Internships and jobs offer outstanding opportunities to gain essential career and professional experience. DVC offers online resources to help you identify employers and make connections to jobs and internships that will provide you with opportunities to apply your classroom learning on the job and gain experience to advance in your career.
DVC's Online Job Board
DVC Career Services partners with Handshake for all online job, internship, and volunteer opportunities. DVC's online job board is a one-stop shop for all your career needs - find job and internship opportunities, attend career fairs & events, schedule appointments with DVC Career Services, and more!
However, be cautious and vigilant when applying for opportunities. DVC Career Services staff review all jobs posted on the DVC online job board to the best of our ability. When using external job sites or other search strategies, be aware that there can be fraudulent job postings.
Internships
An internship is a supervised pre-professional learning experience in which students apply their skills and knowledge in a professional setting. By offering their time, talent, and enthusiasm, interns contribute to an organization's mission and goals while gaining valuable skills for the future and seeing if a career is right for them. Most internships are temporary assignments that last approximately three months to a year.
How Do Internships Work?
- An internship position must be set up to fulfill a set of goals for professional development.
- The internship must include a system for feedback and communication. Regular feedback sessions should be formally arranged to facilitate consistent supervision, guidance, and constructive criticism every week.
- Internship positions may be either paid or unpaid, depending upon the level of workThey may be short-term and may or may not require you to earn college credit. Some internships are referred to as Service Learning, where the intern works at a community organization and then writes a paper or creates and number of hours. It may be short-term, may or may not require you to earn college credit. Some internships are referred to as Service Learning, where the intern works at a community organization, and then they write a paper or create a presentation that describes their experience.
Work Experience
Looking to get college credit for your work? Once you land a job be sure to check out Work Experience to find out more about how to get college credit for your paid and unpaid work experience.
Volunteer Resources
Here are some resources where you can find volunteer and community service opportunities where you can gain valuable skills and build your professional network.
- VolunteerMatch - Resource to connect volunteers with organizations, causes, and volunteer opportunities; virtual options are available
- HandsOnBayArea - Find volunteer opportunities and projects in your community