Hi. I know when you are in college you can go and intern with companies because you’ll get college credits and some work experience related to your field off study. I never persued any internships when I was in school. Can I still go back and intern with a company if I go back, and I am a college graduate? Please let me know. Thank you.
Some people go back and get a 2nd bachelors degree so I suppose you could in theory. However, I can’t imagine that would be a good move from a financial or time standpoint. A better move may be to just take a lower level position within the company and try to work your way into something interesting. A lot of internships just involve boring and routine tasks anyway.
It would depend upon your college, I assume.
I’d be surprised it you could, though, simply because AFAIK the point of interning is to get relevant work experience between semesters, to make you more marketable once you graduate. If you have graduated, then you don’t need to build up a variety of experience in 4-month chunks, you simply go out and get hired at a job and see how it goes. You are free to quit and try something new 4 months later if you want. Interning for credit, often called co-op is usually taken as a university course, to earn credit towards a certain degree. If you have already graduated, it is highly unlikely the school will let you take credit classes without trying to earn a certificate or degree, I think.
Contact your alumni association to see if they offer job placement services to grads. Temp agencies might also help you find entry-level jobs that could interest you.
The answer is ‘yes’. If you are an full time adult student, you might consider summer internships to gain additional work experience. Especially if you are changing career fields.
If you are in grad school, you would certainly take internships over the summer. A typical example would be investment banking.
I’m not sure why someone would go back and get a second bachelors degree. You would probably be better off getting a masters in something.
As far as I know, you can get internships that are not necessarily arranged through a school. Just apply to a company and tell them you’d like to work as an intern. You could perhaps tell a company you’d like to intern with that you’re planning to go to grad school, and would like an internship in the meantime.
From an engineering perspective, we hire engineering students as interns because we only have to pay them 50-75% of what a entry-level engineer grad would get. Also, we only give them a commitment for 3 months or so, so it’s very easy to get rid of them if they don’t work out. It works out for the interns because they get valuable experience and build up their resume, making them much more marketable with they graduate.
Not necessarily. There are fields that require a bachelor’s in that specific area to qualify for certification or licensure; teaching and many health fields come to mind. There are also master’s programs that require a certain number of undergraduate-level remedial courses for people who don’t have a bachelor’s in that subject, and some people would need enough of those that they end up with another bachelor’s anyway.
It does happen.
To the OP: Check with your college alumni association; they may have someone dedicated to career services who can point you in the right direction.
Robin
Heh… mnemosyne, BSc (biochemistry) currently back at school for her B. Eng (Mechanical).
The internships I’m interested in for this summer are entirely different than what I’ve done before, and I wouldn’t be able to even seriously apply to them without being back in school
It happens 