All college students should be required to do internships

All college students should be required to do internships. If I could start over, I would work unpaid internships as a freshman and sophomore. Then I would apply for paid internships as a junior or senior. If I needed money, then I would work a part-time job while I did the internships. Working at an internship will ultimately help students in the long run compared to working at a job that has no relation to their major.

When I graduated with a B. A. in English, I really felt lost in looking for jobs and trying to pin down what career I wanted. If I had done more internships, I would have known more about what direction I wanted to go in. I applied for jobs ranging from sales to human resources and never got past the interview because I didn't know anything about the careers.

All college seniors should be required to attend a seminar given by the career resources center of their college where they can work on their resumes and interviewing. I had trouble making it to the career resources center at Metropolitan State University because it didn't have evening hours or weekend hours. The couple times I did go in to look for internships, I didn't receive much help. Or maybe I just didn't know the right questions to ask. I should have come straight out and said, "Help me. I'm lost."