Q: I recently accepted an internship, which begins at the same time as a deadline for another program I am applying to. Should I include the internship on my résumé, even though I won’t have started working yet and don’t have specifics on what kind of stories I’ll be covering? The benefit of including it, though, is giving the reviewers an idea of what I’m doing now.
Rasha
A: You can certainly include an internship you have been accepted into but have not begun. Just be up-front about it.
It is rather like saying when you will graduate from college.
You could do it just by putting down the name of the paper, the start and end dates (which would presumably be in the future.) You could also make it clear with your wording: “I have been accepted for an internship at this XXX,000-circulation newspaper.â€)
