Internships Promotion
Hello students,
Oakland University Career Services recommends that students do at least one internship. According to their website, 2 out 3 interns are offered a full-time job.
Here are some statistics from the OU Career Services' website:
Visit Career Services at 154 North Foundation Hall to get your resume revised and do a mock interview. Check out their website: http://www.oakland.edu/careerservices
COM 491 is an internship class for the department of communication and journalism. Here is the description:
http://www.oakland.edu/com/careers
Oakland University Career Services recommends that students do at least one internship. According to their website, 2 out 3 interns are offered a full-time job.
Here are some statistics from the OU Career Services' website:
- 31% of their time working on analytical problems
- 23% overseeing all or part of a project
- 19% using and improving their communication skills by corresponding with customers/clients, staff members, etc.
- Conversion rate increased from 35.6% to 56.6% since 2001
- Employers extended offers of full-time employment to an average of 67.7 percent of their 2007-08 interns
- More than four out of five offers (83.6 percent) were accepted
- Just under one-third (31.5%) reported higher retention after the first year of hire among their converted interns and co-ops than with all other hires.
- 39.1% reported better retention five years after hire among those they converted from their program than among their other hires.
- Provides well-prepared entry-level workers
- Enables employers to develop new projects with student assistance
- Increases employer visibility in education
- 7 out of 10 employers use program as a tool for hiring entry-level college talent
Visit Career Services at 154 North Foundation Hall to get your resume revised and do a mock interview. Check out their website: http://www.oakland.edu/careerservices
COM 491 is an internship class for the department of communication and journalism. Here is the description:
http://www.oakland.edu/com/careers
Promotion Poster
Here is my final project for COM 491. The project looks like a website for a news media outlet. On the bottom, there is a sticky note and hand made pockets filled with brochures and promotional pens.