Application Process

First and second-year students are encouraged to apply for as many externship opportunities as interest them, though each chosen extern will only be offered ONE externship. Applying for more externships increases your chances of being selected. To apply to be an extern, you must submit a resume and separate application letter for each externship through InterviewTRAK by no later than Midnight on January 21, 2008.

If you are not already activated on InterviewTrak, please read below: To register and be activated for InterviewTRAK, you must have your resume reviewed by a CAPS staff member and sign the InterviewTRAK activation agreement. You may do this by either setting up an appointment at 773/702-7040 or coming to CAPS walk-in hours on the third floor of Ida Noyes Hall, Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

If you are not already activated on UChicagoTrak, you must create an account for yourself prior to your InterviewTrak appointment at CAPS. To be taken to UChicagoTrak, please click https://caps.uchicago.edu/uchicagotrak/. This takes just a few minutes!

For further information, on InterviewTrak procedures please click here.

Selection Criteria
Students will be selected for an externship by the Alumni application reviewers on the basis of the quality of their resumes and application letters. Students need not show expertise or experience in the field of the externship for which they apply, but must demonstrate compelling interest and curiosity in their application letters about their host’s field as a possible career option. There will be no interviews.

Compensation
Externships are unpaid. Travel and/or housing expenses (if necessary) are neither reimbursed nor subsidized. However, there are many externships in Chicago, as well as in large metropolitan areas you might call home all over the country including: London, New York, LA, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, and abroad, and others. For a complete list, click here.

Early Bird Travel Award Opportunity
If you submit your application by the early bird deadline, Midnight on January 9, 2008, and you are selected for an externship, you will be entered into a drawing to receive a $300 scholarship which can be used to pay for airfare, accommodations or other travel expenses.

Information Sessions
For further information about the program including: individual externship opportunities, application requirements, application letters, and previous externs’ experiences please attend the following information session:

Thursday, January 17, 2008
East Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
(Free pizza provided!)

If you have any questions, please contact: Caryn Carter, Assistant Director of Employer Relations, CAPS at cdcarter@uchicago.edu. or
Kristen Loyd, Assistant Director of College & Campus Programs, at kloyd@uchicago.edu.

Requirements of Externs
If you are selected to be a Career Extern, you will be obligated to:

1. Attend a mandatory orientation session in early March at the Alumni House (5555 S. Woodlawn Avenue).
2. Sign a mandatory responsibility agreement and return it to the ABG Externship Coordinator.
3. Send a thank you note to your alumni sponsor and anyone else you spoke at length with or who may have helped you at your externship site within a week of your externship’s end.
4. Send a thank you note to the Alumni Board of Governors within a week of your externship’s end.
5. Write a 3-4 paragraph evaluation of your externship experience and submit it to the ABG Externship Coordinator by the deadline TBA.
6. Complete the Extern Experience survey which will be emailed to you after your externship’s end by the ABG Externship Coordinator.

Failure to complete any of the above requirements could lead to your de-activation on InterviewTrak. For further information about the consequences of de-activation, please click here.

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