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Let's just pretend you're back in college and trying to get an internship at NBC. You enter this crazy contest in which you're asked to create a video clip that lays out why you're the best person for the job. What would you say? Check out the semi-fiinalists for NBC and several other big companies - part of something called "the ultmate internship contest" that is being sponsored by Columbia Pictures. (My pick is Jennifer S. from Huntington, West Virginia.) Columbia is releasing "The Pursuit of Happyness," in which Will Smith plays a single father who starts his life over again at a brokerage internship. Morgan Stanley, The Gap and Yahoo are among the other companies participating.

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