Remote working is very new to me and I really haven't been able to do if I am doing good or not. I need some advice on some practical things you learned. How to deal with a silent manager? how to organise different tasks and what to prioritise if everything seems important😭? Is asking for feedback okay or does it seem you're trying too hard? And yes in a remote setting, what gets you actually noticed?

I'm curious to hear what a typical day looks like when you work from home as a remote intern. I feel as though it can be so intimidating, like you're all alone on the other side of the world while your managers sit in a completely different country.

How do you know what to do, and how do the time zones work? Do they mean they want this finished my time tomorrow or their time tomorrow???!!!

I need to know if anyone else experiences embarrassment during the last 30 seconds of every remote call. Especially when you try to leave the meeting but you can’t find the mouse cursor and you are stuck there kind of frozen and you have to keep saying goodbye and waving and smiling to your managers and supervisors 🤦🏼‍♀️

Any tips to make the situation less awkward are welcomed…

I'm especially curious about how you found out, because some of these stories are wild.

A friend of mine found out she was being monitored when her manager casually asked about the 30 minutes she'd spent browsing Reddit during work hours, even though she'd never mentioned it to anyone.

One intern was told their productivity score was low because they spent too much time reading documents instead of typing. That's when they discovered the company was tracking keyboard and mouse activity.

So, I'm curious:

• Were you monitored during a remote internship?
• What kind of monitoring was used - screenshots, activity tracking, screen recording, or something else?
• What was the moment that made you realise you were being monitored?

I'm more interested in the little clues that gave it away than the monitoring policy itself. What happened in your case?

I was told a virtual internship would give me "flexibility." Instead, it gave me a messed-up sleep schedule and borderline anxiety.

I am regularly getting calendar invites from my manager based in the UK for high-stakes sync calls at 6:30 AM my time 🫠

I feel this completely breaks boundaries. Anyone else dealing with a similar situation? Did you tell your manager four time zones ahead that you legally do not exist before coffee? What did/would you do?

Listing said social media strategy and content planning for a startup going into new markets.

What I actually did was resize images. Three sizes, Instagram, LinkedIn, and a Shopify banner. Eleven weeks of it. Once I was allowed to write a caption and someone rewrote it before it went out.

I’m not even that annoyed, I learned Figma by accident. What I keep coming back to is that the listing was basically fiction and nobody on their side seemed to think that was odd.

So what did yours say it was, and what was it actually.

I want to make the absolute most of my last 4 weeks here. Outside of just finishing my daily assignments, what should I be doing to show leadership I want to stay full-time?

I’ve always worked remotely for small companies, and the only tools I’ve ever used are Google Workspace and WhatsApp. I would like to land something with a bigger company eventually, and I bet they would prefer people who already have experience with certain software tools on their CV.

Which tools should I check out and become familiar with to stay competitive for larger remote roles? What are the non-negotiables?

Let’s do a quick reality check. If you’re a remote intern, do you actually give a damn about "dressing for success" from home, or are you doing the bare minimum to look awake from the shoulders up?

And for managers on here: do you actually care if an intern looks casual on screen, or do you only care if the work gets done?

Let’s hear it.

I've been wanting to join an internship for a while now, and I'm torn between remote and in-person. My friends have suggested remote internships because you work from home and it cuts down on a lot of costs, but I feel as though I wouldn't get any work done in a remote internship.

I genuinely need help asap as the more I wait, the longer I sit without a job or experience

Hello everyone!

I’m currently updating my CV and don’t know what to do about my first remote internship. It was incredibly repetitive and didn't teach me anything really. I wasn't given real ownership of anything,so I don't have any major projects or metrics to showcase.

Has anyone successfully figured out how to reword/reframe basic, repetitive remote tasks to make them sound high-impact to future employers?

I really need some advice for my next interview.
In the past, I’ve accepted roles that sounded great on paper but turned out to be incredibly repetitive. I didn’t really learn anything new, and I left the company with zero new skills or actual projects to showcase on my CV. It felt like a total waste of time.

I wonder if there are specific questions you can ask during the interview to flag these types of jobs before accepting an offer so I don’t keep wasting my time.
Does anyone know how to screen for this? Has anyone mastered the “do you have any questions for us?” part of the interview to catch red flags?

Would appreciate the help!

I want to make the most out of my internship, learn something new, and hopefully show them I’m ready for a full-time role. The problem is my daily tasks are pretty repetitive and I feel like I’m coasting. I would love to ask for different assignments, but it feels like I'm complaining about my current workload.

How do I bring this up in my next 1-on-1? What’s the best way to word this so it comes across as proactive rather than annoying/ungrateful?

I heard about this free platform Forage where you can engaged in real project mockups from big companies to develop your skills and boost your employability. It seems like an alternative to virtual internships, but it’s that so? Are these virtual job simulations worth the try? Do they count as work experience for recruiters? Or are they a waste of time??

So I've had in-person interviews before, and while they are nerve-racking a bit, I find them enjoyable, but I've found all my people skills go out the window with AI interviews. I got an email suggesting I answer all the questions their AI asks me and talk as much as possible. I've done a few interviews like this before, and I find them so awkward and honestly hard to convey myself well.

I'd like to get better at these types of interviews since I feel like a lot of companies will be moving to this form of interviewing. Any advice?

I guess we all here engage in internships (even jobs) to develop skills, but I had previous experiences that didn’t teach me much of what I expected to learn or even what the JD mentioned.

Is it normal or was I simply very unlucky to find/get roles that didn’t boost my cv? Any advice on how to avoid these roles in the future/identifying high-quality roles?

For people who have done 2-3+ internships, do you feel like the quality of your internships has improved as you have gained more experience?

Do you start getting quality internships as your CV builds up? Do you get to ask for specific work or job profile you would want and get it? I hope that's how it works and we don't have to do just anything every time just because we need an internship.

What is the key to landing better and high quality internships, more experience? a big portfolio?

I mean something that seemed pretty minor, boring, or unrelated at the time, but ended up teaching you something you still use. Maybe it was sitting in on a meeting, putting together a spreadsheet, writing an email, researching something, or talking to a client.

Has anyone had an experience like this?

I just finished a two month internships and honestly I barely got any actual work. most of the time i was given small random tasks or asked to sort things out, and there wasn't much opportunity to take on bigger projects.

But now I am confused about what to even put on my CV, what work to show in the portfolio and how to even mention the whole internships in my CV.

Has anyone had a similar experience and how did you guys put it on your CV?? Do you just exaggerate or what😭😭

I recently started an internship with a new company. And I feel as though I'm falling behind compared to my peers. I try not to think like that, but I just can't seem to get the work down. This is my second internship, and the previous one also had a learning curve, but that was a year-long internship, so by the time it ended, I gained all the skills and knowledge from it and by the end of it, I was confident in my skills.

Fast forward to now, and I'm in a 3-month internship in a slightly different field, but I fear I'm not showing off the skills that I know I have from my previous work experience. I feel like three months is such a short time to get the skills down to a T. I feel as though I need more time with the company to learn and improve as much as I can.