Goals and benefits

Career Services Building, click for location information.

Career Services Building (0128)
Corner of Washington Street & West Campus Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
phone 540-231-6241 fax 540-231-3293 www.career.vt.edu

Career Services is for all students: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior,
and graduate level, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Co-op / Internship Program

Undergraduate Co-op / Internship Program
Goals for students
•	Enhance students' educational experience with real-world career-related work experience.
•	Develop skills and knowledge applicable to their career fields.
•	Explore, through on-the-job experience, the career options related to their academic work, and to verify interest in those career options.
•	Increase students' maturity level by exposure to the professional work environment.
•	Build credentials to enhance their opportunities at graduation for employment or admission to graduate school.

Benefits to employers
•	Provide pre-professional personnel who are relatively less expensive than professional staff, but are effective and highly motivated.
•	Meet seasonal needs and release professional staff from work that can be delegated.
•	Good public relations on the campus when co-op / internship students have positive experiences with your organization.
•	Opportunity to try out prospective future employees through the framework of co-op / internships. However, there is no obligation to offer a co-op / internship student employment at graduation.