🎙️ Panel: Insider Tips for How to Land the Internship and Launch Your Career
Internships can be a game-changer
Internships have a range of positive long-term implications, like higher salaries and more career satisfaction. Internships are an opportunity to gain resume-building work experience, explore different career paths, grow your network – and your confidence!
Unfortunately, we know there are an array of obstacles in the way of reaching internship opportunities and Hispanic students from 2- and 4-year programs and Black students from 2-year programs are most likely to miss out on internships primarily because they did not apply. Let’s break down those barriers and change that!
Get insider tips for finding, obtaining, and succeeding in internships
If you are looking to explore your career options, gain mentorship, and get paid while doing it, then this panel is for you. We’re bringing together talent and HR professionals, hiring managers, and interns from across different career fields to share insider tips for finding, obtaining, and succeeding in internships. Â
They will answer your questions around topics like:Â
- How internships are within reach and can fit with your schedule and life
- How to go about applying for internships
- Pitfalls to avoid in internship and job interviews
- How to leverage your transferable skills and experiences
- How to go navigate mentorship and networking
- What different internship experiences can look like
Join us on December 6, 2024 to gain insider tips for finding, securing, and succeeding in your internship and future career. Register and submit your questions in advance.Â
🎙️ Online webinar format
🗓️ December 6, 2024
⏰ 12-12:45 p.m. PT/3-3:45 p.m. ET
➡️ Free and open to all
Meet the panelists
Coming soon!
About Making Waves Education Foundation
At Making Waves, we are committed to educational equity. Making Waves Education Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit that supports Making Waves Academy – a public charter school with more than 1,100 5th through 12th grade students – and leads college and career programming with more than 430 college students.​
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Knowing the opportunities that come with a college degree, we partner with historically underrepresented and underserved students to help make college affordable and graduation attainable. Centering the journeys of our students, our personalized approach includes college and career coaching, scholarships, and financial planning.​
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Our alumni network includes more than 730 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 85% graduating debt-free.
