Internships

An internship gives you the opportunity to make a solid connection between classroom theory and the world of work.

What do Champlain business students say about their internships?

Burton Snowboards

A business student with skills in graphic arts was able to learn about “color rotations of both the top and bottom graphics of snowboards and see the progression of each year’s model along with how every little change is documented.” This same student, for the first time, “saw first hand how an idea becomes a physical object.” In his own words, “this internship experience will be one of the most rewarding opportunities that will take place in my lifetime. I have not only learned of how a designer looks at a project before working on it, but what they think about when doing it. I will be able to use all of the tools have learned in this internship and apply them to future opportunities I might have.”

Howard Center for Human Services

A business student with a passion for human resource development found her perspective change through her internship. After three months on the job she summarized her experience enthusiastically as “having been a very intense learning experience. I have been deeply immersed in almost every topic. I have learned so much, and I am sure that there is much more to come.”

Fletcher CSI (Marketing & Competitive Research)

A business student with an interest in marketing found himself responsible for some “initial research into a major company's competitors for which I developed spreadsheets showing the data for companies in the industry, their location, contact persons, and, most importantly, their strategic thrusts into the market." This, combined with several other research projects, resulted in comments from his supervisor that he was “an important part of the company for the past several months.”

Church Street Marketplace

A business student with previous internship experience in the financial industry wanted to get hands-on experience in event management and marketing. She managed several projects designed to encourage the collaboration of retail establishments in the downtown area. Her lessons went beyond marketing and into the dynamics of the workplace. Her boss was, “very encouraging and understanding that the project was a challenge and stood by me the whole time. “ She summarized her experience by saying that, “I am proud of myself for creating a program that helps the citizens of downtown.”