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.

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Places & Faces

Enjoy this look at some great photos from the 2025 Spring Break externship program.

What Is an Externship (and How to Get One)?

Choosing a career path can be difficult and even nerve-racking when you’re applying to jobs but don’t even know what a day in the role would look like. Externships, typically short programs where you shadow a professional, can help give …

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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 know …

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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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Resources

Consult the slides from the first orientation for 2025 Externs.

Externship Budget Worksheet

If you’re applying for an externship opportunity, please be certain you understand that funding from the CLS is available and …

On Sunday, November 3, 2024, the CLS shared information about the 2025 Spring Break Externship Program. Review the slides or …

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