If you didn't get the job you want...

But they offered you something else would you take it?

I'm in university and I applied for this position in an organization. I needed some stuff to pad my resume but I also like what position had to offer.

In a nutshell I didn't get it but they offered me something else. There's no money involved, so should I still take it or get something else.

I went from interacting with people with basically doing computer stuff Like managing the facebook group and reminding members about events and what not.

There's no money involved

Dawn685

No.

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There's no money involved

Dracargen

No.

at the college level, experience is far more important than making money. You got the rest of your life to use your degree to make you 50+ thousand a year, a summer or two of unpaid internships, so long as the experience is good, would not be to your detriment.

Lord knows if I took an unpaid internship during school I would be making over 50k and I Would have a job, but instead I worked as a cook to pay my way through school and now I am having a tough time getting a job.

[QUOTE="Dracargen"][QUOTE="Dawn685"]

There's no money involved

mrbojangles25

No.

at the college level, experience is far more important than making money. You got the rest of your life to use your degree to make you 50+ thousand a year, a summer or two of unpaid internships, so long as the experience is good, would not be to your detriment.

Lord knows if I took an unpaid internship during school I would be making over 50k and I Would have a job, but instead I worked as a cook to pay my way through school and now I am having a tough time getting a job.

No no it's not an internship it's this non-profit organization in which university students help high school students in terms of education and what not. I was planning to become a career manager and talking with high school students and working with them, now I just manage the computer stuff like facebook, and reminder e-mails and talking to other organizations

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"][QUOTE="Dracargen"][QUOTE="Dawn685"]

There's no money involved

Dawn685

No.

at the college level, experience is far more important than making money. You got the rest of your life to use your degree to make you 50+ thousand a year, a summer or two of unpaid internships, so long as the experience is good, would not be to your detriment.

Lord knows if I took an unpaid internship during school I would be making over 50k and I Would have a job, but instead I worked as a cook to pay my way through school and now I am having a tough time getting a job.

No no it's not an internship it's this non-profit organization in which university students help high school students in terms of education and what not. I was planning to become a career manager and talking with high school students and working with them, now I just manage the computer stuff like facebook, and reminder e-mails and talking to other organizations

meh, same diff....unpaid work yielding good experience = internship, be it official or unofficial lol.

Either way, you can really tailor that stuff to your needs in the future. Writing a good resume is about extending the truth as far as it can go without actually lying.

So while you are just using facebook to, idunno, keep in touch with people? you can write on your resume:

"managed computer software while correlating resources online to establish a larger userbase for my organisation"

Instead of saying you sent out reminder emails, you can say you"

"kept track of daily goings-ons and reminded management and customers of important dates and meetings"

See what I mean?

You are in college now. While you need to start thinking about your future (i.e. doing internships, looking at future careers, etc) you dont actually need to act on your future right away. There are lots of good loans for students that I wish I took up on just so I could get an internship relavent to my degree, but I wanted to get out of college debt free and now I regret it.

In short, get all the relavent experience you can before you graduate, whether it pays or not.