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Personal projects can work, but internships give you a foot in the door in a company. Do you know why you were not offered an internship? Perhaps it's simply be

Personal projects can work, but internships give you a foot in the door in a company. Do you know why you were not offered an internship? Perhaps it's simply because people assume that you want more money than the typical internship provides, but... Since you're a mechanical engineer, you probably have a network there. Couldn't you ask one of them for an internship? Anything from an internship at a CNC builder to a custom system to organize drawings to a plugin for a CAD tool?

mightymustard 10y ago
In general, replies were mostly that there was some competition and they decided not to continue with my application... but I have no idea how much of it is the usual form letter reply. I moved here for studies, so what little network I had is back at my home country. I want to stay in Estonia after graduation and work here for a while, so I'm not sure how much an internship back in Turkey can help with that, if at all.
- loumf 10y ago
  But, there's a lot you could probably do for a local shop -- many have IT departments. Try to network in with an informational interview (cold email the head of IT of anything related to M. E. and offer to buy them coffee for some career advice)
- Altaer 10y ago
  I don't think it really matters where the internship is. I completed my internships in places that I did not want to move after college. It was more about getting the experience and having that experience on my resume. I wouldn't suggest limiting yourself to internships in the place you want to ultimately end up.