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Did you do any internships?
"Did
you do any internships?"
You should be asked this question if your resume doesn't have any internship
experience, or if they didn't look at your resume. If you do have internship
experience, then you can answer, that you do and say the same answer as the one
provided with the question, what did you learn from your internship. But if you
don't, you can simply answer that you didn't do any internship but give a good
excuse.
"Yes.
I did two internships. The first internship was for Johnson and Johnson. I
worked in the distribution team, and my second internship was for Starbucks. At
Starbucks, I had the opportunity to work on overseas venture."
"I
did one internship for IBM. I was on the development team creating applications
for business solutions."
"I
love to travel and I realized that when I start my career, I won't be able to
travel for long durations. So I used my summers to travel a lot. I spent one
summer in Europe for 2 months. I spent another summer traveling between China
and some South East Asian countries, and finally, I took a road trip through
the United States."
Traveling is not a bad answer. It is not as good as doing an internship, but
definitely better than nothing. It is definitely not a wasted summer. Also, if
the internship was useless and generic, then the interviewer will not remember
this answer as a good answer. So it didn't do any good. In this case, traveling
could be better because the example I gave is significant and interesting.
Something different always stands out more. |