Guides: WRIT 0020-307 202430 Critical Writing Seminar: Craft Of Prose: Researching the Job Letter

Finding Career and Internship Resources

Finding jobs and internships can be a challenge, since this information is constantly changing and is not consolidated into a single source. There are a number of ways to find internships and jobs. For your cover letter assignment, we recommend beginning by signing up for a Penn Handshake Account.

Then commence searching the keywords you have developed in class. Use these keywords to search for positions as wel as scan advertisements and announcements. You can also scan the “Writing-Related Internships” listed in your Course Canvas site under the tab of “Cover Letter.”

From here you have a great many sites to search:

Check out internship and fellowship listings from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
Click on the "Information for Students" under a Virtual Career Fair that Penn is facilitating this semester. Browse the list of companies, organizations, and institutions, go to their websites, and locate internships and summer positions.
In addition to Handshake, Penn Career Services also provides links to GameJobHunter (for video game industry) and AdAge (for advertising industry). Select one of those databases to search for opportunities.
Spend time looking at postings on a website for a company or organization in your home town or a place you’d like to be or plan to be this summer. For example, let’s say you intend to be in Philadelphia this summer, and you are interested in working for WHYY. When you go to WHYY’s website, however, you don’t see any internships listed. Don’t stop there. Search on Google for “WHYY, Internships” and you will locate their internships. Be tenacious and try a few different search terms to identify jobs and internships if they don’t show up on an organization’s website.
Some departments at Penn maintain lists of past internships of alums. For example, Penn History and Sociology of Science maintains a listing here.
Professional associations also sometimes maintain lists of internships. For example, the American Association of Medical Colleges maintains a listing of summer undergraduate research programs here.
Do a location-based search using Indeed.com or Monster.com or even Google.com.

Handshake - Penn Career Services
Handshake is Career Services’ powerful platform for University of Pennsylvania students, postdocs and alumni. Handshake uses cutting edge technology to help you more easily connect with employers and source jobs and internships, event information, and schedule appointments with Career Advisors.
Online Subscriptions - Penn Career Services
Career Services at Penn offers access to a number of e-resources to assist you in your job search and career exploration. The resources are listed alphabetically and updated regularly as Career Services acquires new subscriptions. (PennKey login required)
Career Journal
The Wall Street Journal's career center. It contains links to job listings, a place to upload your resume, and articles on salary, hiring information, and job hunting advice.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle has listings for jobs in various academic areas. Access to the full text requires a password. Following the link above will lead you to an authentication page, where you will be required to authenticate yourself as an authorized Penn user.
CollegeJournal.com
A site for students either looking at graduate schools or seeking employment after graduation. It contains salary links, as well as tips for negotiation and setting career goals.
Penn Student Employment Office
Students at the University of Pennsylvania have access to a wide variety of work opportunities, made centrally available through the Office of Student Employment in Student Financial Services. Learn about employment options and search open positions here.

Knock Em Dead Secrets and Strategies for First Time Job Seekers by Martin Yate
ISBN: 0983973466
Publication Date: 2014
It's tough landing that first job out of school and starting your climb up the professional ladder in such an uncertain world. In Knock 'em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers, you will learn how to climb the ladder of success and get what you want out of life.