The Internship Common App
I’m currently slogging my way through summer internship applications and I can’t help thinking that it would be awfully nice if some organization were to develop a “common app” for summer internships à la the college common app. The amount of time I waste sorting through various applications, converting forms into PDFs and so forth is really astounding. Seems to me that if there was some sort of universal application, which you could just attach a custom cover letter to, it would save everyone–employers and applicants–quite a bit of time. All the while this would increase the number of positions an average college student could apply to and would also give employers more qualified applicants from which to choose from. Win win all around.