By admin, on November 8th, 2010 Yes international students can intern in the United States; you must check with your international student coordinator to ensure that you follow the correct process. If you want to get paid while interning in the US, you have two options: Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT). Most international students prefer to use CPT when interning because it allows them to save up all of their OPT in order to use it to work for one full year after graduation. CPT requires that your internship is related to your major and that you receive academic credit for your internship. Again, it is vital that you connect with your campus’ international student coordinator. If you accept an unpaid internship, you will not need to worry about either OPT or CPT. However, it is still important to connect with your campus’ internship coordinator to set up a learning agreement.
Internship Basics is a series of articles that answers some of the fundamental questions college students ask about interning.
In the next Internship Basics post, we’ll answer the question, When should I intern?
By admin, on November 6th, 2010 
We now have a mobile-friendly version of Sweet Careers up and running. It is supposed to be optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices. The screenshot to the left is from an iPod. Let me know if anything looks amiss.
(WPtouch plugin available for WordPress here.)
By admin, on November 5th, 2010  In December of 2008, I responded to an article by Wake Forest University president Nathan Hatch in which he laid out, among other things, the importance of enhancing college career centers in order to allow them to focus on career development, not just job placement. At the time, I absolutely agreed, but also offered my thoughts on how, from a macro perspective, such enhancements could occur. I just finished reading through a Chronicle of Higher Education article from earlier this year that lays out the dramatic overhaul that has been made to the career development program at Wake Forest under the charge of Andy Chan. The university as a whole has placed a priority on vocational and character development and has backed that with about $5-million! I must say, I’m impressed by Mr. Chan’s efforts and President Nathan Hatch’s obvious commitment to their students’ lifelong career development. It will be wonderful to see other campuses take similar steps. Congrats to Wake Forest University’s Office of Personal and Career Development, Pres. Hatch and Andy Chan.
Follow Andy on Twitter and check out his blog, Heart of the Matter.
By admin, on November 4th, 2010  That depends. Check to see if your campus has an internship program. A credit internship will typically need the approval of at least one faculty member and may need to be registered with the career center or internship coordinator. Institutions can differ in their policies, so if you think you may want to get credit for an internship, speak with the appropriate people on your campus before the internship, (even while you are searching for opportunities); requesting credit after the internship is completed is usually too late!
It helps to have already begun to think through some of the ways in which an internship might meet academic requirements before you meet with faculty about the possibility of getting credit. You don’t have to have it all figured out, but it can help guide your conversation, especially you are applying to internship sites that are relatively unfamiliar to your faculty.
Internship Basics is a series of articles that answers some of the fundamental questions college students ask about interning.
In the next Internship Basics post, we’ll answer the question, Can I Paid?
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