10 Best Internships Out of 9,000+ Still Available
Probably the best recruiting-related blog is Cheezhead, written by Joel Cheesman and his team of staff writers. Today’s article was great, well, mostly great. It included a list of the best internships and that was great, but it also made the fundamental error in not recognizing that in order to call a job an internship that job must be career-related.
You cannot, for example, put a finance major in the mail room and accurately call that an internship any more than you can refer to a job cleaning toilets as an internship, which is exactly what the article did. These “poop-swabber” jobs can only be described as internships for those whose chosen career path is in the cleaning industry. I trust that the error was an oversight and will be corrected by the good people at Cheezhead.
That said, here are Cheezhead’s choice for the top 10 organizations for which to intern:
- The New York Times
- National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
- White House
- Microsoft
- Nike
- St. Jude Medical
- Walt Disney
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Teach for America
By the way, all of these organizations hire interns in a variety of areas so accounting students, for example, should consider each of these rather than just PriceWaterhouseCoopers as each organization has accountants working for it and therefore may have internship opportunities for accountants. Similarly, software engineers shouldn’t look just at Google and Microsoft as each organization is likely at times to have information technology internships available. Also, keep in mind that internships with the organizations listed here are extremely hard to come by but we typically have thousands of internship opportunities listed on our site even during off-peak times like July. Today, for example, we have well over 9,000 internship job postings on our site.
