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My Biggest Resume Mistake Was Having TOO MANY Internships!

2 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal narrative, the speaker recounts having completed seven internships during university and later pruning his resume and LinkedIn profile to keep only the most relevant experiences. He explains that his drive to accumulate internships stemmed from deep insecurity and desperation to secure a graduate job, leading him to fill his resume with any opportunity, even unpaid and low‑value ones. Over time he realized that a bloated list of irrelevant internships was counterproductive; the quality and relevance of experiences matter far more than sheer quantity. He describes many of the internships as horrendous, wasteful, and not educational, and advises viewers to avoid the same mistake, focusing instead on meaningful, relevant work.

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7 internships, that, that's, that's quite a bit. Yeah, it was, it was a lot. I even got to a stage where I just deleted some off my resume and my LinkedIn profile because I just thought, you know what, this is not relevant. I'd rather keep the ones that are more important or more relevant in that space, right? And yeah, it was too many. I was so desperate is definitely the correct word. I was so desperate to just make connections and fill up my literal resume with as much as I could that would then set me up to get a grad job. Mm-hmm. Because I was so insecure during uni and anxious, especially when it came to success and good grades. Mm-hmm. That I thought, okay, the more I do, the better. But big life lesson, quality over quantity. Some of those were horrendous and a waste of time and unpaid and didn't teach me anything. So would not recommend that to anybody.