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Real World Experiences Prepare
You For Life

While more than 80% of Hollins students have at least one internship during their four years, many have two or more. Internships take our students all over the country, from hospitals to newsrooms, from museums to government agencies, and from movie studios to law firms. Hollins students have interned with The London Times and Miramax Films; with ABC News and Time Inc.; with the U.S. Senate and the Smithsonian Institution. Click on the lists to the right to see our students’ recent internships.
   Many students seek help in finding internships from Hollins’ Career Center.
   Hollins places such importance on internships because they help our students test out careers in the workplace. They also help students in finding a job after graduation. Interns tend to receive more job offers and higher salaries than graduates who have not had work experience. On average within one year of graduation, 76% of Hollins graduates are employed, and 22% attend graduate or professional school.
Because of my past internship with The Roanoker and Blue Ridge Country magazines, I qualified for a position as a two-month summer intern in Marie Claire's art and photography department. I met professional photographers and organized negatives and prints from previous issues. I also delivered props to photo shoots and was able to observe how a high-fashion magazine editorial office operates.
Lisa O'Quinn '07
(photo by Skip Higgins)

Erin Adams '08 spent the month of January interning at Dr. Ellen Leibenluft’s lab at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Leibenluft’s lab conducts research on bipolar children and is part of the Pediatric and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch at the NIMH. To learn more about her internship, click here.
  During summer 2007, Erin volunteered with Hands for Help Nepal, a Nepali-based NGO that focuses on placing foreign volunteers around Nepal to teach English, work in construction or at orphanages, or to volunteer at health posts. To learn more about Erin's experience, read her blog.
Candice Dalton ’07 spent the summer after her junior year interning for the Office of Management and Budget in the legislative affairs branch. She worked closely with career and appointed staff in the Executive Office of the President, where she handled correspondence, updated talking points, and delivered drop-offs to the West Wing, Capitol, Senate, and House. She also attended hearings and prepared charts of past votes on line-item vetoes. After graduation, she plans to return to Washington, D.C., and work for the OMB.

Recent Internships Completed by Hollins Students:
January 2008
January 2007
January 2006
Links of Interest:
January Short Term
Career Center
Alumnae Accomplishments
CONTACT
Tina Rolen
Director of the Career
Center
(540) 362-6364
cdc@hollins.edu


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