Finding internship opportunities

Internship central  >  Finding opportunities

• Online postings 
• Events to meet employers  
• Employers who hired VT students or grads 
• Your academic department
• Networking
• Use multiple ways to get experience

Online postings:

• VT-exclusive resources include and tell you more about:
  • Hokies4Hire where internships and post-grad jobs are posted for VT students.
  • Current Jobs For Graduates focuses on jobs for liberal arts and social science majors.
    Includes:  art  |  performing arts  |  liberal arts  |  writing, editing, communication  |  education  |  international  |  managment & business.
  • CareerShift lets you search for jobs and contacts in every type of organization.
  • GoinGlobal lets you search for internships and jobs in 63 countries; country career guides with job search etiquette and protocols for 43 countries.
• Internship websites
• Career-field websites - choose your field from 23 groups of career fields.
• Virginia and local resources
• Internship opportunities within Virginia Tech are posted in Hokies4Hire:
  • Includes: Career & Professional Development provides paid training and para-professional experience to students to serve as Peer Career Advisors. The Peer Career Advisor program is our version of an internship.
• Workplace diversity resources
• LGBTQ resources
• Disability resources
• Global Education Office provides International resources and guidance, including:
  • Internships abroad
  • Guide to international internships and service learning
  • Registering with the Global Education Office if you intern abroad
  • Service-Learning abroad

Events to meet employers:

• Career fairs and job fairs list includes:
  • Fall and Spring Connection Job Fairs are the ONLY fairs sponsored by Career & Professional Development, and are open to employers seeking students in any Virginia Tech major.
  • Fairs sponsored by colleges and departments at Virginia Tech (12-15 per year).
  • Career fairs sponsored by VT Alumni Association chapters:
    - National Capital Region fair during spring break.
    - Richmond RVA career expos in fall and spring.

Employers who have hired VT students or graduates

View these employers by major and research those of interest. Those who have hired interns and co-ops in the past may do so in the future. Those who have hired new grads may also offer internships or other pre-graduation experience.

• Employers of students enrolled in the VT Cooperative Education and Internship Program
• VT graduates' first employers after graduation, in the Post-Graduation Report.

Your academic department

• Read your academic department website! Many departments post internships and jobs on their site.
  
• Watch for email from your academic department. We send job announcements to academic departments so that they can forward these notices on to their students.
• Visit your academic department. Look for bulletin boards where internships and jobs are posted.

Networking and seeking out potential employers

• Networking
  Why it's important and how to do it!
• Help from alumni / Hokie Nation Network
  Professional online networking.
• LinkedIn for students
  To connect with alumni and others based on organizational affiliations and career fields.

Use multiple ways to get experience