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May 7, 2026
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How students with zero experience are landing internship interviews in 2026.
They're not applying through portals.
Sana Yousef
Writing at JobInDemand
The portal-only path is collapsing for entry-level roles.
The four-message system
We taught the cohort a simple sequence.
The students who treated their search like a sales pipeline beat the ones who treated it like a lottery.
The artifact is the unlock
- For PM roles: a teardown of one feature.
- For design roles: a 90-second Loom.
- For data roles: one chart.
- For engineering: a small PR-style writeup.
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