Wabash Seeks Career Exploration Opportunities

Alumni and Parent Involvement Makes an Impact on the Professional Development of Wabash Students

Externships

Wabash students have diverse and varied career interests, and are actively seeking opportunities to gain firsthand experience on-the-job.  Externships are short, unpaid “career test drives” that allow students to explore an area of interest through intensive job shadowing.  The goal of these experiences is that upon completion, a student should have a clearer idea whether they intend to pursue further experience in that particular field, or determine that they need to explore other options.

• Students shadow their host for a short (1 day to 1 month), unpaid experience that may include attending meetings or working on a short-term project
• Can be completed over school breaks or at the convenience of the hosting alumnus
• Networking opens doors for future opportunities with the host organization, and may be useful in identifying potential intern candidates

Wabash-Funded Internship Programs

Wabash College through a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., along with generous support from alumni donations to the Small Business Internship Fund, will significantly underwrite the cost of fifty-five (55) student internships for summer 2015.  The goals of the Internship Programs are to allow Wabash students the opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience through working on a meaningful project(s) for a host organization; while providing an incentive for host organizations to consider Wabash students for internships at a significantly reduced cost to the organization. 

• Eight-week long experience providing students meaningful real-world working experiences
• Open to for-profit and non-profit organizations in Indiana (40 spots) or around the county (15 spots)
• Underwriting helps to off-set the costs to business and encourages alumni to consider a Wabash student

Getting Started

Wabash alumni and parents are the best resource available to current students seeking career exploration opportunities.  If you would like to receive more information about participating in any of these programs, please click on this link to provide some basic contact information and we will be in touch with you shortly!