Jump Start Your Career
Internships are an excellent way to extend your learning beyond the classroom and gain a head start in your chosen career field. Internships can be completed for academic credit or not for credit.
Students who wish to earn academic credit for their internship, must first obtain approval from the designated faculty member for their major. Details for earning credit for an internship in your major are outlined at the links below:
HR and Management Internships
Human Resources and Management
International Business:
Benefits of an internship for students
- Receive academic credit with prior approval from the designated faculty member for your major
- May receive financial compensation from the internship employer
- Identify a future potential employer
- Gain real world experience
- Explore careers in your major
- Building a solid network of contacts with business executives
- Gain an edge over individuals who have not had real world experience
- Provide employers with fresh perspectives and valuable skills
- Strengthen your resume
Benefits for employers
- Test entry level students for potential full-time employment
- Gain fresh and leading-edge insights from interns with foundations in the latest business theory, concepts and best practices.
- Recruit and evaluate talent at no cost for your organization
Please provide a brief job description, required skill sets, required working hours per week, work location, paid or unpaid hourly wage (recommended minimum wage or higher depending on skill set to attract the best candidates). Please post the position with Wright Search to reach the broadest number of qualified candidates. Lisa K. Duke lisa.duke@wright.edu can assist you in using Wright Search and developing customized recruiting programs for interns or full-time experienced employees at no cost to your firm.
If you also email the job posting to rscob-admin@wright.edu, we can post the position with your permission and email to students in appropriate majors and to faculty members to promote to students in the classroom and on department bulletin boards
Tips for finding internships and career employment
- Develop a professional resume and cover letter. Meet with Lisa Duke in Career Services to develop your resume, cover letter and a job search strategy.
- Get advice from faculty members in your major. If you want to earn credit for your internship, you must first meet with the designated faculty member for your major.
- Network, network, network. Let faculty members, family, friends, fellow classmates and work associates know you are looking for an internship or career employment. Get active in student clubs and professional associations in your chosen field. Attend their continuing education and social events on-campus and in the business community.
More tips for networking and finding intern and employment opportunities.
From Wright State Career Services: Resources for Finding Jobs
From Monster.com: 6 Job Networking Tips for New Grads
- Attend job fairs on campus and special job fairs. These fairs are held frequently at the Student Union and Nutter Center and by major employers moving to the region (e.g. WilmerHale, Caterpillar, Payless, Code Blue,Tata Business Consultancy).
- Keep your resume posted and current on Wright Search. Many employers look exclusively for candidates on college career sites to recruit talent for their organizations. If your resume is not on Wright Search, you may never even be considered by some employers.
- Check out the weekly job listings on Wright Search. For your convenience, we post the new jobs added to Wright Search on the College home page under the News section. At a glance, you can see what new positions have been posted for the past two weeks
- Check out the on-campus interview schedule on a weekly basis. Many companies and organizations (e.g. Wright Patterson Air Force Base, CareSource, major accounting firms) hold on-campus interviews with very short notice. The positions for these on-campus interviews may or may not be posted on Wright Search.
- Read your Wright State email. The College of Business and Wright State Career Services also announce valuable intern and career employment opportunities – especially for those with short application deadlines.
- Develop and implement your job search strategy. Develop an integrated marketing and sales campaign to get the internship or job you want.
- Identify and continually work a “prospect funnel” of 10 or more intern or full-time job prospects.
- Apply on line directly with companies.
- Review the company’s website special internship or entry-level hiring and training programs.
- Ask your networking contacts, faculty, family, friends to introduce you to people who are already working in your target companies.
- Contact companies for job shadowing and exploratory conversations – even if there are currently no openings in the company.
- Use print, email, social media and phone follow-up.
- Communicate a unique, professional and consistent value proposition for potential hiring companies wherever and whenever you present yourself (print resume, cover letter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, YouTube, etc.)
- More tips for preparing a self-marketing packet
- Prepare for the interview, job fair or job shadow. Career Services offers a full array of job interview skills including mock interviews with videotaped feedback. Practice with classmates, club members, family and friends by anticipating questions employers will ask on interviews.
- Follow-up after the interview. Don’t forget to write a thank you note and follow-up. If you did not get selected for the job, be positive. Thank the employer. Ask for areas where you can improve. Let them know if you are still genuinely interested in future opportunities at the firm. Keep the door open.
More tips for making a positive impression in an interview.
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