If it was me, I would clearly label them as internships, apply for jobs with 3+ years of experience requirements (if this was in the USA), and tell the recruiter "I did three internships at A, B, C" and avoid saying the word "year of experience". (EDIT: avoid saying years in a call, but have the proper dates on resume itself)
in the USA market right now there are so many bootcamps graduates that are coached to exaggerate their experience, so this is a tough questions. There's one bootcamp where the alumni often have 6 to 18 months of "software engineer" employment experience at a "company" which is actually a 6 week open source group project. As a result, a lot of jobs just ask for 4+ years of experience but when I talk to the hiring managers, they just want someone who can competently code from day 1.
So on the one hand you are doing yourself a disservice not counting the internships to their fullest extent.
u/PentatonicScaIe wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
But wouldnt you have posted your internship's timeframe on your resume? Or should you avoid doing that and just put what year you did the internship? Im trying to polish the good ol resume.
Sorry promise Im not stalking lol, I happened to read this post as well!
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Sorry I left that out, definitely put the proper dates on your resume!!
I'm a call if you are asked "How many years work experience do you have?" try saying "I have 3 internships at A, B, C" and then let the recruiter decide what they think that means to them in terms of experience. For a lot of people that might be sufficient. If you say 9 months, it sounds like you might have has one job you got fired from after only 9 months. In general I would always qualify the experience instead of just saying a number.... unless you have many many years of experience.