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> I have a feeling that if you started telling medicine/architecture/engineering/science departments that they need to start teaching students about entrepreneu
by slavik81 11y ago
> I have a feeling that if you started telling medicine/architecture/engineering/science departments that they need to start teaching students about entrepreneurial skills, and that students need to spend their spare time working on projects and battling for internships or they'll likely remain unemployed, that you'd be laughed out of the building.
Do you know why engineering students join the Solar Car team, or EngSoc, or do internships? The fact that it looks good on a job application is almost always a component.
It's not just a small thing either. At my current university, the engineering internship program has a 70-80% participation rate.
- anjc 11y agoI shouldn't have listed "internships" above because they're a normal aspect of career development at this stage, so you're making a fair point. But take distinct extracurricular projects. Would an environmental engineer, for example, be expected to have a list of their own non-job related projects which interviewers could examine? (not just for bonus points in an interview, but as an expectation)