Ask HN: How do you get Internships with no work experience but cool projects?
The article provides tips for securing internships without prior work experience. It emphasizes the importance of networking through career fairs and industry events to make connections. Additionally, it advises on how to present oneself professionally and follow up after conversations with potential employers.
- ▪Attending in-person career fairs can help you connect with potential employers.
- ▪Networking at industry-related events allows you to discuss your projects and interests with professionals.
- ▪A well-formatted resume that reflects your voice and includes relevant skills can enhance your chances of getting an internship.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273324 |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 00:03:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T00:37:40.913Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T00:37:40.913Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RJ9quRsQwH4U · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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1. Go to an in-person career fair hosted by your school or county.2. Go to a Meetup or Luma events for your industry of interest near your city and talk to real people about what their company does and how your experience making projects relates.3. Catch up with people you know in real life from your studies about the places they or their contacts work at and your interest in an internship.It probably starts with some kind of connection.Then when you talk to a person at the company who needs/wants an intern (the "hiring manager"), you need them to like you. Be nice to them. Listen attentively. Be professional, and also be yourself.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.