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Updated 9/13/2015

Internships are a great way to advance your skills, explore career possibilities and strengthen your resume. We highly encourage our students to pursue internships both locally and nationally.

Getting an internship, like getting a job, is about networking, volume and persistence. Basic advice:

• Register with Career Sevices, take advantage of their mailing list, resume and interview practice services
• Do every mock interview you can. If you tried to run a marathon without training, you'd end up puking and collapsing. That's not how you want the interview with your dream company to go. Your career is a bit more important than that.
• Talk to every person working in the field that you can. When they come to campus, go grill them about what their job is like, what advice they have.
• Network. Student groups have students constantly graduating and getting jobs and becoming the ones doing the hiring.
• Find out what companies want and expect years before you apply, so that you can come in with the skills they want.
• It's a volume game. Getting an interview, getting an offer have a signficant amount of chance involved, so tilt the odds in your favor.

This page is intended to keep notes on internship opportunities that have been particularly brought to our attention.

Here are some notable big company internships that have come to our attention one way or another. Wal-Mart, Tyson, American Airlines, IBM, Lockheed and Boeing have all come to campus regularly.

NASA Pathways

Like many top companies, NASA can afford to limit their new-grad hiring to their own interns that they've already seen in actoin and built a relationship with. A very high percentage of Pathways interns get a job offer.

Plus, we've had excellent students there already, so they consider UTRGV a good place to recruit from.

Applications open the week of Sep 12

Google Internships in Engineering & Technology

In the past year, Google has ramped up a diversity initiative and started working directly with a small number of regional Universities. They want to broaden their pool from just the traditional top Universities, and they are rightly going after under-represented groups. They have contacted us numerous times to share information and encourage our students to apply there.

Engineering Practicum, Summer 2017 (applications open Oct 3- Dec 2)

This is the gateway for 1st and 2nd year students. If you get in here, their goal is for you to succeed, get the Software Engineering Internship, and get a job offer.

Software Engineering Internship, Summer 2017 (applications open Sep 19 - Dec 2)

Competing with students at all levels. Again, Google wants every internship to result in a job offer. It just makes good sense.

Engineering Residency

A new-grad program where you work for them on the cheap for a year (like an intern, and yes, cheap is relative) so that they can try to build your skill set up to what they need. This is Google putting their money where their mouth is about broading the pool from just the traditionally top candidates.

Technical Development Guide

Explains the skills they are looking for in an intern. Since Google is near the top of the heap, you can expect their standards to be pretty universally great to shoot for.

Nike

Applications due Feb 13th

• http://jobs.nike.com/beaverton/digital-%EF%B9%A0-technology/jobid8344793-nike-digital-undergraduate-intern-nike-jobs
• http://jobs.nike.com/beaverton/it/jobid8344790-technology-undergraduate-intern-nike-jobs