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Interviewing for a part time internship for Entry Level IT. I am a full time student Comp Sci major and wanna go into networking, servers, security, so hopefully this gets me my foot in the door. I am a terrible soft skills person and really nervous. My friends told me to print out my resume and transcripts, I will surely do that. Anybody got anything else to suggest?

Update: I got the position! I honestly didn't even prepare for it, didn't even know what the company did. The comment that talked about learning to search things up was right on, they asked me what I would do if I didn't know how to do something. I answered "looking things up, asking others, and consult documentation." The company seemed really cool and is structured pretty much like Valve Corp in that they wanted jacks of all trades and it was company owned.

Thank you for all the helpful advice. It definitely helped me out, and hopefully, it helps others out as well.

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[-] echo@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, it's a thing that happens. It's quite common for an over-qualified person to be bored, hard to work with, and just picking up a paycheck while they're looking for different work. Hiring an employee is expensive. If you can't keep them for a while and/or they're not a good fit for the team then you can be better off just leaving the position vacant.

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