Finding internships

• Postings and search sources 
• Fairs to meet employers  
• Employers who hired VT students or grads 
• Your college and academic department
• Networking
• Use multiple ways to get experience

Postings and search sources:

• Handshake: When employers ask to post internships and post-grad jobs for VT students, Handshake is where they post. Includes internships offered by some offices at Virginia Tech.
• Campus internEXP is a program for student internships with Virginia Tech departments.
• CareerShift: search for jobs and contacts in every type of organization.
• GoinGlobal: search for internships and jobs in many countries; country career guides with job search etiquette and protocols.
• Peer Career Advisor Program in CPD.
• Internship websites
• Career-field websites - choose your field(s) from over 20 options.
• Virginia and local resources
• Workplace diversity resources
• LGBTQ resources
• Disability resources
• Global Education Office at Virginia Tech provides support to students who wish to search for an international internship or other opportunities, and they have expertise to guide you. Look for "program search" on their website which allows you to search programs by "type," including internships.

Fairs to meet employers:

• Career and Professional Development provides a career fairs list including VT-affiliated career fairs and other opportunities.

Employers who have hired VT students or graduates

• When undergraduate students enroll in the Cooperative Education and Internship Program (CEIP), they must report their employer. See Cooperative Education and Internship Program (CEIP) for undergraduates to view employers, by major, of students enrolled in CEIP.
• We ask all graduating seniors to report their first destination after graduation, whether employed, continuing education, volunteering, going into military services, etc. New graduates who report employment are asked to report their employer. Employers are listed by undergraduate major, and you can see this in the First Destination Report "Employment" accordion.

Your college and academic department

• Read the website of both your college and the academic department for your major. Many departments provide information about careers and internships for their students. Know the ways that your college and academic department share information with students, and stay connected.

Networking and seeking out potential employers

• Networking
  Why it's important and how to do it!

Use multiple ways to get experience

• The vast majority of VT graduates had career-related experience during college. Even so, almost a third wished they had gotten more experience. So don't limit yourself to one experience, or one type!

• Use all the ways to get experience, including field study, part-time jobs, summer jobs, volunteering, service-learning, shadowing, para-professional opportunities, co-op, undergraduate research, extracurricular involvement and leadership. Depending upon your major and your career field, other terminology may be used and other types of experience are valuable.