Marketing Internships

All majors in the College of Business offer internship opportunities. In addition, departments in the college provide an internship coordinator that works with students and employers to ensure that the internship experience is meaningful.

Each year more than 300 business students participate in internship and professional practice programs with business and government to gain practical work experience related to their academic career goals.

Two options for internships: If you don’t need academic credit, then there is no “academic oversight.” If you are interested in academic credit, meet with your academic advisor to see how the internship credit will count toward graduation (Marketing elective? General university elective?).

Then complete the internship packet, being sure to get all signatures, and work with your Internship Coordinator (either Dr. Singley or Dr. Ishida, depending on whether the internship is for the analytics sequence. Dr. Ishida works with all marketing analytics internships, while Dr. Singley coordinates all other internships).

Internship Packets

Depending on your internship program, a form is required to register for an internship.

Get the forms

Internship Coordinator

Dr. Rodger Singley
Professor Emeritus
Internship Coordinator

rbsingl@ilstu.edu

Dr. Chiharu Ishida-Lambert
Professor
Internship Coordinator

(309) 438-3261
cishida@@IllinoisState.edu

How is a credit-based Internship graded?

Activity	Portion of final grade
Mid-term Progress Report	5 percent
Supervisor's (Employer's) Mid-term Evaluation	10 percent
Daily Log	10 percent
Final Report	50 percent
Supervisor's (Employer's) Evaluation	25 percent
Total	100 percent

How do I begin an Internship?

Where Can I find an internship besides Google and job search engines?

Department of Marketing LinkedIn (private) – one must be invited or request to join

Handshake - if you have yet to have access to Handshake, please access the Handshake page to follow the steps to join and start exploring jobs/internships, events, networking with campus recruiters, employees and fellow students, and researching employers. The employers have been pre-approved by us in almost all cases, meaning they do want to hire ISU students. You can use location-based search by entering your zip code. Be sure to set your profile with your major, graduation dates, and any preferences for jobs and internships so the listing will be customized to you.

Hire-A-Redbird - is the ISU Career Center maintain its own database for internships and jobs.

Subscribe to Internship Email – to begin receiving emails from us as we come across new internships

How can I tell if an internship posting is legitimate?

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