Internships

Internship Resources

Timeline

First Year — Explore and Experience

  • Test out the waters in light of your interests and values.
    • Try different campus and community activities, go to programs, and try limited involvement in different groups — volunteer (EVE).
    • Take classes where you have interest or curiosity.
    • Take one of the self assessment tests in the Bonner Center.
  • Start or update your resume.
  • Externships — experience the real world with a SAM externship.
  • Explore summer internships, part-time jobs, or volunteering in areas of interest to you.

Second Year — Become Informed and Gain Experience

  • Get involved in 1 or 2 groups or committees — make a commitment and serve with intentionality; develop skills and leadership abilities.
  • Set up Informational Interviews with alumni in careers of interest to you.
  • Utilize the Bonner Center: research options, talk with a career counselor, take assessment tests, attend a resume workshop, have your resume critiqued.
  • Intern or volunteer locally in Richmond during the year gaining skills.
  • Talk with friends, mentors, and professors about their career choices.
  • Consider a SAM externship for two weeks in May or June.
  • Participate in a summer internship, research, or job in a field of interest.

Third Year — Prepare and Act

  • Come by the Bonner Center — become better informed about your options or ideas whether jobs, graduate programs, or gap year alternatives; review your resume.
  • Attend a career fair.
  • Develop your leadership, connections with a few professors, volunteer
  • Join a professional organization.
  • Consider courses and workshops that help you develop marketable skills — for example the Bonner Center Grant Writing Workshop.
  • Review your activities and experiences up to this point and consider how you wish to add to them; use the Review Sheet.
  • Participate in a summer internships, research, or job in a field of interest — consider working with populations of which you have an interest.

Fourth Year — Connections and Decisions

  • Build transferable skills, gather information on next steps of interest to you, consider the network you have built — the Bonner Center can help.
  • Attend the Etiquette Dinner — reservations through the Bonner Center.
  • Check out job opportunities and research companies or non-profits.
  • Improve your resume, get help interviewing, know your timeline and what is required for Graduate School applications - see the Bonner Center.
  • Attend the Senior DisOrientation Seminar the first weekend of Spring Term.
  • Network.