Internships

How to get an internship in community college?

Internships are a terrific way to gain real world exposure to a career in your target major and build significant extracurricular experiences to support a holistic transfer application. However, for many community college students the recruitment pipeline and resources for landing internships can be scarce. The majority of companies look to recruit students from four year institutions, which put community college students at a disadvantage in the recruiting process compared to similar freshman and sophomore students at four year institutions. As a result, as a community college student, you will need to be more creative in how you approach, network, and apply for internships at the community college level.

The Internship Recruiting Pipeline At Four Year Universities

To begin explaining how a community college student can begin to approach an internship application, it’s helpful to define the list of opportunities available to students to students at four year universities to see how we can mirror this experience at the community college level.

The Internship Recruiting Pipeline At Community Colleges

We’ve outlined the opportunities from the most effective to least effective strategies in obtaining an internship during community college. (The ordering of this list is purely empirical based on experiences with students we’ve worked with over the past years)