Internship Program
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The Internship Program at PMC
Recognizing a fundamental link between a liberal arts education and the professional world, Pine Manor College integrates the internship experience heavily into the curriculum. Although all students are encouraged to participate in at least one internship before senior year, each Pine Manor student must complete a senior level internship during fall semester of senior year. The PMC Internship combines student's academic knowledge with practical experience in the workplace, while providing students with the opportunity to explore career options and develop the leadership skills employers seek. Many PMC interns are offered permanent positions at their sites. After working with top professionals at Boston's best corporations, hospitals, museums, laboratories, publications and social service agencies, PMC seniors feel prepared to make informed career choices.
Exploration
Finding the right career can be one of the biggest challenges of your life. At Pine Manor College, you'll have the opportunity to explore a variety of career options through the Pine Manor Internship Program. With over a thousand internship sites throughout Boston, you can discover and shape your career interests in almost every field imaginable. You'll also meet regularly with faculty advisors and other student interns in similar fields to discuss your experiences and impressions. When you graduate, you'll be able to make informed career choices. The Pine Manor Internship Program lets you explore your options and prepares you to succeed in your professional life.
Experience
Whatever your future career plans are, your Pine Manor internship is sure to be a rewarding and challenging experience in itself. Pine Manor interns have written articles for Boston Magazine; they've worked as counselors at the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange; they've organized special events at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel and taught at the foundation for Children with AIDS; they've worked with lawyers and criminologists at the District Attorney's Office and served as the Assistant Producers at local television stations. When you're on-site, you're on the job. You're given full-fledged projects-and your supervisor will expect as much from you as from your co-workers. In the end, your internship pays off personally as well as professionally, as you gain confidence, maturity, and a sense of pride from your "real world" accomplishments.
Education
Once you select your internship, you will have lots of great educational resources to draw from as you shape your career plans. You join a team that includes your faculty sponsor, students in similar internships, your site supervisor, and the Internship Coordinator. Your faculty sponsor meets with you to establish internship objectives and grading criteria. Your sponsor also communicates with your site supervisor about your progress and visits you at your internship site. Meanwhile, you keep a journal, evaluate your own progress mid-semester, and write a final report to be kept on file so other students can learn from it. A great strength of the Internship Program is the weekly seminar with your peers in similar internships.
Employment
When you're ready to graduate, your Pine Manor internship will have prepared you for your next step: getting a job. Your hands-on experience in the working world, combined with our career skills workshops, will place you in a strong position. By working and gaining experience at your internship site, you'll also make valuable contacts and build a network of colleagues you can call on when you're ready to start your career. You're even likely to graduate with your first professional job in hand—many Pine Manor students are offered permanent positions at their internship sites.