Kish STEM students benefit from ‘Smitty’ Assistantship
Three Kishwaukee College students participated in science-based learning opportunities during the 2024-2025 school year thanks to the Robert L. “Smitty” Smith Assistantship.
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Internships
"On average, college graduates who have an internship on their resumes are 12% more
likely to be hired and earn $7,000 more than graduates who did not."
-CBC News
What is an internship?
An internship gives you a unique, on-the-job perspective of the career path you have chosen and helps connect classroom knowledge to a real work environment. Internships can be paid, unpaid, for academic credit or not.
What are the benefits?
- Gain workplace experience in your field
- See how classroom education translates into the real work world
- Test-drive your career before you graduate
- Network with professionals in your field
- Connect with mentors and build references
Credit internships are supervised by appointed faculty members and certain criteria
must be met to receive credit. A list of departments offering Academic Credit is available
can be found in the Course Catalog.
A non-credit internship is an excellent way to build your skills and experience in
your field of study. Non-credit internships can be paid, unpaid or informational.
The Career Services can assist you in researching and obtaining a non-credit Internship.
- Complete 12 credit hours or be accepted into your major/program
- 2.5 GPA or higher is advisable
- Below are some questions to ask yourself:
- What do I want to get out of an Internship?
- Which types of organizations do I want to pursue?
- Do I want to stay local or willing to travel?
- Write you Resume
- Develop your Elevator Speech
- Ask your instructors for leads
- Create an account on Handshake and search the Internship opportunities.
- www.techcareers.com
- www.gamasutra.com
- www.rileyguide.com/intern.html
- www.idealist.org
News & Events
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Tre Jackson hired as Kish College Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Kishwaukee College hired Tre Jackson as the next head coach for the Women’s Basketball team. Jackson starts the 2024-2025 season as the 13th coach in program history.
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