VIP Internship

VIP Summer Internship

The VIP Professional Development Summer Internship includes a combination of classroom and extra-curricular experiences to build the skillset needed to be successful after graduation. Program activities include alumni/professional mentoring programming, guest lectures, workshops, and enhanced Career Services programming.

Why an Internship?

The VIP Professional Development internship is a necessary component of this program. It is key that the student perspective is incorporated into the design of the program, to ensure effective results. The VIP Intern will assist in program development through research and benchmarking, website development, resource development, and event and program planning. This also allows the interns to build upon their own professional skills in an internship setting.

Each summer, new interns will be brought on to improve upon the program for the upcoming year. This gives an opportunity for students to enhance the professional development program for all Mines students over time. As the world changes, so will students’ experiences. The perspective student interns bring will always be invaluable in keeping the program relevant and modern. In sum, this program will continue to grow and change throughout the years to better help students at Mines gain skills for the workplace.

Graduates of Mines are unquestionably academically advanced, and the VIP Professional Development will bolster their professional skills.

Becoming an intern will allow you to:

Research professional development competencies required for recent graduates to be successful
Benchmark professional development programming
Analyze gaps for Mines graduates to become distinctive in professional development characteristics
Interact with alumni and other professionals
Identify world-class experts and speakers on professional development
Develop online resources and content for the VIP website
Create modules to be used in curriculum
Create workshops and events for the following semesters

Minimum Qualifications

To qualify, students must be undergraduates and enrolled for the fall semester at Mines.

APPLY ON DIGGERNET

“We recognize internships are an important component of the academic journey of students. Further, internships that focus specifically on professional development provide an unparalleled experience for the VIP interns, as well as being highly regarded by future employers. We see the internships as a critical component of a best-in-class professional development program, providing hands-on professional development training for the interns while also providing continuous improvement of the VIP Professional Development content.”

Fran Vallejo ’87 and Scott Irvine ’87