Gain Experience / Internships
The experience you gain through student organizations (including sororities & fraternities), service work, research, athletics, and employment will help you determine what you like and don’t like. Through these experiences you will further develop the skills employers are most interested in such as communication, teamwork and initiative.
Opportunities to consider:
- Cornell in Hollywood: summer positions in entertainment, law, and more. Strong alumni networking component included.
- Develop Your Own Internships: for students eligible for Federal Work-Study money.
- Additional Internship Programs: designed specifically for or which are especially suitable for Cornell students.
- Cornell Summer Programs
- Special Academic Opportunities: build experience.
Recruiting Events
- The New York Recruiting Consortium: employers representing banking and finance, consulting, retail, advertising, law, and various other fields. They interview Arts & Sciences and Human Ecology students for internships in New York City in January.
- Careers & Internship Connections: career events in NYC, DC, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles held over the January break. The events have a morning career fair open to all undergraduates from the consortium schools and afternoon pre-arranged interviews. Only Cornell students from the College of Arts & Sciences may participate.
- More events
Additional Resources
- Cornell CareerNet: designed to help students find internships as well as jobs.
- View thousands of online internship listings through The Internship Series and EcoJobs.
- Cornell Student Employment Services: student jobs and internships on the Cornell Campus or in Ithaca or Tompkins County.
- CU student reports on past summer jobs
- Career libraries in G55 Goldwin Smith Hall, 103 Barnes and across the university. To get started, utilize the library-specific searchable database.
- Browse the Internship Section of our library, which contains such useful resources as The National Directory of Arts Internships.
We encourage you to refer to the additional resources under Employers and Recruiting.
Cornell Career Services also offers tips and a timeline for obtaining an internship.
The top 5 personal qualities/skills employers seek are:
- Communication skills (verbal and written)
- Strong work ethic
- Teamwork skills (works well with others)
- Initiative
- Analytical skills
According to National Association of College’s and Employers' Job Outlook 2009 survey
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