Berkeley Career Engagement Internship Resources
- View our Internships for Grad Students & Postdocs Handshake Collection – a central area for opportunities to be automatically populated from preset filters in Handshake.
- Make an appointment with a career educator for help identifying and applying for internships.
PhD Experiential Programs
Experiential learning includes activities such as internships, mentoring programs and externships. These experiences provide exposure to professional roles in business, government and/ or nonprofit sectors. They can also offer opportunities to develop skills, and translate knowledge and insights into practical application.
Immersive career experiences provide graduate students, PhDs and postdocs with the opportunity to:
- Apply their knowledge and skills
- Observe and engage in work practices, and
- Explore organizational cultures and career pathways outside the faculty career track.
A few programs to try out:
- InterSECT is an online library of true-to-life job simulation exercises (“job sims”). They can help you test out a career field in a low-risk way, before investing time and energy in a more time-intensive form of experiential learning, such as an internship. Some examples are below; view the full catalog of science sims or humanities sims for more.
- Parker Dewey micro-internships are short-term, paid, professional projects that allow you to gain experience and explore careers at top employers.
Internship and Fellowship Programs
Increasingly, employers offer internship and fellowship programs designed specifically for advanced degree students. Review the sampling of opportunities below to get a sense of the various types of internship and fellowship programs available for PhD and master’s students as well as postdocs. Whether or not you decide to further pursue employment in your internship or fellowship field, the experience can be instrumental in testing options and further clarifying your career goals.