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At school in the real world
■The Career Center gives
undergrads the opportunity
to earn credit as they earn
experience
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Not sure what you. want to be
when you grow up?
An internship could help you de
cide.
Internships provide job experi
ence, a few priceless lines on a re
sume and the chance to explore var
ious fields of study. Typically,
students choose to participate in in
ternships during the summer.
The Career Center formed the Ca
reer Development Internship Pro
gram to assist interested students in
finding internships while receiving
academic credit.
“Internships give students real
world experience,” said Rick Guer
ra, assistant director of the CDIP.
“For some it is their first exposure
to their fields of study, and can help
them decide if that’s what they want
to do.”
Anchors, sports writers and so
cial service workers are just a few of
the positions students in the CDIP
have filled.
“Summer is a big period for us,”
Guerra said. “There are at least 100
folks who had internships in vari
ous areas.”
CDIP provides internship oppor
tunities for juniors and seniors in
good academic standing. Interns
can earn up to three credits after fin
ishing at least one term for a mini
mum of nine hours a week.
For successfully completing the
internship and required course
work, which can include creating a
contract with the help of a supervi
sor and writing a report about the in
ternship experience, students are el
igible to earn upper-division credit
in counseling psychology.
Students can also propose their
own internships or they can inter
view with one of the organizations
that regularly participate in CDIP.
“The employers get exposed to
the University and students; the stu
dents get real-world experience and
skills they couldn’t get in the class
room,” Guerra said. “It’s a win-win
situation for everyone. ”
Haley Smith, a senior majoring in
English and minoring in business,
participated in an internship
through the Career Center.
“I worked at the Big Brother Big
Sister Program at the YMCA,”
Smith said. “I did event planning
and fundraising, made calls, wrote
letters and worked on getting funds
and support.”
Smith said the most important
skills she learned are how to be pro
fessional in a business situation,
how to interact in the office and
how to prioritize.
“The pressure of a job is totally
different than in the class-setting,”
she said.
In addition to internships, many
students in pre-professional majors
participate in programs known as
practicum and field study, where
they are put into the professional
environment.
“For many pre-professional pro
grams, experience in the real envi
ronment is part of the requirement
for getting the degree,” said Dianne
Ferguson, coordinator of Academic
Support Services in the Education
Department.
In the Education Department, stu
dents who are going into the teach
ing field take part in a program
called September Experience. Uni
versity students go into classrooms
during the beginning of September
when shool starts and watch teach
ers set up classrooms and welcome
new students.
“I really enjoyed it,” Karen
Brohlin, graduate student in speech
Internship and
summer job timeline
October to November
1) Write a statement of career goals
and learning objectives
2) Research and locate companies,
agencies, programs, etc.
3) Be aware of early deadlines and
testing dates to fill all requirements
for particular internship programs
4) Prepare a rough draft of your re
sume
Mid-November to Mid-December
1) Ca II or write for appl ications to
special programs
2} Write further letters of inquiry,
networking letters, etc.
3} Contact your "network" people —
friends, family, professors and previ
ous employers concerning leads for
internships
4} Set up informational interviews
for fall break, holidays, January
Mid-December to January
1} Prepareand send letters of appli
cation, internship proposals and fi
nal copy of resume
2) Contact personnel directors, con
tacts from "networking” and other
influential people in the organiza
tion or business
3) Submit applications
4) Conduct informational interviews
that had been scheduled
5) Follow-upon responses to letters
of inquiry
SOURCE: Bucknell University
pathology and a program partici
pant said. “It really gives you an
idea of the class setting.”
For more information on intern
ships check out the Career Center
Web site at http://uocareer.uore
gon.edu/.
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