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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Professional & Personal Thank You Notes

At a recent leadership conference, CLS Senior Director Dani Perkins heard from multiple employers that while cover letters are often ignored in the hiring process, post-interview thank you notes may be added in the plus column to a candidate’s hiring …

By Robin Bourjaily

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