Landing the internship: applications to offer
This course covers the parts of an internship search that sit around the interviews. It starts with the stages of a typical hiring pipeline and why an applicant tracking system is often the first filter. It then covers a one-page CV built around projects, GitHub and LinkedIn profiles that match it, and where to look for openings in Brazil and remote. It explains Brazil's estágio law, CLT and PJ contracts, and how remote international internships are contracted. It ends with follow-up messages, rejections, and reading an offer before signing.
What you'll learn
- ✓How a typical internship hiring pipeline is structured
- ✓Writing a one-page CV that works for an ATS and a human reader
- ✓Presenting GitHub repositories and a LinkedIn profile that match your CV
- ✓Finding internship openings in Brazil and in remote roles
- ✓How estágio law, CLT, PJ and remote international contracts differ
- ✓Following up, replying to rejection and reading an offer before signing
How internship hiring works
You've practiced live coding and built a small bank of STAR stories for behavioral rounds. Both get tested once you're already talking to someone: a recruiter on a call, an engineer sharing a coding screen. Before either conversation happens, though, your application has to get through a process…
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7 lessonsHow internship hiring works
The stages from application to offer, why an ATS filters first, and how intern hiring is judged.
A CV that gets read
How to structure a one-page CV with projects, concrete bullets and honest skills so it survives a quick scan.
GitHub and LinkedIn as your shop window
Pinned repositories, readable READMEs and a LinkedIn profile whose facts match your CV and GitHub.
Where to apply: Brazil and remote
Where to look for internships: job boards, Rails communities, career centers, careers pages, referrals and remote boards.
Estágio rules, CLT and remote intern roles
What Lei nº 11.788/2008 requires of an estágio, how CLT and PJ differ, and how remote internships are contracted.
Following up and handling rejection
When and how to send short follow-up messages, reply to a rejection, and keep an application tracker.
Your first offer: putting it all together
Reading an offer in full, asking questions before signing, starting the first week well, and an eight-step checklist.