{"id":103,"date":"2016-08-22T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/asb\/why-intern\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:52:37","slug":"why-intern","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/asb\/why-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Internships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancell School of Business strongly encourages students to pursue internships and other experiential learning opportunities to help guide them to a personally satisfying career placement and to ensure that they will graduate with important professional experience.<\/p>\n<p>Internships are an <u>excellent<\/u> way to gain \u201creal world\u201d experience in your chosen career or major and they are the number one way companies hire new staff!\u00a0 For more information please contact the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/\">Career Success Center<\/a><\/strong> located in the Westside Campus Student Center, level 3, or log into your <a href=\"https:\/\/wcsu.joinhandshake.com\/login\"><strong>Handshake<\/strong><\/a> account, available through the Career Success Center.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE): The starting salary for graduates that had paid interns is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naceweb.org\/job-market\/internships\/paid-interns-co-ops-see-greater-offer-rates-and-salary-offers-than-their-unpaid-classmates\/\">over $14,000 more<\/a> than graduates without a paid internship.#\u00a0 On average, it takes interns 1.9 months to attain their first job compared to the 4.34 months for non-interns.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The top ten reasons to complete an internship<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To put the lessons you\u2019ve learned into action in the workplace<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To practice the essential skills of collaboration, communication and critical thinking in a real world setting<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To establish relationships with mentors,<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To reap new experience and expertise<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To meet and network with professionals<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To demonstrate your abilities to potential employers<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To try out a company to see if they are a good fit<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To get a feel for your chosen career<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To give a company the opportunity to see how you fit in with their corporate culture.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">To increase your chances of getting a job because internships are the number one way companies hire new staff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhere do our students intern?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n* This list is intended to showcase where our students have interned recently. Employers and available internship opportunities change each semester.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Ability Beyond<\/li>\n<li>Alliant<\/li>\n<li>Axa Advisors<\/li>\n<li>Boehringer Ingleheim<\/li>\n<li>Cartus<\/li>\n<li>Castle Hill Financial Group LLC<\/li>\n<li>Cohn Reznick<\/li>\n<li>Deloitte<\/li>\n<li>E&amp;Y<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise<\/li>\n<li>Equale and Cirone, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Allen Global<\/li>\n<li>Fosina Marketing Group<\/li>\n<li>Guideposts<\/li>\n<li>IBM<\/li>\n<li>Indeed<\/li>\n<li>International Business Machines (IBM)<\/li>\n<li>KPMG<\/li>\n<li>List Services Corp.<\/li>\n<li>Manzi Insurance<\/li>\n<li>Marcum<\/li>\n<li>Merrill Lynch<\/li>\n<li>McGladrey<\/li>\n<li>Northwestern Mutual<\/li>\n<li>Orion Mobility<\/li>\n<li>Praxair<\/li>\n<li>Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLC (PWC)<\/li>\n<li>Reynolds and Rowella, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Savings Bank of Danbury<\/li>\n<li>Scalzo Property Management<\/li>\n<li>United Technologies Corporation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View more information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/start-an-internship\/\">WCSU internship program requirements and expectations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancell School of Business strongly encourages students to pursue internships and other experiential learning opportunities to help guide them to a personally satisfying career placement and to ensure that they will graduate with important professional experience. 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