Hello CCB Majors:
The start of the Fall 2012 semester is almost upon us. For those of you who are interested in doing a Fall 2012 internship, there is still time, however you must act quickly. Students with at least 60 credits earned and a 2.5 GPA can earn credit from an internship experience by having the internship approved by me and completing the semester long CCB internship class. That class is delivered through myCourses. To read more about the CCB internship program, visit: http://www.umassd.edu/charlton/internship/
Of course, the first step in doing an internship for credit is to land an approved internship. The CCB Internship Blog (http://www.businessinternships.blogspot.com/) carries posts of open internships and interested students should follow that blog by bookmarking it in your browser and visiting it often or by signing up for its email alerts. Recent entries (and still open positions) to the blog include the following:
Marketing and Sales Internship at Emerald Health Patient Care Simplified
Sales and Marketing Intern at a local manufacturer
Paid PR Internship in Johnston, RI
Internal Audit Internship at Hasbro (Hasbro also is advertising IT internships)
Alex & Anni Internships, Cranston RI
Rockport Brand Marketing & PR Intern (Canton, MA)
Please note that the the Southcoast Hospital Group continues to take applications from prospective interns and will attempt to match your background with the business side of running a larhe health care company. Students can apply directly online: http://www.southcoast.org/jobs/interns-application.html
Or you can send your resume as an attachment to an email. If you choose that route - send it to Tania Picard at: PicardT@southcoast.org . Southcoast is the largest employer in the region and although these internships are initially unpaid, they could lead to paid opportunities or full-time jobs with Southcoast down the road.
I will continue to post opportunities as they come in during the next couple of weeks. Students interested in completing an internship during the Fall semester should keep checking the internship blog. In addition, students are encouraged to submit internship proposals for approval to me at: mgriffin@umassd.edu
I have also printed up some copies of a booklet that I wrote called: How to Land an Excellent Internship. Copies are available at my office - CCB318. There is a supply in the box on my door. Please take one if you are interested. It may give you a few ideas. You must use a diversified approach to finding a great internship. I also encourage all CCB majors to visit David LePage (dlepage1@umassd.edu) at the UMD Career Development Center to have your resume critiqued and to get tips on how to search for internships and the steps you need to be taking to position yourself for a successful job search. Talk to faculty, family and friend about your desire to do an internship. Master the art of searching the Internet for opportunities. The Career Development Center can help with that also.
I suggest that all students SUBSCRIBE TO AN EMAIL ALERT SERVICE that can tell you when an internship posting has been made on the web. I subscribe to one through a website called Indeed.com (www.indeed.com) and it has been quite fruitful. Another service that we have had good luck with is Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com). These services send me an email once a day based on the keywords that I enter. For example, I receive an email alert for any web job posting that includes the words: “Internships in Massachusetts.” As a result, I have been able to alert our business students to internship openings with companies such as State Street Bank, Proctor and Gamble, the New England Patriots, Nike, Reebok, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, just to name a few. Students who respond quickly to these email alerts have had good luck landing internships.
Learn how to do advance searching with these sites. For example, with Simply Hired you can incorporate filters such as:
• Keywords found anywhere in a job posting
• Keywords found in job titles
• Locations based on a certain number of miles (radius) from a particular city (5, 10, 15, 25, 50, and 100 miles)
• Freshness of the posting such as postings since your last visit to the site, last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days etc.
• Company size (based on number of employees and/or revenues)
Finally, although school begins on September 5, 2012 and the add/drop period ends on September 11, 2012, I can get waivers to add students into the internship course probably as late as September 25th. Therefore, you still have about a month to land an internship-for-credit for Fall 2012. They count as a business elective. Please become familiar with the rules and regulations of our program by visiting: http://www.umassd.edu/charlton/internship/
