Take an opportunity to integrate a career-related experience into your undergraduate education! An internship will allow you to explore the professional world and focus your career decision, while identifying your talents and abilities. Internships come in all different shapes and sizes, and vary in length, compensation, and work hours. In today's job market, employers expect to see a minimum of one internship on a student's resume by graduation.
Benefits that you will gain from an internship may include:
- Professional experience necessary to put into practice the theory and concepts you have learned in the classroom.
- Exploration of a specific job or career area to see if it meets your goals. You may have a picture in your mind's eye of your future career path. Internships can clarify whether the real job matches what you have imagined.
- Valuable contacts for future networking. The "hidden" job market has many more opportunities than what is available on the Web or in newspapers. Networking can help you win that critical first employment position.
- Sampling different working environments, including the work setting, type of employer, industry, or geographic location.
- Newly developed self-confidence and independence that you can project in both your classroom and working domains.
- Strengthening your academic program through a better use of your general and elective credits, adding additional internship credit to your transcript, and completing more hours toward graduation.
- Additional income through a paid internship.
You could be interning with:
- L Brands
- Ohio Department of Transportation
- United Way of Franklin County
- National Weather Service
- Net Jets
- CBS News (NYC)
- U.S. Department of State
- The Dispatch Broadcast Group
- The American Red Cross
- Ohio Supreme Court
Get started with your internship search:
Learn more about the Arts and Sciences Career Success Office and our programs, resources, and the Handshake system by visiting us in 100 Denney Hall. See you in the fall!