薩拉?辛德羅夫：創辦專業實習網站

機構：Intern Sushi

????27歲的薩拉?辛德羅夫是Intern Sushi網站的創始人兼CEO，對于枯燥的實習生工作，她深有體會。“人們說我泡的紅茶簡直無敵了。”她也很清楚，要讓電影、電視、時尚和體育行業那些鐵石心腸的老板看一眼你的簡歷，必須得有“內線”幫忙才行。

????Intern Sushi的建立可以幫助大部分抱負不凡的求職者們，在求職過程中占據先機。實習崗位求職者可以更有創意地推銷自己，比如發布視頻和其他媒體文件，而不是投遞簡歷或求職信。求職者可以免費成為網站普通會員，但高級會員（高級會員特權包括提前得知實習機會，并且申請次數不受限）每個月的會費是8.99美元。在十二月份網站成立時簽訂合約的2,600家公司均可免費獲得該網站的服務，部分機構甚至將該網站作為招聘實習生（有薪實習或無薪實習）的唯一途徑，艾倫?德杰尼勒斯秀（The Ellen DeGeneres Show）便是其中之一。目前，公司正在跟蹤調查由實習轉變為長期正式工作的崗位數量。

????Intern Sushi建議求職者“挑剔一點”。也就是說，不要為了讓自己的履歷看起來體面而接受某份工作。目前，網站共有20,000名用戶，遍及美國15個城市，已有1,000多名用戶找到了工作。網站未來的目標是擴張到全美。

Shara Senderoff

Organization: Intern Sushi

????Shara Senderoff, the 27-year-old founder and CEO of the website Intern Sushi, knows what it's like to do scutwork as an intern. "I was told I made the world's best iced tea." She also knows that getting employers in the hard-to-crack fields of film, television, fashion, and sports to even look at your resume often requires connections on the inside.

????Intern Sushi's setup helps the most ambitious applicants get a leg up in the application process. Prospective interns submit videos and other media instead of resumes and cover letters, giving applicants a chance to sell themselves more creatively. Applicants can join the site for free, but premium membership (which gives you early access to internship openings and unlimited application privileges) costs $8.99 a month. The service is free for the 2,600 companies that have signed on since the site's December launch, and some outfits -- like The Ellen DeGeneres Show -- have begun to hire interns (both paid and unpaid) exclusively through the site. The company is also looking into tracking how many internships turn into long-term jobs.

????Intern Sushi advises applicants to "Be picky"; in other words, they shouldn't just go for jobs that will look good on a resume. It has placed over 1,000 of its 20,000 users in 15 cities, and it's about to go national.