Test drive your career
An internship is a well-planned learning experience that combines career development and academic learning. Internships may be paid or unpaid, and some may be available for academic credit. However, an internship is not a chance to get academic credit for your current part-time job. Unlike many part-time jobs, internships should help you apply your classroom learning in the real-world. If you’re only making copies and filing, chances are, you are not learning.
In today’s competitive job market, internships are one of the best ways to test-drive your career. Internships help you connect your academic studies to the real world, learn about yourself, and provide valuable information about the world around you. Our unique location in Atlanta offers extraordinary opportunities to gain valuable work experience in any field. Oglethorpe students have recently completed internships at The Carter Center, CNN, Georgia Pacific, Atlanta Magazine, Zoo Atlanta, the Atlanta History Center, and the Georgia State Legislature, to name only a few. In addition to these Atlanta-based internships, the A_Lab has resources and affiliations with nationwide opportunities, such as the Washington Center in Washington, D.C.
Featured Internships
Remote workers allowed
Scholarships for Unpaid Internships
Apply for a $2,000 scholarship award to pursue academic credit for an unpaid internship through a nonprofit organization.
How to get an internship
If you don’t already have a career plan, or even if you do, you’ll find it helpful to discuss internship options with us. We can help you to think about your goals, assess your skills and interests, and help you decide on the types of internships that will move you along your career path. Ideally, this will be done during the semester before your internship begins.
If you choose not to seek academic credit, you do not need to apply and have your internship approved. However, you still need to register your internship with the A-Lab. The internship requirements (2.0 GPA, sophomore status) are waived if you do not wish to receive academic credit. Non-credit internships may begin and end at any time and don’t need to be structured around the academic calendar or the drop/add dates. However, you and your supervisor should agree on a suitable length of time. At least three months is recommended.
Log into Handshake using your Oglethorpe username and password.
Select “Report an Internship” on the left side of the page and the system will walk you through the process to apply for your internship.
- Participate in company-wide events
- Attend different types of meetings and presentations
- Apply for/look for opportunities within the company
- Attend conferences offered to employees
- Ask for a directory and an organizational chart
- Conduct informational interviews: Find out more about the organization and the field you are interested in by interviewing employees who have careers that interest you.
- Assess the value of your internship experience: Review your internship objectives periodically and conduct reflective self-assessments through logs or memos to your file to ensure that you are meeting those goals. If your work experience does not seem to be allowing you to meet your objectives for the internship, tactfully and professionally request a meeting with your supervisor to discuss modifying your assignments.