I’m in uni, i haven’t had much luck with applications so far. I know that most people actually get places by having stuff to show off e.g projects, clubs and GOOD GRADES. My grades are “mid,” and I’ve had no time for clubs and projects (engineering student, supporting family, poor mental health)
Spam applying for places feels like it will do more harm than good. Am I right to feel that? Or completely wrong? One argument against might be that no human is going to see the application most of the time, so it really is a persistence game
I’ve had people cold DM me on LinkedIn for an internship. For all of them, it was pretty useless since it was obvious that I had nothing to do with the department they wanted an internship in.
That said, if someone was interested in an internship in my department, I probably would have chatted with them and set up an interview.