When asked what
she does at her internship, Andi responds, «I'm learning to be a professional tennis teacher, or a professional tennis player.»
The results provide valuable insight in terms of what college students
do at their internships, what they are looking for in an internship, and how they got their internships.
Not exact matches
A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that unpaid interns were no better
at landing job offers than those who
did no
internship; and unpaid interns were paid an average $ 1,366 less in their first job than students who started cold.
But best of all, from the interns» perspective, if you don't have the means or the intention to hire any of your interns, you should
at least connect some of the most promising candidates with colleagues in your field and help them find their footing after they conclude their
internship.
Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study
at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid)
internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.
With a little help from her uncle's connections with the US government, Markle
did a six - week
internship at the State Department, working as a junior press officer
at an American embassy in Argentina.
Every boss of a summer intern should make an appointment with her her intern to
do a mid-
internship check up and it should begin with the following question: «What
did you expect to
do or learn
at this
internship that hasn't happened?»
«Here you can work condensed work weeks; we have many [employees] that
do part time; we have an
internship program that focuses on moms reentering the workforce,» said Chrissy Toskos, vice president of campus recruiting
at Prudential Financial, the 140 - year - old insurance company that uses nontraditional work schedules as one way to compete for millennial talent.
Sherry Phillips: I have a master's degree in art conservation from Queen's University, and when I finished I had
done one of my
internships [
at the AGO].
We
do this by matching thirty - six extraordinary women per year with purpose - driven, paid
internships at leading aviation and space companies and organizations and with senior and executive level mentors.
Because Jeff wanted to gain some practical experience in working with sexually abused children, he asked if he could
do an
internship at BUMCC.
How could he
do his
internship under a supervisor who was not really a Christian
at all?
A few summers ago I was in New York for a while when I
did an
internship at Food52.
These recipes are so reminiscent of the food I was helping prepare
at Campanile when I
did my
internship there for culinary school.
When I was
doing an
internship at Chez Panisse I really had a hard time not to eat them by the bucket, so delicious.
I first
did a a finance
internship with Singapore Press Holdings, before embarking onto a global data
internship at Bloomberg, Singapore, and just before graduation, I signed a contract with Standard Chartered Bank to participate in its Finance International Graduate Program.
And he
did so with a social conscience: In 1987, 15 years before the establishment of the Rooney Rule (requiring NFL teams to interview
at least one minority candidate for head coaching vacancies), Walsh took the lead in an NFL
internship program for minority coaches, bringing prospective assistants into training camp each year and giving them significant responsibility.
In three years
at UC Santa Barbara (from which he graduated in 1986 with a communications degree) he
did seven radio
internships.
After graduation with a D.D.S. degree, he
did a one - year hospital
internship at Montifiore Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA..
Over this past summer, opportunities presented for Avianna (my step - daughter) to
do a PRISM
Internship at Texas Tech studying bats and for Rainey (my son) to go to Eastern Germany for a GAPP exchange.
.2 of my nieces got scholarships to colleges and one nephew is currently
doing an
internship at the CDC.
Once I
did a [school foodservice]
internship I realized this was something I'd like to be involved with; I applied for a job straight out of college and began managing
at an elementary school.»
Toward the end of the course, students
do two - week
internships at institutional kitchens and cafeterias in and around Chicago, such as
at Bank One Plaza, the Drake Hotel, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Shedd Aquarium.
A supported
internship is one type of study programme specifically aimed
at young people aged 16 to 24 who have a statement of SEN, an LDA, or an EHC plan, who want to move into employment and need extra support to
do so.
5 years ago I was only 19... so I was in my second year of college studying science and
at Disney World
doing an
internship program with them!
For Mackenzi VanSlyke of Lee Center, her
internship at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) has provided her more than just something to
do this summer, it's provided her with real world experience she will use in her future career.
After completing her degree she went off and started a Masters in Aerospace Engineering
at University of Laval where, in 1997, she
did an
internship at the Canadian Space Agency.
I
did an
internship in the tool - mark and firearm department, and although I really liked the work there, when I graduated there were no vacancies
at the laboratory.
If you
do not know anyone in the city personally, consult people
at the place where you will be
doing your
internship.
The
internship experience didn't stop
at the National Academies program.
During his final year, Bourtourault
did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month
internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.
Of those, seven have returned to school for doctoral or professional degrees; the rest are employed full - time, about a third
at organizations where they
did internships.
You can become a consultant on a film,
do an
internship (through AAAS, National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel, or
at your local public television station, for example), or even go to film school.
She pursued a Ph.D. in robotic space exploration
at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and
did internships with NASA's Ames Research Center.
Many of his college friends knew his secret, but few
did at the company where he was
doing his
internship.
Also check with your home institution's career centre or with your funding body to see if they have an existing program — or
at least experience in working with students who
did internships.
Michelle Reeve knew from the start that she was interested in
doing an
internship as part of her Ph.D. training in spider locomotion
at the Royal Veterinary College.
Borniquel has since
done two 3 - month
internships, one
at Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB and the other
at Stockholm - Uppsala Life Science.
Bunn
did an
internship at POST during her Ph.D. and later took a job there.
Many postdocs use
internships, as Andringa
did, as bridges to jobs outside research, but some continue on as researchers and are better rounded for it, says David Taylor, who, after
doing a postdoc
at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), completed an
internship in the hospital's administration department.
In 2011, she
did a summer
internship at Nike's research labs in Beaverton, Oregon, to learn more about shoe design.
For the final year of his new degree, Franco
did a 1 - year
internship in the Laboratory Animal Science group
at IBMC, led by Anna Olsson.
Tamer excelled
at Cal Poly and even
did an
internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a project to improve a synthetic aperture radar antenna.
Lenggenhager heard first - hand accounts of various kinds of bodily illusions while
doing internships at Zurich university hospitals as she trained to become a neuropsychologist.
I was
at a transition point when the
internship came up: My technician position was in the teeter - totter space of termination if the granting agency didn't renew the laboratory funding.
Butler advises graduate students interested in industry to
do two things: complete an
internship at a company and make sure that they attend critical conferences related to drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics — such as the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics.
The only negative aspects of Tullis's
internship experience
at Michigan were that she was paid as a postdoc and she had to explain the label «intern» when dealing with members of the business world, where an intern is typically an undergrad
doing a summer project.
Just make sure you don't get taken advantage of — like the sports science student who took an
internship at Chelsea Football Club only to be accidently shot with an air rifle by player Ashley Cole.
With this goal in mind, Smith
did a summer
internship at the New York Medical Examiners Office while an undergraduate
at Pennsylvania State University.
Robinson, who
did an
internship at Dow Chemical, still stays in contact with her mentor there.