⦿ Receive high-quality work from future professionals who are anxious to display their newfound capabilities and education.
⦿ Obtain 40 hours of professional work for 15 weeks without having to pay anything.
⦿ Create a network of connections with high-quality future professionals who know and understand their company and have developed a desire to work there.
⦿ Assists students in transitioning from a high-quality education into future professional careers.
⦿ Creates professional networks for students with industry and career professionals who can mentor, support, and assist them in their future professional careers.
⦿ Enhances the stature of BYUH in providing students prepared to succeed in their future jobs and careers.
Through on-campus project-based experiential learning, students receive academic credit while gaining valuable real-life work experience in their chosen fields. In turn, organizations receive the equivalent work output of a full-time team of college interns working and collaborating on a semester-long project.
Through sponsoring an on-campus experiential learning project, companies and organizations receive the equivalent work output of a full-time team of college interns working and collaborating on a semester-long project. In turn, students receive academic credit while gaining valuable real-life work experience in their chosen field.
Questions are answered by students, Nichol Holbrook, Samuel Tobon, and Joy Tang, who took the program.
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1. What work experience did you receive that will help your resume?
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2. Were you able to test drive your major? What did you learn?
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3. Did you use the tools you learned in the classroom in a professional setting? If so, what experiences did you gain using the tools you learned in a professional setting?
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4. What types of people were you able to network with? Did you network with people in your intended career field?
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5. What experiences did you gain working with professionals doing professional work?
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6. What skills did you develop that will help you succeed in a full-time internship and in your full-time job upon graduation?
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7. Were you able to work for a company in your home country?
a. If so, what opportunities were made available because of it?
b. If not, what opportunities were made available to find for working for a foreign company?
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8. Did gaining three college credits help you towards graduation? If so, what did it help you with?
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9. What impact did all these things, without leaving campus and continuing to take classes, have on you?
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10. Why is on-campus project based experiential learning important? What is it about on-campus internships that make it your passport to your future?