Externships & Shadowing

Here you’ll find guidelines for job shadowing to learn about careers. For industry-specific advice, be sure to check out the Career Communities.

What is Job Shadowing? Definition, Benefits, and How to Set It Up

The job search is exciting because there are so many options for what you can do — but for the same reason, it can also be overwhelming. How can you figure out what you want to do if you don’t …

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How a Cold Email Can Secure Your Next Job or Internship

by Philip Kiely ’20

As a student at Grinnell College, I spent countless hours in a familiar loop: find an internship that looked promising, upload my résumé to the application portal, re-type all of the information from my résumé into …

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Report: The Multiple Perspectives of a Cohort Externship

Last March, Grace Gilday ’25, experienced a new model externship in New York City, orchestrated by Sasha Aslanian ’90. In lieu of spending three to five days with one host, Grace visited five different workplaces on five different days. From …

By Robin Bourjaily
Robin Bourjaily Assistant Director, Exploratory Career Community
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