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2024 Signature Industry Event: A unique networking opportunity for internships and jobs

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Students meet with employers at the 2023 Signature Industry Event (Photo by Joshua Smith).

The College is hosting it’s second-annual Signature Industry Event—an intimate, high-impact networking opportunity—on October 29, and representatives from a variety of local and international organizations will be in attendance.

2024 Signature Industry Event
Tuesday, October 29, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

The Event: An intimate networking opportunity where select students will be able to connect directly with employers and discuss internships and jobs in a more focused, exclusive environment beyond what you’d find at a traditional job fair.

Benefits:

  • Network directly with employers in an intimate environment
  • Hear about exclusive opportunities like internships and jobs
  • Practice your approach to networking
  • Receive personalized training before the event to help you enhance your networking skills

Participating Companies: BMW / Cummins Turbo Technologies / Mercedes Benz / More to be added!

Great Fit For: Freshman and sophomore Honors College students looking to enhance their networking skills, particularly students majoring in: Computer science, engineering, accounting, marketing, hospitality and tourism management, and supply chain management.

How to Participate: Accept your invitation through Handshake, which will then allow you to register for a required a required prep session with a Career Center career professional who’ll help you prepare for this event (and others like it) by working with you to enhance your networking skills. The deadline to apply is September 20, or until registration has reached capacity.

Summer internships and post-grad jobs available with AlphaSights

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AlphaSights, an information services and expert networking company, has opportunities for summer internships and post-grad jobs at both it’s New York City and San Francisco offices.

The Opportunities:

Great Fit For: All academic backgrounds encouraged to apply / People who are business-oriented or want exposure to a global company / Student leaders who are active in campus activities.

Learn More: Meet directly with AlphaSights to learn more about the positions. Reps will be on campus at the career fair on October 15 and available for one-on-one coffee chats October 16.

  • To book a one-on-one meeting, sign up through Handshake.
  • Or email Miyah (MJ) Lockhart, our C of C representative: miyah.lockhart@alphasights.com.

How to Apply: Online application + Resume using the links below.

What is our Client Services Team?

  • Get a crash course in a commercial and client service position to jumpstart your career
  • Work in a fast-paced, communications-intense, frontline environment
  • Build business communication, project management, and confident negotiation skills
  • Follow an accelerated career trajectory, and own your commercial results from day 1

December 2024 or May 2025 graduates: Apply to our full time Client Service Associate role!

  • As a high-performance, client-first organization, our culture is defined by our focus on client, career, and company success. People come here to individually grow, and collectively achieve something bigger than themselves
  • Expect total first-year compensation ranging from $90,000 (average performance) to $110,000 (very strong performance) consisting of (i) annual base salary of $75,000 and (ii) uncapped variable compensation linked to individual performance.

December 2025 or May 2026 graduates: Apply to our Client Service Internship (Jun-Aug 2025)!

  • Working, learning, and growing alongside ambitious peers will set you up for success to help you
  • Internship compensation: $14,400 for a 10-week program

Questions?

  • Interested in our international opportunities? Learn more here.
  • Email Miyah (MJ) Lockhart, our C of C representative: miyah.lockhart@alphasights.com.

Free tickets to the Gibbes Distinguished Lecture Series

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The Honors College has a limited number of free tickets for Honors students to attend the Gibbes Museum of Art’s annual Distinguished Lecture Series featuring filmmaker Spike Lee.

Tuesday, October 15
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Charleston Music Hall

The speaker: Spike Lee is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and respected art collector. This talk comes on the heels of the auteur’s recent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum Spike Lee: Creative Sources, which offered a rare glimpse into Lee’s personal collection of art and inspiration. Audience members can expect to learn more about the influence of the visual arts on the filmmaker and, in turn, his influence on visual art and culture.

Great fit for: Film Buffs / Art lovers  / Ever-suffering New York Knicks fans

Interested? If you are interested in claiming one of the free tickets allotted to the Honors College, enter your name and email address by Monday, September 9 at noon. We will randomly select the 15 recipients of the tickets, and contact all interested students to alert you of the results.

