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Internships
Internships offer students a chance to get “hands-on” experience while working for a semester or summer in a field related to their major. Internships often offer experience beyond clerical duties. Recruiters usually look for students with some experience in the field in which they will be working. Internships have proven to be great networking opportunities which often lead to future employment opportunities. Internships can be paid or unpaid, can be credit-bearing or not, are fairly structured, and can take place over a summer, in place of school in the fall or winter, or part-time while still in school. There are many resources available to those who are searching for an internship. Online resources, printed resources, and human resources all provide valuable information about internship possibilities.
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Keys to an Internship
Clarify your goals, priorities, and objectives. Are you willing to take an unpaid internship for the experience? What experiences are you seeking? If you have no prior experience, an unpaid internship may lead to paid experiences in the future.
Use your network. Often the best sources of information are your departmental faculty and academic advisors. Many departments have established relationships with organizations that hire interns on a routine basis.
Keep using your network! Let people know you are seeking an intern experience. Be specific about what you’re searching for. Talk to friends who have been successful in obtaining internships themselves and ask what methods they used and found successful.
Create your own opportunities. Research organizations at which you are interested in interning, whether or not they are known to have a formal internship program. Although many large organizations have more formalized programs, small organizations can offer wonderful experiences as well…you just have to ask!
Explore professional organizations. Campus “branches” of professional organizations in your field (e.g., Society for Human Resource Management) can put you in contact with unadvertised positions.
Utilize the Chamber of Commerce. They generally maintain exhaustive lists of local organizations and can provide a good lead when researching companies that may have intern opportunities.
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Find an Internship
The Career Development Center and Academic Departments frequently post advertisements for intern positions. Begin your search process early and check back frequently!
The UIS Career Development Center uses
UIS-SUCCESS to advertise available positions.
Click on the UIS-SUCCESS logo to login
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Learn more about Internship Opportunities, go to http://www.uis.edu/careerservices/jobs/internship_opp.html
Learn more about the UIS Applied Study Term, go to http://www.uis.edu/appliedstudy/
For a list of academic departments, go to http://www.uis.edu/academics/internships.html.
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Internship Opportunities
To explore additional opportunities, check out the links below and don’t forget about VAULT and Career Search for additional sources of internships.
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Tools for Internships
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Additional Resources
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