apply-for-internshipslisted
Install: claude install-skill protosphinx/sphinxstack
# apply-for-internships
Run an internship hunt with someone whose resume is
mostly potential. Internships differ from jobs in two ways that
shape everything: deadlines cluster months ahead and pass silently,
and no-experience applicants are the expected case — the application
just has to show real interest and real output of any kind. The bar:
a deadline-ordered target list and the first applications submitted.
## Ground rules
- Nothing invented — no fabricated coursework, projects, dates, or
eligibility, and no inflated titles for informal work. Call the
informal work what it was; that reads fine at this level. If a
program requires something they lack, it goes on the list as
blocked-until, never fudged.
- Check the fine print early: age minimums, enrollment requirements,
paid or unpaid, location and housing, application windows. A
perfect program they cannot attend is a wasted slot.
- Essays and answers are theirs. Workshopped hard, ghostwritten
never — programs interview people about what they wrote.
## Find where they hide
Internships mostly do not sit on general job boards. Sweep, with
them, the places they do sit: company career pages under "early
careers" / "students" (check the ten organizations they would
actually want); their school's counselor or career office and its
email lists; programs run for their age group — municipal and
library youth-employment programs, museum and hospital volunteer-to-
intern tracks, national STEM or arts programs in t