Forbes recently asked readers to nominate their favorite and most useful career websites.  Asking readers for nominations, Forbes received submissions for 700 different websites. The final list was just released, and we are very excited and honored to have been selected for their list of The 10 Best Websites for Your Career!

The 10 Best Websites for Your Career - #7 Internships.com

From the Forbes article:

Internships.com bills itself as the world’s largest internship marketplace where employers can post internships and get access to its internship database for free. At last count the site had nearly 60,000 postings at 25,000 companies in 8,800 cities across the U.S. The site includes paid and unpaid, full and part-time internships. One useful feature: a “Who?” button that includes a Facebook sign-in and shows which of an applicant’s Facebook friends are connected to the hiring company.

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We brought the goods this morning. Here are four great career articles we’ve seen around the Web this week.

• Business Insider lists 12 hugely successful people who started their careers as interns.
• USA Today‘s college blog explains what virtual internships are and how to get them.
• Career coach Jennifer Gresham targets seven oft-repeated pieces of job advice she says prevent people from getting promoted.
• Sitting at a desk all day isn’t so great for your health. Here are 10 ways to stay in shape during your internship.

Want to help shape the future of flight? For today’s employer 5 in 5!, we interviewed Eric Pearson, head of development programs for defense giant Northrop Grumman’s electronics division in Baltimore, Md.

Eric Pearson

1. How did you get started in the industry? How can someone who is interested in your work get started?

My dad was the engineering manager of the AWACS Radar Program in the 1970s. I managed to avoid working around him and the defense industry until I decided I needed a job where I could make money and develop an important career. So, on March 14, 1984, I decided to meet my roots as engineer. I started at the bottom delivering data and grew to become the lead for the production antenna on the Raptor F-22 Program, and now I am fortunate to serve as the sector director of development programs responsible for developing and implementing new graduate rotation, internship and co-op programs for Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems.

Designing the future technological advances in defense electronics requires experience and desire. I recommend college students seek the most relevant internships they can to learn and grow skills that will make them the most employable graduate possible upon graduation. Nothing beats experience and the knowledge that one knows where they desire to start their career upon graduation. The problems in the real world are far more difficult than the classroom studies; get the experience.

2. What’s the future of your industry or job?

Defense electronics is always going to be a major contributor to the future of the United States and the protection of the world. Many of the technological capabilities we take for granted today, like GPS, are because of government-funded development programs many years ago, and will continue for the foreseeable future.

3. What do you look for when you hire an intern or entry-level candidate?

Interns and new grads should demonstrate the following: academic preparation, relevant experiences, volunteer community service, student group leadership, Eagle scouts (or comparable experiences), teamwork, teamwork, teamwork, music or sports and excellent communication skills. We are looking for team players and well-rounded citizens.

Northrop Grumman interns attend a leadership staff ride to Gettysburg, Pa., where they walked the famous Civil War battlefield.

4. What is one thing an intern can do to make a favorable impression?

An intern should work hard, ask questions and develop mentoring relationships during the internship opportunity. It’s not enough to come in 9-5 and disappear when the ‘school bell’ rings.

5. Can you share a positive intern story and an intern horror story? No names needed …

Internship experiences can go both ways, no denying the possibilities. We had one intern who missed his first day because he did not bring the required documentation, took the first Friday off to go the beach for a long weekend and two weeks into the summer internship announced he was taking two weeks off for a family vacation. He ended up with the rest of the summer as vacation. On the other, more positive extreme, we have had a number of interns who have come back for multiple internships, really got involved in the work they were assigned, asked for more tasks when things were slow, and since have been converted to full-time employees upon graduation from college.

Want to learn more about joining Northrop Grumman? Visit their career site here.