Identifying Internship Opportunities

By Penny Loretto, About.com Guide to Internships

Here are a multitude of online resources that are just loaded with internship opportunities. Learn more about the the types of internships and how to make your internship count. Conducting informational interviews, networking, and attending careers fairs are also ways of finding internships. Exploring careers and checking out corporate internships and internships abroad will also yield added results.

1. Types of Internships
2. Finding an Internship & Making it Count
3. Informational Interview
4. Networking
5. Career Exploration

6. Exploring Career Fields
7. Internship Resources
8. Internships Abroad
9. Corporate Internships

Types of Internships

Learn more about the types of experiential education, internships for credit, paid internships versus unpaid, transcript notations, and the overall importance of completing at least one internship experience.

• Types of Internships
• What is Experiential Education?
• Internships for Credit
• Internships Not-For-Credit

• Reasons to do an Internship for Credit
• Transcript Notations
• Learning by Interning
• The Golden Age of Internships

Finding an Internship & Making it Count

How to find an internship, top tips for interns, frequently asked questions about internships, making the most of your internship, developing internship goals, the value of doing an internship.

• Spring Break Is Here
• Finding an Internship
• Top 10 Tips for Interns
• Frequently Asked Questions
• 8 Ways to Find an Internship
• Making the Most of Your Internship
• Developing Internship Goals
• Internship Goals

• When to Look for an Internship
• The Value of Internships
• Number of Internships
• Is One Internship Enough?
• Top 10 Tips for Finding an Internship
• Finding Internships During Break
• Amazing Co-Op Experience

Informational Interview

How to conduct an informational interview, informational interviewing tips, sample informational interviews.

• Preparing for an Informational Interview
• Informational Interviewing Tips

Networking

How to network, tips for successful networking, the importance of establishing professional connections.

• How to Network
• Top Ten Networking Tips
• Preparing an Elevator Speech
• Developing Professional Connections

Career Exploration

The career planning process, researching companies and organizations, researching career options.

• The Career Planning Process
• Researching Companies & Organizations
• Results of Internship Study

Exploring Career Fields

Exploring your personal interests, gaining experience in a career field, identifying career options that are right for you.

• Advertising, Marketing, & Sales
• The Arts
• Entertainment
• The Gilbert V. Hensley, Jr., Internship
• Education
• Environment

• Finance
• Government
• Journalism
• Life Sciences
• NonProfit/Volunteer

Internship Resources

Online internship search engines, top internship sites, books on internships.

• Top Internship Sites
• Top Sites of Career Professionals
• MonsterTRAK
• Internships.com
• InternJobs.com
• InternWeb.com

• WetFeet.com
• Idealist.org
• The Internship Bible
• The OASIS Internship Experience
• Indeed.com
• Simply Hired

Internships Abroad

The value of doing an internship abroad, overseas opportunities, college students share their experiences abroad.

• Doing an Internship Abroad?
• Finding an Internship Abroad
• Overseas Opportunities
• IES Abroad
• IES Intern in Milan

• IES Intern in Bejing
• Cross-Cultural Solutions
• CCS Intern in India
• IES

Corporate Internships

Developing an internship program, employer best internship practices, internship study reveals important facts on internships.

• Developing an Effective Internship Program
• Internship Study
• Employer Best Internship Practices
• Developing an Internship Program