I might have missed it, but I didn't find a decent browse interface. If I'm starting out searching for internships, I don't necessarily know any search terms to jump off from. An idle browsing of all available positions would make things easier from the intern side.
I just launched a pet project with a few friends and I'd love to hear any feedback.
It's a website that connects students looking for internships and employers providing them. The focus is advertising/marketing industries, but we're looking to expand into other verticals in the future.
The graphics and layout of your site look great :)
I have a suggestion that might be of use: reduce the content on your main page so that the user can tell in 15 seconds or less what your site does, and how to get started.
Some examples:
- removing "Search Employers, Internships, and Reviews"
and the middle search box, while leaving the one on the top
- Removing "My Portfolio", should be shown only when logged in
- Moving "Contact Us" to the bottom of the page
- Removing "recent reviews" and replacing it with "From the Blogs
- Adding some big buttons for "Students" and "Employers" (your main audience)
Too much off-message content right up front. "Freedom from coffee and copies" and "new and improved" are the two messages you hit me with on first impression, which loses me. Your message seems to be, "YouIntern.com brings students and employers together." That's what needs to be in 1000 point font. You should follow up with your main point of differentiation, i.e. "by crawling 8 bazillion thingers and having a team of monkeys sort them to match your skills".
Thinking about this one further -- I might change it to be more targeted at employers. I think they're the harder group to get on board, and if you get them, and the right ones, then the students will follow.
Maybe something like, "Great minds, at a special, introductory price." ;-)
This looks great! I've been trying to find a good internship lately. I go to Northeastern, and while the internships in our co-op program are usually far above "copies and coffee", they're not always too appealing :)
Looks good - My comments are more a matter of style, so take with a pinch of salt...
1. I like the logo, but I don't like it against the blue. It washes out the colors. I'd change the background to something more complimentary - or maybe instead of a drop shadow a white glow would work (not sure without seeing it :)
2. I don't like the byline "Freedom from Coffee and Copies". You'll turn off the set: "I had the best times fetching coffee" and "I show them the ropes to X, why shouldn't they get me coffee" and "If they can't be bothered getting coffee, they aren't motivated enough to be an intern at supercompany Y"... etc... etc... This is even if they have a great position - people can be stubborn on principle. I'd save it as a byline for the "Interns" section.
3. I initially didn't like the name, which is never really a big deal, but I liked it when I saw the "you-intern" blue/red logo. You could also emphasize the three colors if you went to "you-in-tern" - which is also a neat play on words.
I would suggest sliding div#Search down for options, or maybe just adding a "expand" button (on http://new.youintern.com/search/filter) for showing the content of the list-items corresponding to search (employers|internships|reviews)?
After doing a search that suggested that I "try choosing 'include old results'", it was entirely non-obvious to me that I needed to mouseover the checkboxes, and the options under "employers" went past the bottom of my browser window (firefox 3.0.1).
Other than that, this looks like a really awesome service. I'm bookmarking it in case I actually end up going to college in a year or so in the hopes that it grows into what it has potential to grow into.
Good luck, and thanks for launching a project that has immediate practical use to a lot of people.
I'd change around the search box. The main one in the middle of the page is too low. And the top search box is too boring.
"Search Employers, Internships, and Reviews" to bring people to Advanced Search is too wordy
Remove the whole blogs part of the main page...it takes up way too much time and you gain absolutely nothing from it.
I'd also add a browse functionality which at least lets people look at all the jobs in a particular field. i.e. Finance, Medicine etc.
Your actual internship description needs to be full from the start. You take up 90% of the space just to tell them the company name, and then for actual description you ask them to click "Show full info"
Overall the site looks good. I would like to see the average ratings for each company. When I check out Raytheon I have to read each individual review to find the ratings.It would also be nice to limit the searches to fields, like engineering, on the initial search.
Yes! I'm going to school in Troy, NY, which the geolocation figured out, but I'm looking for internships in Silicon Valley (where I spend my summers). I can't search by location, and I can't figure out how to browse past the first 10. Makes finding internships kind of hard.
I'm looking for an internship too, so I signed up! I'm a Grad Student at San Jose State, so hopefully I shouldnt have too much trouble finding programming internships..
superficially speaking the logo is great but can i suggest you consider the layout of the page. thing is the search seems oddly re-contextualized down there like it's an example of a search rather than the real deal. at first blush i thought it was a gif of the search you "could perform".
