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Hard to find a job, but not an internship
“Students are looking for internships even after their first year,” said Sheila Curran, executive director of Duke University’s career center, noting that 88% of Duke students graduate with at least one internship under their belts. “It’s become expected that you’d have at least one internship during college.”
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Universities are also recognizing the increased importance of internships and are working harder to secure spots for their students, said Richard Bottner, founder of Intern Bridge, a college recruiting research and consulting firm. Some colleges are even requiring students to do at least one internship to graduate.
The Deming Scholars MBA program at Fordham includes a heavy dose of internships (”Subject matter is delivered in five integrated learning cycles. Five eight-week sessions of classroom lectures, seminars and study are linked by seven-week internships at participating firms”). Integrating well planned internships can be very valuable to improving learning. By the way if your company would like to host these students you can contact the program to discuss the opportunity.
Curiouscat.com has a web site for locating internships. I would love to get some good management improvement based internships added - there is no charge to add internships. For actual jobs try the Curious Cat Management Improvement job board.
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December 27th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
“By the time graduation rolls around, students will have had three six-week apprenticeships and received industry certifications in computer-assisted design and other applications…”
June 16th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Universities are also recognizing the increased importance of internships and are working harder to secure spots for their students, said Richard Bottner, founder of Intern Bridge, a college recruiting research and consulting firm. Some colleges are even requiring students to do at least one internship to graduate.
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