Become an Honors Ambassador and help recruit the next class of Honors students!

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The Honors College is looking for Honors Ambassadors to help us recruit and welcome the Honors College Class of 2029!

What does an Ambassador do? You’ll help the Honors College admissions team with recruitment events, campus visits, various recruitment tasks, and communication with prospective students.

Benefits: Help potential new Honors students determine if CofC is the best fit for them. Prospective students and families love to hear from current students directly, so we truly value each and every one of our ambassadors as they all showcase all the diverse interests our students have.

  • It’s a great resume builder and fun way to stay involved and represent the Honors College! If you remain an ambassador through graduation, you’ll receive a special Honors Ambassador cord to wear during the graduation ceremony.

Great Fit For: Open to any Honors College student, freshman through senior! (Returning Ambassadors do not need to fill out this application.)

How to apply: Complete the online interest form by Thursday, September 5 at 11:45 p.m. The Honors Admissions team will contact you with next steps. Questions? Honors@cofc.edu.

The SC Washington Semester Program is accepting applications for Spring 2025

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The Washington Semester Program (WSP) offers South Carolina college students the opportunity to spend a semester working and taking classes in Washington D.C., gaining valuable experience while earning academic credit toward their degrees.

The opportunity: Live/Learn/Work. Students live in a historic Capital Hill neighborhood, explore the city through group excursions, all while taking 15 credit hours.

  • 9 credit hours are applied towards a full-time internship in congressional, executive, judicial or private sector offices, which can be applied towards your Honors Immersed requirement.

Great fit for: Many CofC Honors students have participated and thrived in this program over the years, with backgrounds ranging from political science to economics to international studies to public health. Participants get firsthand experience with the political process, obtaining skills that will help prepare them for careers in virtually any sphere.

Scholarships available: The program allocates support for students who demonstrate financial need and awards over $10,000 each year in scholarships.

  • Learn more: the Program will offer multiple virtual info sessions over the coming weeks. Sign up here.

How to apply: Personal statement + resume + transcript + LOR by Sunday, September 22, followed by virtual interviews for finalists the following Sunday.

Office internship with the local chapter of the NAACP

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The local Charleston chapter of the NAACP is seeking office interns!

The Opportunity: In this role you will support administrative needs (processing membership applications, phone calls, messages, email, etc). You will work collaboratively with chapter officers and perform outreach to increase meeting attendance and event engagement.

How to Apply: If you are interested in applying, please call chapter president, Dorothy Jenkins at 843-805-8030.

Babysitting opportunity to help out an Honors College alum

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Looking for some extra cash? An Honors College alum has a one-off babysitting opportunity on Thursday, September 5.

The details: An Honors alum is visiting town and is looking for a trustworthy student to babysit her 2-year old daughter while she and her husband enjoy a night out.

Date: Thursday, September 5
Estimated hours: 5:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Location: Mills House Hotel (115 Meeting St.)
Pay: $25/hour plus an Uber back to campus following the shift

Great Fit For: Students with babysitting, daycare, or after school experience. The alum is a practicing surgeon, so it’s also a great fit for someone interested in pre-med.

Interested? Email Honors@cofc.edu (subject line “Alumni Babysitting Opportunity”) to express interest and we’ll put you in touch with the alumni.

Creating Safe Environments: a Public Health Discussion with Dr. Jerome Adams

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Join former Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Jerome Adams as he addresses “Creating Safe Environments, a Public Health Discussion.”

The Talk: An expert panel will examine critical lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and answer how can we respond better to the next threat, why we keep making the same mistakes, and why we must promote health equity for all.

Wednesday, September 4
4:00 – 5:15
Craig Hall Auditorium

The Speakers: Keynote address by Dr. Jerome Adams, former Surgeon General of the United States. He will be joined on the panel by Brian Bossak and Leslie Hart, Associate Professors of Public Health, College of Charleston School of Health Sciences. Moderated by Michael Lee, director of the Civility Initiative.

How to Attend: No registration necessary, just show up!