Getting on-the-job experience is the ideal way to “try out” your future profession, while building skills that will aid in your future job search.
The Career Services Center’s Job Location and Development Office maintains a clearinghouse of available internships. Some employers conduct on-campus interviews for their internship positions. In addition to the resources available at the WVU Career Services Center, some schools, colleges, and departments have internship coordinators who assist students in securing career-related internships.
For some majors, such as forensic and investigative science and communication studies, an internship is required; many other majors highly recommend that their students complete internships.
Here are just a few of the places WVU students have interned:
| ABC News Bayer Charleston Gazette Cincinnati Bengals Clear Channel Cleveland Indians DC United DuPont ESPN FBI Fox Sports Net GE Plastics GlaxoSmithKline GolinHarris International Good Morning America KDKA radio and TV Lockheed Martin Mylan Laboratories, Inc. NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium |
National Geographic Society NBC Sports NCAA New Jersey Devils New Jersey Nets Nike Pfizer Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Post-Gazette SONY Technology Center Texas Shakespeare Festival The Associated Press Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia Union Carbide US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms US Navy Criminal Investigative Service (CIS) US Space and Rocket Center Walt Disney World WTFX in Philadelphia |