Finding internships

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

Online postings:

• Handshake: internships and post-grad jobs posted for VT students. Includes internships offered by some offices at Virginia Tech.
• CareerShift: search for jobs and contacts in every type of organization.
• GoinGlobal: search for internships and jobs in 63 countries; country career guides with job search etiquette and protocols for 43 countries.
• 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. Resources provided by GEO:
  • Other programs include internship, service-learning, work abroad.
  • The "program search" tool provided by the Global Education office; use "advanced search" to select the type of program ("parameters" includes "program type" which includes "internship").

Fairs to meet employers:

• Career fairs list includes:
  • Fairs sponsored by Career & Professional Development.
  • Fairs sponsored by colleges and departments at Virginia Tech.
  • Fairs sponsored by VT Alumni Association chapters.
    
  • Teaching / education fairs.
  • Virtual fairs focused for industries and populations.

Employers who have hired VT students or graduates

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

• Employers of students enrolled in the VT Cooperative Education and Internship Program (CEIP).
• VT graduates' first employers after graduation, in the First Destination 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. Employers sometimes contact departments directly about jobs, and we in CPD share internship and job announcements with academic departments to share with 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!
• LinkedIn for students
  To connect with alumni and others based on organizational affiliations and career fields.

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. What does that tell you?!

• 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 on your major and your career field, other terminology may be used and other types of experience are valuable.