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When looking for an internship, consider the direction you would like to take your career and start searching websites of companies or databases that can help you progress toward your goals. The links listed below have been compiled to give you an idea of the resources available to you and as an aid to facilitate your internship search. In addition to the resources listed below, here are a few other ideas to help you get started finding an internship:

  • Visit your Department Internship Coordinator, department Web site, or department job board
  • Check out the Career Center's job board
  • Talk to faculty within your field of study
  • Turn your current job into an internship
  • Talk to other students who have interned in your field of study
  • Set up informational interviews with professionals
  • Check out BYU's eRecruiting
  • Search the telephone directory and submit your resume to applicable companies
  • Search trade publications, classified ads, and professional association job listings
  • Use your parents, friends, and ward contacts
  • Search with an on line search engine like Google
  • Use student associations to access professionals

 

Here are some helpful websites:

 

1. The Internship Office Database

This is BYU Internship Office's Current Experience Provider Database.  It contains many approved internship providers.

2. Life Sciences Internship Database

This is the Internship Database for the College of Life Sciences.

3. RIT Internship website  

First, pick the category that you are interested in and click on it. Second, the list of places to intern are listed in alphabetical order. Third, when you find the place that you are interested in interning, click on the "co-op" link next the name.

It is important not to get overwhelmed!! Begin your search by thinking of places that you would like to study or work after you graduate, and look for programs there first! Please know that at their root internship programs are recruitment programs, and you want to be recruited by schools and businesses that you want to end up with after you graduate.

4. The National Science Foundation's REU (Research for Undergraduates)

They have a number of excellent internships listed by scientific topic. If you are looking into Environmental studies, then this is probably a good place to start!

 

Are you specifically looking for Internships in the Utah Valley?

 

Utah Valley Internships

Check out this compilation of resources in Provo and the surrounding area.

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