Internships

Students who wish to fulfill their internship requirement this summer or fall 2012 semester must submit their proposal on Friday, March 23, 2012.

Students will not be permitted to register for MGMT 489 until their proposal has been accepted.

For more information....

Internship Information Sessions:

Wednesday, February 29, 1:45

Thursday, March 1, 12:15

Both sessions in Owen 202

ALSO, see the important internship document.

Information for internships is available in this important document. ALL Management majors should download and read this document very carefully.

Internship Fast Facts:

This is a requirement for graduation (Mgmt 499: Directed Research is an alternative to Mgmt 489)
An internship is normally completed in the senior year
Student must have 2.0 cumulative GPA (overall/major)
The internship is project based. Interns must produce a project deliverable. (it is not a co-op program)
Enrolling in the Mgmt 489 course, and the corresponding coursework, is part of the internship
Internship may be paid or unpaid
If performed where employed, internship may not be part of your regular job
Your first step in meeting the internship requirement is to submit an internship project proposal. Information on this proposal can be found here.

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Internships must produce a product. What does this mean?

Rather than simply carrying out a task for your host, your internship must involve a large degree of your creativity to plan, design and execute a project. The project must have a beginning and an end-- the end must result in a deliverable you can clearly identify, describe, and measure. This deliverable must make a significant contribution to the organization.

The Mgmt 489 requirement:

MGMT 489 will be offered only in the Fall and Spring semesters. It is a regular class that meets throughout the semester. There are assignments and opportunities to develop the internship deliverables.

You will not be permitted to enroll in MGMT 489 until you have an internship proposal that has been approved by the Internship Coordinator, your Internship Advisor and the host at your internship site. The proposal approval process can take a month or more, so plan ahead.

Students will be prohibited from enrolling in the MGMT 489 course BEFORE beginning the project. This means that the project-based internship:

● …may be started and completed concurrently with MGMT 489 (as we have done in the past), OR…

● …may be started prior to enrolling in the MGMT 489 course. (If a student chooses this option, the student must inform the Internship Coordinator and the Internship Advisor of this choice prior to starting the internship project.)

Your first step....

Your first step in meeting the internship requirment is to submit an internship project proposal. Information on this proposal can be found in this document.

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Finding an internship:

You may utilize your own contacts and interests to arrange for an internship host. For instance, if you have an interest in a specific industry, you can make contact with organizations in that industry to discuss a potential internship.

Many internship possibilities can be found on the UNC Asheville Career Center website.

Other possibilites will be added here as they are received:

US government - search this site for internships

Find Great People (Contact Jes Garner Williams, Business Dev. Mgr. in the Asheville office)

Focus Marketing

EPSILON

ASAP