We are currently seeking alumni, families and friends of Davidson who are willing to join the second annual Davidson Internship Challenge! Our goal is to post and encourage applications for 125 internship opportunities generated by alumni, families and friends of Davidson during the 2012-13 academic year.

Why the Challenge is Important

Internships are the single most important way for employers to identify future employees and for Davidson students to explore the world of work. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), new graduates who have completed at least one internship during their undergraduate education are significantly more likely to receive job offers than those with no internship experience. In this difficult economic climate, internships become even more valuable in helping Davidson students obtain valuable work experience and explore career options.

Contribute to the Challenge

You can contribute to the Davidson Internship Challenge by doing ONE or more of the following:

• Serving as a resource for students applying for the internship program at your organization (this could mean answering questions about your experience with the organization or reviewing a resume)
• Taking an active role in facilitating Davidson student applications through the internship host's selection process (this could include answering questions about Davidson and the high-quality education that students receive here or encouraging your HR department to interview at Davidson)
• Creating or helping to arrange an internship specifically for a Davidson student

Participating in the challenge does not suggest that you are guaranteeing an internship to a Davidson student. Your organization is welcome to consider applications from other students and schools.

We are happy to post internships in a variety of industry areas and geographical locations.  Career fields of particular interest to Davidson students include education, nonprofit administration, government and public policy, law, banking and finance, management and strategy consulting, science and medical research, marketing, the arts, and communications.

Paid internships are strongly encouraged, and often generate up to five times as many applicants as unpaid internships do, but high-quality, unpaid internships are allowed as a part of the challenge.

We are currently focusing on Summer 2013 internships.  We hope to post the majority of the Internship Challenge internships for this summer by March 1, 2013.

History of the Challenge

Last year, we sought to highlight 100 internships as part of the challenge. We surpassed our goal with a total of 121 internships posted by 117 participants, resulting in 75 confirmed internships!  See the list of last year's participants, and read about student experiences at two Internship Challenge sites, Dixon Hughes Goodman and  Capital Group Companies, on our blog.

Get Involved!

Our Assistant Director for Internships, Ashley Neff, is available to work with you or the internship coordinator at the organization you are representing to ensure that the internship is advertised effectively to the Davidson student body. She can also answer questions about internship structure and pay.

If you have an internship ready to post, you can either create an account on WildcatLink (our job and internship posting system) and add the position, or e-mail Ashley a basic position description (including internship description/duties, qualifications, time commitment, and desired application materials).  If a description of the internship is online, e-mail her the link to that information.  Also let her know in which of the three ways outlined above you are able to help.

Ashley Neff, Assistant Director for Internships: 704-894-2678 or asneff@davidson.edu

