• What advanced skills and knowledge are ESSENTIAL for this position?

• What responsibilities of this position require advanced coursework at an institution of higher education?

• What will I learn or experience from this internship that I haven’t had the opportunity to learn or experience yet?

• Who will provide supervision and training throughout the experience?

Positions typically NOT considered professional experience: 

• Cashier

• Bank teller

• Telemarketer

• Receptionist

• General laborer

• Waiter/host/bartender

• Sales floor personnel

• Point of sale representative

• Administrative assistant

• Customer service representative

Interested in working with a minority-owned organization or business? Be sure to specify your interest in working with a minority-owned business when creating your Handshake profile, and inform the Internship Coordinator and your faculty adviser.

• Develop a resume and cover letter, all tailored to each position.
• Talk to the Journalism Department Internship Coordinator and your faculty adviser.
• Check the internship postings below and on the twin bulletin boards across from Sage Hall #3003 and in the AMP reading room located in Sage #3408. 
• Check Handshake, LinkedIn, Indeed and individual websites of organizations where you want to work.
• Stay after class to talk to speakers and guests about your interests in your field and their connections or opportunities.
• Attend job fairs, career workshops and other professional development opportunities to network with prospective employers.
• Improve your interviewing skills by attending mock interviews.
• Follow up on any possible leads or applications you may have sent out. 
• Alert family, friends, faculty and those in your network you are searching and include a copy of your resume and criteria for your search.
• If there is a specific company or organization that you are interested in, check their website or contact them directly about internship opportunities.
• Consider turning your current part-time or former position into an internship using contacts you may already have. Ask the Internship Coordinator for advice on this. 

Internships are available in small businesses and corporate settings as well as the non-profit sector where students work in government, the arts and education. Examples of non-profit internship titles might include:

• Grant Writer
• Development Intern
• Nonprofit Administration Intern
• Executive Intern

Responsibilities could include working with:

Grants

• Conducting in-depth research on funding possibilities for program and initiatives.

• Contributing significantly to source identification, feasibility analysis, and the proposal drafting process.

• Assisting with development of program specific grant proposals.

• Performing grant writing, grant management, funding opportunity research, resource research.

Fundraising

• Working with the Executive Director, assisting with fundraising, producing events, analyzing strategic plans.

• Assisting with planning and implementation of fundraising events.

• Examples of marketing, fundraising, and event planning duties are researching donor prospects and granting organizations, attending strategic meetings, helping to plan benefits and distributing marketing materials.

Public Relations

• Other duties may include assisting with capital campaigns and general public relations.

• Communication tools — emails, newsletters, community presentations.

The goal of an internship in interactive web management is to apply knowledge acquired in the classroom to real-world situations, as well as gain the skills and experience that is necessary to prepare the student for a successful career in interactive web management.

UW Oshkosh Interactive Web Management Highlights:

Interactive Web Management is offered as a BS, BA, and BBA degree with largely the same core content. It is offered and managed jointly by the four departments. The degree prepares students for work at the intersection of technology, marketing, public relations and media. The graduates of the program will be able to work in areas such as developing and managing web site presences, social media strategy, social media production, search engine optimization and online brand presence.

Internship Overview:

Internships are professional experiences that students participate in to gain professional skills and experiences. Internships are structured as learning experiences that combine in-class theory with real-world applications. A valid experience for IWM majors is an internship or co-op that requires skills and knowledge obtained from major-specific courses. Positions should be similar to an entry-level position that these students would get out of college. IWM interns may work in Web development, Web design, online brand presence or Web marketing in a larger company, but also have the ability to manage an entire Web-based infrastructure for a small firm where one or two people might make up the entire IT staff.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Website content creation

• External digital content creation

• Developing operational plans

• Managing technology infrastructures

• Designing, implementing data collection and sharing mechanisms

• Analyzing and addressing ethical considerations of interactive technologies and online communities

• Providing privacy, security and protection of information assets

• Search engine optimization

• Digital project management

Past Student Internship Projects:

• Find solutions to web design issues

• Usability testing

• Social media marketing

• Analytics research

• Search engine optimization research

• Creating content for e-blast campaigns and press releases

• Strategizing new creative marketing techniques

• HTML/CSS coding projects

• Web development support

• Branding design

• Mobile app development