About Peak Scholars’ Internship Board
Building opportunities for local students
Gain Experience
Receive hands-on experience and client exposure by interning for a small business or shadowing a working professional
Be Curious
Explore a range of jobs and test out what career path is right for you.
Develop Skills
A great opportunity to get your foot in the door and learn skills that are career specific.
Get Recommendations
Impress admissions councilors and future employers by obtaining professional references, contacts and recommendations.
Experience is Priceless.
A Place for Opportunities
Peak Scholars’ Voluntary Internship Board is a place where local businesses can post shadowing and internship opportunities to the community. The board was created to bridge the gap between students and local businesses. Peak Scholars has no control over internships or shadows. The Board is simply a place to receive information about local intern and shadow opportunities.
A Win-Win Situation
By offering an internship or shadowing opportunity, small businesses can give back to the community, work with enthusiastic volunteers, receive extra help with projects, and find potential employees. In return, interns gain valuable experience and much more.
High school, college and post grad students struggle with huge life decisions about colleges, majors, and career paths. Internships allow students to really get a glimpse of a potential career path, become part of a team, see if they enjoy the work, sharpen their skills, and gain resume worthy experience that is necessary in today’s competitive college admission and job environment. A positive intern experience can lead to new contacts, newly found motivation, confidence and excitement toward a career path, and hopefully a strong professional reference.
How It Works?
Local companies post internship positions on our Peak Scholars’ Internship Board. Internships requirements are all subject to the individual company running the internship or shadow opportunity. Students browse and choose internships from a variety of fields. Students select an internship and email the contact email. The company will then reply with further details about their internship or shadow dates.
All interns and shadowers are volunteers that can end their intern or shadow whenever they want. They can be paid or unpaid and can range from an hour to a couple months depending on the local business offering the internship or shadow position.
Top Reasons to Intern
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Make better career choices
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Future Employers look for candidates with hands-on work experience.
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Show college admissions that you are responsible, self motivated, focused, and hard working.
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Real-word experience improves your academic work.
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Professional contacts in the field can help you find future employment.
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Most employers hire successful interns first!
“Parents who today are key influencers in their child’s career decision-making need to understand how to advise their children based on current data on the employment landscape. Yesterday it may have been sufficient to advise children to take a summer off, or to take a summer job as a babysitter or lifeguard. Today, content-rich internship experience is expected by employers, and more than 80% of graduating college students at the top U.S. universities have had at least one internship. Parents need to guide their children to seek meaningful internships that provide learning, growth and networking opportunities starting freshmen year or earlier.”
“I think having an internship on your resume when you apply for college really shows that you’re thinking about your future…Those are the students that are going to succeed in the classroom.”
“Graduating students with paid or unpaid internships on their résumé have a much better chance at landing a full-time position upon graduation. Students are doing internships as undergraduates, and it is now not unusual for recent grads to take an unpaid internship with hopes of turning it into a permanent position or at least making some contacts and building their résumé.”
“Good academic advisers know the value of internships and encourage their students to pursue those opportunities, and diligent students do. But the role of the University is to prepare all students to enter the workforce, not to say smart students will prepare themselves.
If that logic were applied to the classroom, quality would greatly suffer. Professors would say, ‘This is the date of the final exam and those of you that are smart will prepare yourselves’ without incorporating homework, readings, and other assignments to ensure that students are ready. If the real world is the ultimate final exam, then internships should be one of those assignments that prepare us.”
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