Internship objective: From day one as a paid intern with Enterprise, you’ll learn what it takes to run a successful business and acquire highly marketable skills and experience pertaining to every aspect of operating a business. And it’s learning by doing, not by getting coffee or filing all day. Our college interns take on the same challenges as our first and second year full-time professionals. It’s a team-based environment where the Enterprise employees are supportive and fun to work with.
About the interning organization: Enterprise is the largest car rental company in North America and arguably the world. We are a $9 billion company with more than 878,000 vehicles in our rental and leasing fleet, more than 64,000 employees and over 6,900 locations in the U.S., Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Semesters interns are needed: Fall, spring, Su I & Su II annually
Number of interns needed: Minimum of 1
Start date: On or near the first day of the semester, negotiable
End date: On or near the last day of the semester, negotiable
Hours per week: 10-15 hours per week/depending upon the number of weeks scheduled to intern.
Academic qualifications: Declared major or minor in the School of Communication
Desired skills and qualifications: Student interns should:
- Have completed either their sophomore or junior year.
- Be interested in a management and sales environment and should have strong multi-tasking skills.
- Be ambitious, creative, personable, resourceful and hard working.
- Like to have fun at work and must enjoy a team environment
Credit: College credit toward communication major, minor or general electives. One hour of college credit is earned for 40 hours of work.
Interested students should visit Web site:
http://www.erac.com/recruit/intern_home.asp?navID=home
Evaluation: The evaluation and grade will be completed by Internship Coordinator Marilyn Kritzman and will be based upon the following:
- The student’s journal/log/observation of all intern activities
- The student’s copy of all work produced
- The student’s learning objectives and progress made toward the learning objectives
- Final paper
- The internship sponsor mid-internship evaluation
- The internship sponsor final evaluation
- Student’s journal/log: 20%
- Student’s work: 20 %
- Paper: 20%
- Internship sponsor mid-internship evaluation: 20%
- Internship sponsor final evaluation: 20%
- E-mail updates to faculty sponsor every month.
- Additional communication via email, phone or in person as needed
- All materials are to be submitted to Marilyn Kritzman on the Wednesday prior to final weeks of the semester/session registered.
- Internship sponsor evaluation due half way through the internship
- Internship sponsor final evaluation due the Wednesday of finals week with the rest of the material. The evaluation may be submitted with the student’s materials in a sealed envelope, or the sponsor may submit it separately by the due date.
Intern sponsor's (at internship site) signature
Coordinator of Undergraduate Internships’ (Marilyn S. Kritzman’s) signature
