InternSHARE Blends Internship Postings With Ratings
by Leena Rao on March 28, 2009

internSHARE is an all-in-one internship job and review portal where students can not only find a internship but also access the reviews of internships at companies, submitted by former interns. Internships can often be a hit or miss in terms of experience. Some companies merely make interns fetch coffee and make copies while others let interns step into the roll of a full-time junior employees. Regardless of how a company decides to handle its interns, it’s always helpful to know exactly what your role will be prior to the internship.

The site’s reviews seem fairly comprehensive, offering overviews (provided by Wikipedia) and reviews of a range of companies including Research in Motion, IBM, and Amazon.com. The site also has a feature where existing interns can post descriptions about the interview process and give prospective interns tips about the interviews. Another cool feature is the ability to use Facebook Connect to integrate Facebook friends and features into internSHARE.

internSHARE, which is student-run, recently merged with Coop.com, another Canadian-based internship database, boosting its users from to 8900 and creating over 2400 reviews for companies. Its seems that the site is slightly Canadian-centric. Most of the mid-size and smaller companies reviewed are Canadian based. And the job data base, whose listings are pretty paltry (there are currently only 6 internship listings, all in Canada), needs to be expanded in order for the site to really serve as a all-in-one solution to prospective interns.

InternshipRatings provides a comprehensive database of U.S. internship reviews but doesn’t feature internship listings. InternshipIN and AfterCollege just offer internship listings. I think internSHARE has a good idea in trying to be a comprehensive database for students but needs to add internships in a variety of areas to appeal to U.S. students as well. And the site needs to offer more than 6 prospective jobs to college students.


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  • I lead a start up and recently wrote about working with interns. The post is helpful for those thinking about adding interns to their team. Also if you are an intern, see the down-loadable check list to help interns be the best they can be. http://www.oddp...m/blog/158.html

  • Looks like that should be Coop Rankings and not Coop.com :)

  • create your public profile on linked4jobs and promote the profile to Friends,HR Managers Recruiters,Professionals.

    check the sample profile:
    http://www.link...m/nagagiri.aspx

  • There seems to be a lot of internship finders/rating sites popping up lately. All are student run. I think it shows the frustration by students not finding solid internships.

    The question is who will hit that magic formula for the site.

  • I’m sure this will ruffle feathers. Having interviewed over 25 interns in the past 30 days, many enter the work world clueless. Some is not their fault, they have professors who have never been in the non teaching/business world and some are just lazy students. If these intern sites are truly to help interns succeed, they need to sprinkle in a dose of business will different than class, take advantage of the challenge, don’t whine. 2 other worthy notes: mid-life interns http://www.oddp.../blog/1307.html
    and University of dreams, has built a venture on internship, see in Free Biz Find http://www.oddp...urces/index.php

  • I love this website.
    I am a student, and I ll be using it!

  • There are so many intern sites now the space seems too fragmented. Someone out to buy a bunch of them and merge them all.

    Anyway here’s a comprehensive pdf file with most intern sites.

    http://www.secr...uide-to-finding

  • This website will definitely help college students find a good quality internship. Interns don’t want to waste their time making copies and coffee. They want to have hands on experience and actually learn something in the process. College students don’t have much time so they should use it wisely when choosing an internship. It’s too bad this site didn’t come out a couple of years earlier.

  • I already tried this in April 2000. I guess timing wasn’t right. :-P

  • Great site. All the innovation in this market comes from young people and unfortunately they don’t have the relationships with HR people to make this work. It is going to take a while or a larger player will move in, but things will change for the better. Great site and best of luck to you.

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