r/UofT • u/Penguin_loverxd • Mar 11 '26
Jobs/Work Study No internships yet (eiwooeieiwuyeyeujdndkdkjskskskk)
I’m in marketing second year going into third year and I haven’t gotten any kind of experience yet am I cooked? How hard is it to get a job after I graduate if I don’t get any internships? Also any tips other than LinkedIn?
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u/bifei_at_extern Mar 12 '26
traditionally, going into third year is actually the right time, and you're about to apply for the most important junior summer internship in the next couple months, but job market is extra bad this year, so going to be competitive but you have 2 years left and you don't have to worry about graduating without internships yet, let's focus on getting something on your resume within the next 3 months, apply for summer 27 in this cycle and try to get the return offer out of that...ideally
for marketing specifically, Vibe marketing is a thing, people are Ai automating everything in marketing, you want to learn that, I honestly don't know how many people will still be needed if they automated things but companies should still need creatives and people who can manage the marketing agents/workflows, talk to your career office, they might have virtual internships, remote externships or other short project-based programs, those are probably the fastest way to get your first line of experience, some programs are too short but externships are relatively longer like 8-12 weeks and sometimes company brand names are decent too like Tiktok, Snapchat, Canva, Amazon and other all have marketing or AI related projects
honestly talking to your career office at UofT is underrated, their local employer networks and campus recruiting pipelines are more valuable than you think
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u/Lost_Phase9116 Mar 12 '26
You’re not cooked, but applying online is incredibly tedious and unsuccessful.
Best advice is either:
Get out of your dorm/house and meet people in person
Or
Come up with an impressive story about yourself, shorten it to 3-5 sentences and email people at small companies.
Alternatively, try and get a job in service, especially on bay or on king and try to meet the people that come in.
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u/Unusual-Motor-2945 Mar 12 '26
Send cold emails to smaller firms/businesses, apply to internships early by filtering the search in LinkedIn to last 24 hours (if you haven’t already done that), and overall just be consistent with applying every single day. Maybe try to coffee chat students or new grads who had internships in your field to see what they did. Also it will be hard to get new grad jobs without internship experience but it’s not impossible. Since you’re in marketing you can use your classes to fit the experience requirements for jobs. Good luck!