hey, I was at you know, that event that you spoke at spoke with you afterwards, you mentioned that you may have an opening for an intern at your company.

Here's my resume.

What do you think?

You know, you just essentially make out an email.

Send your resume and hope for the best follow up, maybe a week later for maybe five days later.

If you haven't heard anything back and then hopefully you'll be selected for the interview process now to better your chances when applying to any company.

As a computer science major, you can do two things.

One.

Build a portfolio.

Doing schoolwork is good and sure, you're gonna have, you know, a school work portfolio.

But showing initiative that you're working on your own projects outside of school is better.

It's that much better where, as you know, these are things you need to do because that's what you're doing in school.

These are things that you want to do.

It shows that you're interested in the field and not just trying to get by your computer science degree, and then that's something for you to show off.

to potential employers, which will really give you a leg up over the person who just has their computer science classes under their belt.

But don't be discouraged.

If you don't have a portfolio just yet, you can still apply.

It won't hurt to apply to places if you just have, you know, your computer science classes and your computer science portfolio.

Just know that it would be better to build your own portfolio.

That's all I'm saying, and also something that I didn't do.

But I know has helped many people that I know hackathons.

I mean, you showing that you've participated in hackathons is very good, but also the projects that you build a hackathons could be a part of your portfolio.

It just shows your initiative within the industry.

And that's what people want as their point.

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