Students, throughout your high school years you are most likely looking for ways to engage in unique experiences valued by colleges and insightful to the process of deciding your desired career. Internships provide just these qualities and are plentiful when summer comes around. Although how do you acquire one?
There are a few ways to attain internships to fill your summer schedule and provide a back door into the profession of your choosing:
1. A simple web search
As ridiculously easy as it sounds, a plain search stating “(job you would like) internships near me” will result in application opportunities. To receive a more specified result, it is recommended you identify your goals and research dependent on those goals.
“Outline your career goals, and identify the types of industries, companies and roles you want to pursue,” according to indeed.com.
Engaging in this step ensures internship opportunities appealing to your needs and interests as well as provide a variety of opportunities.
2. Look on job boards
“Job listing sites can be a great resource for beginning your internship search because companies use these sites to attract a wide variety of highly qualified candidates,” according to indeed.com.
The benefits of conducting this research is it takes you directly to the employer and companies you search. When you reach this information, you may then identify high school unpaid internships among them.
3. Network
As a high school student you might be under the impression you have no networking abilities or connections although you are wrong.
“People from your past and present, as well as colleagues and people outside of your profession, are all great ideas. Adding all of them to your professional network is important, because you never know who can help you (and who you can help) in your professional journey,” according to flexjobs.com.
This essentially means to utilize everyone and anyone willing to aid you in your search. Friends of friends, parents of friends, teachers, all are networking opportunities. Do not cut anyone out, even those who appear too loose in connection to you or irrelevant in finding an internship.
Lastly, below are current websites and organizations providing internship opportunities to high schoolers. Prepare your resume and apply early!
miamiinterns.org
https://www.miamidade.gov/global/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1547056672529572