Students
should utilize internships
By Toby Lewis
On-line Forty-Niner
Cal
State Long Beach students who are interested
in internships need not look father than
the Career Development Center.
“Our internship program is an elective program,”
Robin Lee, coordinator of cooperative education
at the center, said.
Lee said that most departments will offer
internship postings, but they are all major
specific.
The Career Development Center program is
selective in that students from virtually
any major background, can find postings
from a variety of companies that are offering
internships.
“I had an art major come in looking to go
into fashion design,” Keisha Pink, an intern
advisor at the center, said. “[That student]
came here looking for internships because
the art department didn’t have any internships
in that field,” Pink said.
The Career Development Center has a variety
of internships available from a variety
of companies.
Companies call the center and say what kinds
of interns they are hiring and the center
will, in turn, post the new listings in
a variety of places, Pink said.
Those places include the resource library
located at the Career Development Center,
an internship bulletin board located outside
of the center, and online.
Pink said the best way to find out about
new listings is online.
An example of companies that are frequently
recruiting interns from the Career Development
Center are Morgan Stanley, Port of Long
Beach, New Line Cinema, Red Cross, Habitat
for Humanity and the Boys & Girls clubs.
MTV is also among the many companies which
frequently recruits interns from the center.
Pink said MTV is usually looking for film,
marketing and communication majors.
Depending on the type of internship that
is available, some students will get paid,
and others will get hired on a volunteer
basis, said Thu Truong, an intern advisor
at the Career Development Center.
Students who wish to find internships through
the center can sign up online by visiting
the Career Development Center Web site.
From there, students will create a user
profile and create an online resume, Truong
said.
Registering online is of no cost to the
student. Once students are registered, they
have access to all internship postings.
They can choose which ones sound the most
interesting to them and submit their resume
to that company, it usually takes about
two weeks for a company to get back to the
student, Truong said.
A tip for students looking for internships
is to “start early,” said Pink.
“Start looking now because there are companies
that do early recruitment for the following
semester and summer,” Pink said.
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