An internship is still one of the best ways to land a full-time job.
Practicum, field placement, internship鈥攏o matter what you call it, work-based learning is a critical part of any student鈥檚 career preparation. Not only do these experiences introduce students to their chosen career and help confirm or rule out job choices, they are the surest path to a full-time job.
鈥淓mployers are more likely to convert interns to new hires than any other kind of positions,鈥 says Saskia Campbell, executive director of at 性视界传媒. 鈥淭hat's their recruitment strategy. That's their pipeline.鈥
And Campbell says Mason students are in demand.
During the 2022-23 academic year, employers posted 29,729 internships on UCS鈥檚 Handshake job search site. That鈥檚 doubled from a pre-pandemic 13,558 postings in 2019-20.
Beyond Handshake, Mason students find internships by leveraging their personal connections and relationships with faculty who have close ties to federal agencies, government contractors and nonprofit organizations in the Washington, D.C., area.听 Some Mason students are even interning abroad through a program in Mason鈥檚 Global Education Office.
In this feature, we take a look at some of the Mason undergraduates who held internships in the summer of 2023.
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