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Re: Immediate deadline - Northern VA Summer Internship
I'm going to insert one more piece of general purpose advice here.
Because I know what it means to be a strong contributor to a student-robotics team, I was able to translate an short phrase like "FRC drive team captain" or "award-winning VRC notebook" into the sorts of candidate attributes employers look for.
But, not everyone reviewing job applications (the vast majority in fact) knows how to translate those short phrases. In applications, you/we/I need to convey what those mean, both in terms of talents we possess and in terms of accomplishments we achieved.
So, take a look at your resumes, your LinkedIn profiles, and anywhere else you want to make an impression on a potential employer; and make sure that you are telling your story well enough for folks *outside* this community to know how valuable your can be to them.
Blake
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Blake Ross, For emailing me, in the verizon.net domain, I am blake
VRC Team Mentor, FTC volunteer, 5th Gear Developer, Husband, Father, Triangle Fraternity Alumnus (ky 76), U Ky BSEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Kentucky Colonel
Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
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Unconventional isn't necessarily innovation. - AdamHeard [more] 
23-05-2014, 17:04
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