{"id":2860,"date":"2017-02-13T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:30:30","slug":"top-20-fields-for-internships-get-your-skills-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/top-20-fields-for-internships-get-your-skills-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Fields for Internships: Get Your Skills On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><em>Re-posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> Education Life 2\/3\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">This is high season for securing a summer internship, an essential talent pipeline for employers and steppingstone for students. Postings peak in March, with 30,443 advertised positions in March 2016 (if you don\u2019t have anything by May, you\u2019re probably out of luck). But before sending that r\u00e9sum\u00e9, take a good hard look at what\u2019s on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cEmployers are being a lot more specific about the skills they expect from interns,\u201d says Scott Bittle, a spokesman at <a title=\"The website.\" href=\"http:\/\/burning-glass.com\/\">Burning Glass Technologies<\/a>, a research company that visits more than 40,000 websites a day to collect employer postings for internships. For example, students are expected to show up versed in particular software. But the top crossover skill: project management, which requires people skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Burning Glass\u2019s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/burning-glass.com\/research\/internships-2016\/\">report<\/a>, released on Feb. 5, includes the top fields for internships according to the number of online postings from September 2015 to October 2016, as well as the five most in-demand \u201cskills\u201d (that is, experience gained on the job or in the classroom).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/03\/education\/edlife\/top-20-fields-for-internships-get-your-skills-on.html?ref=your-money&amp;_r=2&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=botw_20170212&amp;utm_source=blueshift&amp;utm_content=botw_20170212_a&amp;bsft_eid=93466a95-e896-4a81-b9b2-cf5fffdcef06&amp;bsft_clkid=2c8830cb-5d05-4adb-b126-1e79a8d57d25&amp;bsft_uid=cdb818f3-fbe0-4a30-8137-2d1f7c3e2d56&amp;bsft_mid=ff566359-8024-4818-83ef-853a8e8dc6f6\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a> about the Top 20 Fields&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-posted from The New York Times Education Life 2\/3\/2017 This is high season for securing a summer internship, an essential talent pipeline for employers and steppingstone for students. Postings peak in March, with 30,443 advertised positions in March 2016 (if you don\u2019t have anything by May, you\u2019re probably out of luck). 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