The Associate Director over Internships at 太阳城娱乐官网’S CBT就业中心 is grateful when she hears “the same message year after year” from the students she works with. Janice Woods, who has worked with more than 1000 college students doing internships during 13 years at 太阳城娱乐官网, knows that “college degrees are still relevant” for career placement.

伍兹以及商业和技术学院就业中心的每个人都明白，学生需要丰富的课堂经验以及实习提供的实际经验，为未来的职业生涯做好准备。 And no one prepares students for the real world more than those who work to connect students and businesses through 太阳城娱乐官网’s successful internship program. 

学生和雇主都同意这一点。 在CBT职业中心的2022-23年度实习报告中，工作人员在三个学期中与104名实习生一起工作，绝大多数实习生都支持实习经历。 令人震惊的是，这些学生的导师100%表示，他们的实习生在实习期间达到或超过了预期。 Woods shares that “employers value the internship experience as much as students do.” She explains how “all (their) interns were paid an hourly wage, some at as high of a rate as they would make at their entry-level career.” With a solid understanding of how businesses are improved thanks to 太阳城娱乐官网’s internship process, Woods appreciates the way that “employers recognize that (太阳城娱乐官网) students are feeding into their talent pipeline” which creates a competitive hiring process.

Woods recognizes the benefits to students continue after graduation as she describes how “years of graduation placement data” shows that “太阳城娱乐官网 business and technology graduates who did an academic internship program” through the program offered by the CBT就业中心, “earn about $5000-$6000 higher starting salaries on average” than students who did not participate in these internships.

But, for the students, it’s ultimately about more than a paycheck. 他们可以在大学期间尝试一段较短的时间来决定他们未来的职业。 “They can see and practice the concepts that they are learning in the classroom,” says Woods. 

对于这所大学来说，实习提供了一种让项目与工作场所保持联系的方式。 When discussing this successful program, Woods shares how “students provide value back in their classrooms by describing technology that they are using at work and sharing ideas from their internships” She goes on to say that, “It’s a great revolving door that keeps knowledge flowing in and out of our university.”

研究生s from the University of Nebraska at Kearney are quick to point out how “their college education made a difference” in their professional lives. 令人印象深刻的是，在实习报告中，92%的学生肯定他们的学习项目提供了在工作场所取得成功所需的技能。 When asked if their internship was an important part of their degree program, 93% agreed, solidifying the work being done by Woods and the CBT就业中心 staff.

Numbers like these can’t be wrong. There simply isn’t a substitute for what students receive through the experiential learning taking place in the classrooms at the University of Nebraska at Kearney coupled with the opportunity to enter the workforce as interns before graduation. 这些经历相辅相成，为学生在签订第一份合同之前为他们的职业生涯做好准备创造了完美的环境。

Janice Woods, along with everyone at 太阳城娱乐官网, is grateful to be a part of this exciting time in history, a time when colleges do much more than expect students to open textbooks and repeat what they’ve been taught. 通过CBT职业中心的努力，实习为太阳城娱乐官网学生打开了一个充满可能性的世界，让他们在离开大学生活并步入未来之前品尝职业成功的滋味。