TEC Internships for Boston and MetroArea

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The Education Cooperative (TEC) provides students with unique opportunities to explore future career direction through the innovative Internship Program. TEC's Internship program provides a meaningful, hands-on experience in a supervised professional environment that helps to encourage students to realize their full potential. Our internships are time-limited work experiences with defined goals that take place in a professional work setting of varying types.

TEC Internships are one important way students can gain experience and begin to make contact with their chosen careers. These opportunities are available to both high school and college students.

Internships help to give you answers
Internships are experiences offered to help apply what is learned in the classroom. They can play a crucial role in every stage of career planning.

Call it project-based, shadowing or working independently, the main purpose is that students gain benefits such as:

• Interning in a job related to a potential major
• Clarifying career goals
• Gaining experience for a resume
• Making potential contacts for a future job search
• Academic planning
• Learning professional behavior

This opportunity allows students to visualize their futures. It can provide each intern with the opportunity to identify likes and dislikes regarding certain careers, departments in a company, office atmospheres, etc. Students should consider these internships as a "test-drive" of a career.

How does the TEC Internship work?

TEC high school internships are available to students who have finished two years of high school and complete the initial assessment screening process. TEC's Signature Internship experience is a custom 60-hour internship over a period of a minimum of four consecutive weeks in the summer or 8-10 consecutive weeks, over three months, during the academic school year. Please see our FAQs for further details about the placements process and schedules. TEC also offers Extended and Post Secondary Internships.

Students can receive credit for their participation from their individual school. A certificate of completion and a letter of the student's participation are sent to each student's counselor/advisor once all requirements of the internship are fulfilled. Letters of recommendation may also be provided to each intern.

TEC College Internships run in a similar manner. In fact, many of our college internship graduates were offered jobs from their employers!

Where will each student intern?
A TEC Coordinator, acting as an internship advisor, will interview each student that applies to the Internship Program. The coordinator will evaluate the student for levels of maturity, motivation to participate and responsibility. Once the career of interest is determined, the coordinator begins the process to find a best match for the needs of the student and participating business sponsor. Geographical parameters, transportation, and student's availability to partake are considered during this process.

Once the potential best match is determined, the business sponsor and student meet for an interview to decide on suitability of the placement. The specific dates and hours for an internship are determined in a mutually agreed contract between the intern and sponsor. The TEC Internship Coordinator will facilitate this process as necessary.

Students are in contact with their coordinators on a regular basis and report through their required journal portfolios provided by TEC. Resume writing, interviewing skills and college essay workshops are also available as a part of this program for no additional fee.

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TYPES OF TEC INTERNSHIPS - not all internships available are listed here
[Due to professional confidentiality, we do not post names of placements on this website].

An Internship may help you to discover other career fields you hadn't even considered.
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Limited Internships available in some careers, apply early...

Internship Cost:
Academic Year: $500 for students who attend school in TEC member towns*; $600 for those whose schools are in Non-TEC member towns. Applications are due 6-8 weeks before the desired start date.

Summer: $550 for students who attend school in TEC member towns*; $650 for those whose schools are in Non-TEC member towns. Applications received before March 20th, may take advantage of a $50 application discount. Applications are due May 1st!

*If a student lives in a TEC member community but attends school in a Non-Member town or attends any private school, that student must pay the Non-Member fee.

With both the Academic Year and Summer Internship program, the program fee includes a non-refundable $150 processing fee. No refunds will be issued once a placement has been secured. The information regarding our refund policy is further explained under the Resources / FAQs section of this site.

The program fee covers:

• Application and registration process
• Individual interviews
• Administrative costs of internship development
• Placement, supervision and evaluation
• Orientation
• Career focus workshops
• Recognition Ceremony

We do our utmost to find a custom placement in one of the student's chosen fields. Students must interview with and be accepted by the TEC Coordinator and the Sponsor.

Summer applications should be received at TEC by May 1, 2010. If a student wishes to apply for a summer internship after that date, he/she should call the TEC Office and speak to a member of the career services department first.

For Applications:
Click here to download an Application.

For any further questions:
Please contact our Career Program Coordinator, Sherri Sigel, by phone at 781-326-2473 x 121 or by email at ssigel@tec-coop.org.