Like so many other facets of our life, Coronavirus has turned the entire
internship experience on its head. This summer, thousands of college students would have migrated to different cities, different apartments, or different companies to learn about a particular career or company while contributing to their product, strategy and development. Instead, many internship experiences were cancelled or postponed.
However, some companies – and college students – found a way to have the internship experience despite the global pandemic.
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Coronavirus has introduced us to new way of “doing life,” and the virtual internship is just one of the by-products of our new, yet temporary, circumstances. Through the remote internship experience, students can engage with and contribute to a company while building on their own experience and skill set from the comfort of their own home. Though it is not the imagined or hoped for experience, it’s still life-changing, nonetheless.
The best part? Online internships are becoming increasingly popular. Take a look at some of the Remote Internships we’ve found right here on Fastweb.
Campus Food & Nutrition Internship
Provided by: The Humane Society of the United States
Description: The Campus Food & Nutrition Internship is open to students with an interest in farm animal-related issues and advocacy. Intern duties may include conducting campus-specific research and compiling a case study regarding the plant-based options on your campus, conducting plant-based audits of campus menu items, meeting with dining services representatives on campus to discuss plant-based options, gathering new contacts for the team to work with, meeting with any relevant student organizations, and conducting occasional tabling events in the dining halls to sample plant-based menu items, and other duties as necessary.
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Campus & Food Nutrition Internship.
E-Commerce Store Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The E-commerce Store Internship is available to high school, college, and grad school students. As an intern, you will manage store assets such as marketing graphics, product information and videos, pull and review website diagnostic reports, looking for growth in site visitorship and purchase conversion, and analyze our site taxonomy and page performance.
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E-Commerce Store Internship.
Operations Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The Operations Internship is available to undergraduate and graduate students. As an intern, you will help with a variety of analyses, streamline processes and build the next gen Ops dashboard.
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Operations Internship.
Analytics Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The Analytics Internahip is available to students pursuing a degree in economics, math, physics, business, operations research, or other related field. As an intern, you will work closely with the rest of the team to conduct analyses and explore opportunities to grow our business.
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Analytics Internship.
Virtual Real Estate Digital Marketing Internship Program
Provided by: Project Destined, Inc.
Description: The Virtual Real Estate Digital Marketing Internship Program is available to diverse, high school and undergraduate students. As an intern, the 6-week program will explore real estate, the importance of ownership and the power of technology to tell authentic, compelling stories about communities.
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Virtual Real Estate Digital Marketing Internship Program.
Social Media Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The Social Media Internship is available to high school, college, or grad school students. As an intern, you will help grow and cultivate our online community and audience with engaging content, all while maintaining consistency with the company’s overall brand and voice.
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Social Media Internship.
IT Admin Internship
Provided by: Swyft
Description: The IT Admin Internship is available to undergraduate student studying information systems, computer science or equivalent. As an intern, you will handle imaging and distribution of computer and remote office equipment including laptops and desktops for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
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IT Admin Internship.
Editorial Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The Editorial Internship is available to high school, college, and grad school students. As an intern, you will support the editorial team, which is responsible for all instructional and educational materials in our products.
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Editorial Internship.
Remote Internship at Turtle Island Restoration Network
Provided by: Turtle Island Restoration Network
Description: The Remote Internship is available to students interested in the field of legal aid, social media, graphic design, web development, research, advocacy/activism, and journalism. You must present your skills with your cover letter and resume to info@seaturtles.org, including how you see them aligning to be considered for this position.
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Remote Internship with Turtle Island Restoration Network.
Content Internship
Provided by: KiwiCo
Description: The Content Internship is available to high school, college, and grad school students. As an intern, you will be creating and updating at-home DIY activities and content, while aligning to the company’s overall brand.
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Content Internship.
Travel & Hospitality Vertical Internship
Provided by: Swyft
Description: The Travel & Hospitality Vertical Internship is available to marketing students to take a hands-on approach with Swyft’s location sales funnel and lead pipeline. As an intern, you will define and report on location sales direct marketing campaigns; identifying key target audiences and performance objectives.
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Travel & Hospitality Vertical Internship.
What will my Remote Internship look like?
CNN provided an inside look at the remote internship programs of three large, U.S. companies: PepsiCo, Dell and MassMutual. While the internship experience looks drastically different at these three companies, they have all gone above and beyond to ensure that remote interns are learning and engaging with other full-time remote workers, including Vice Presidents and CEOs.
Like many other internship experiences this summer, these companies have shortened the length of time for the summer internship. MassMututal shortened their program from 11 weeks to nine weeks, and PepsiCo opted for six weeks instead of their typical 10 weeks.
Still, interns have been plugged in immediately to the workload and the community. MassMutual hosted a virtual dance party on orientation day and then jumped into team meetings afterwards. Many of the interns are ordering food for lunch and meeting over Zoom to network, chat about projects and build lasting friendships.
During a typical summer internship experience, interns may hear from VIPs at the company once or twice; however, given the fact that these CEOs and COOs are working remotely as well, there is more flexibility for them to engage with interns through lunch Zoom calls, panel discussions and more.
Through the virtual internship experience, MassMutual has paired all interns with a manager, intern coordinator and a buddy to help them navigate this summer. Essentially, each intern has three different people within the company that they can reach out to at any given time for clarification, help and guidance. Dell told
CNN that they had more mentors volunteer to help interns than ever before. In fact, they had to turn people away.
Yes, the internship experience looks a lot different this year, but students are still getting the same benefits – if not more. Check out
remote internships on Fastweb to find an opportunity that’s right for you. Why not make the most of this season and these unprecedented times?