2012-13 Internship Challenge Participants

1.  John Woodall '92:  Susie Films (Charlotte, NC)

2. Jill Dyer '96:  The Norman Group (Davidson, NC)

3.  Cristina Wilson '10:  Charlotte Observer Magazine Division (Charlotte, NC)

4.  Richard Thurmond '94:  Charlotte Magazine (Charlotte, NC)

5.  Brian Helfrich '07:  Summit Coffee (Davidson, NC)

6.  Natalie Tagher '12:  Bloomingdales (New York, NY)

7.  Robert Hutchinson '77:  Goldman Sachs (New York, NY and Atlanta, GA)

8.  Christine Wright '10 and Bradley Carmen '10:  Target (Nationwide)

9.  Rosie Molinary '96:  Circle de Luz (Charlotte, NC)

10.  Amanda Anderson '04:  Catawba Lands Conservancy (Charlotte, NC)

11.  Stephen Salyer '72:  Salzburg Global Seminar (Salzburg, Austria)

12.  Lauren Odomirok '11:  Lake Norman Publications (Davidson, NC)

13.  Garrett Jenkins '06:  Brown Brothers Harriman (Charlotte, NC)

14. Elizabeth Burkholder '07: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health (Palo Alto, CA)

15.  Alexandra McArthur '09:  LRN (New York, NY)

16.  Kim Burke (parent):  Jones Lang LaSalle (Washington, D.C.)

17.  Sarah Allen '08:  UnLtd India (Mumbai, India)

18.  Bill Echikson (parent):  IMEC (Leuven, Belgium)

19.  Sarah Dotts Barley '07:  HarperCollins (New York, NY)

20.  Anthony Foxx '93:  Office of the Mayor (Charlotte, NC)

21.  Lloyd Chapin '87: Barclays Capital (New York, NY)

22. Mike Noonan '91 and David Rosenberg '01: RBC - Royal Bank of Canada (New York, NY)

23.  Blake Poole '08:  J.P. Morgan (Multiple Locations)

24.  Tom Peddicord '68:  FDIC (Multiple Locations)

25.  Brett Holloway '10:  Evercore Partners (New York, NY)

26.  Cindy Sheaffer (parent):  Northstar Travel Media (Winston-Salem, NC)

27. Mark Filipski (parent) and Peter Bruton '10: Credit Suisse (New York, NY)

28.  Jean Reynolds '98: Morgan Stanley Investment Management (New York, NY, West Conshohocken, PA & San Francisco, CA)

29.  Christopher Lima '11: Booz Allen Hamilton (McClean, VA)

30.  Gina Triplett Shell '86:  City of Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)

31.  Jessica Koby '10:  A&E Television Networks (New York, NY)

32.  Terry Marsh (parent):  The Chewonki Foundation (Wiscasset, ME)

33.  Ed Harris (friend of the college):  Davidson Historical Society (Davidson, NC)

34.  Michelle Jester '09:  National Association of Community Health Centers (Washington, D.C.)

35.  Ross Saldarini '92:  Mountain Khakis, LLC (Charlotte, NC)

36.  Flaviu Simihaian '08: Flavma Inc. (New York City, NY)

37.  Harry Mayfield '09:  Lewis-Burke Associates LLP (Washington, D.C.)

38.  Chloe B. Holderness '98:  Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

39. Peter Hofmann '00:  Bank of America (Charlotte, NC)

40. Sydnor Gammon '11:  The Emory Clinic (Atlanta, GA)

41. Mike Daisley '78:  DaisleyLaw, PLLC (Charlotte, NC)

42.  Elizabeth Books Freeze '06:  Planned Parenthood (Greensboro, NC)

43.  John Boswell '81:  FOX News (Atlanta, GA)

44.  Matthew Paramore '03: Raymond James and Associates (Raleigh, NC)

45.  John Odell '83:  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, NY)

46. Molly Yarbrough Davis '92: WFDD 88.5 (Winston-Salem, NC)

47.  Leila Agic '11, Andrew Gorang '09, Rebecca Weidler '12, Ali Farr '12, Steven Summers '93: Deloitte Consulting (Atlanta, GA)

48.  Ed Murphy (friend of Davidson):  Merrill Lynch (Bridgewater, NJ)

49.  Jason Carlock '97: Red Ventures (Charlotte, NC)

50.  Laura Leibfreid '96:  Law Offices of Laura Leibfreid, PLLC (Brooklyn, NY)

51.  Greg Macnamara '12:  Analysis Group (Boston, MA)

52.  Jacqueline McKeon '07:  Oscar de la Renta (New York, NY)

53.  Leanne Macel '88:  National Geographic (Washington, D.C.)

54.  Emily Hassell '10:  Addison Whitney (Charlotte, NC)

55.  Susana Rodriguez '03:  Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman - World Bank (Washington, D.C)

56.  Kelly Vaughn '93:  Special Olympics North Carolina (Morrisville, NC)

57.  Rod Kunz (parent):  MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, MA)

58.  Jean Zoutewelle '86:  Technekes LLC (Charlotte, NC)

59.  Dan Murrey '87:  OrthoCarolina (Charlotte, NC)

60.  Meghan Curtiss '09 and Kathryn Steele '09:  Burson Marsteller (Washington, D.C.)

61.  Jay Lanners '11, Boyce Whitesides '11, Lauren Morse '07:  Bain & Company (Atlanta, GA)

62.  Meredith Hiemstra '97:  U.S. Department of State (Washington, D.C.)

63.  Edward Ellington '01:  Authentic Entertainment (Burbank, CA)

64. Jack DeLoach '12 and Lowell Bryan '68:  Tresata (Charlotte, NC)

65. Kathryn Steele '09:  MSLGROUP (Atlanta, GA)

66.  Mac Wilkie '07:  McColl Partners (Charlotte, NC)

67.  Elizabeth Abernathy '97:  Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC)

68.  Cameron Hardesty '07:  White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (Washington, D.C.)

69.  Laura Gabel-Hartman'89:  WriteBoston (Boston, MA)

70.  Whitney White Som-Pimpong '08 and Kwame Som-Pimpong '09: Afara Global (Atlanta, GA)

71.  Ted Garner '84:  Edgeview Partners (Charlotte, NC)

72.  Roshan Paul '02:  The Amani Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)

73.  Laura Rankin-Allen '78:  Charlotte Community Health Clinic (Charlotte, NC)

74.  Prem Manjooran '92:  The Capital Group Companies (Los Angeles, CA)

75.  Joe Craven (past parent):  BlackRock (New York, NY)

76.  Whitney Davis '00:  NC Prevention Partners (Chapel Hill, NC)

77.  Alice Ankhamah '08:  Bipartisan Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)

78.  Deepak Talwar '89:  Talwar Gallery (New York, NY)

79.  Lynne Ford '84:  Calvert Investments (Bethesda, MD)

80.  Elizabeth Hackenson (parent):  AES Corporation (Washington, D.C.)

81.  Courtney Melvin '11:  McColl Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC)

82.  Patricia Soriano '79:  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Washington, D.C.)

83.  Kellett Letson '90:  Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) (Asheville, NC)

84.  Robert Deaton '85:  Southeast Apartment Investors (Charlotte, NC)

85.  Liz Kiss '05:  CEB (Arlington, VA)

86.  Sara Bates '11 and Lisa Zook '09:  World Vision International (Washington, D.C. and other locations)

87. Minh Nguyen '08:  Organization of Chinese Americans (Washington, D.C.)

88.  Jim Hamilton '60:  American Baker's Association (Washington, D.C.)

89.  Sara Longsmith '97:  Free Press (Washington, D.C.)

90.  Leila Salisbury '93:  University Press of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)

91.  Jeff Kane '83:  U.S. Bank (Charlotte, NC and New York, NY)

92.  Nick Odomirok (past parent):  Shurtape Technologies (Hickory, NC and Avon, OH)

93.  Scott Perry (parent):  Bankers Life and Casualty Company (Charlotte, NC and Chicago, IL)

94.  Elizabeth Allen '03:  Gallery Capital Management LLC (Atlanta, GA)

95.  Beth O'Connell (friend of the college):  NBC Universal (New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA)

96.  Jennifer McLogan (parent):  CBS (New York, NY)

97.  Brian Helfrich '07 and Chris Biby (friend of the college):  FullCircle Ventures (Cornelius, NC)

98.  Bill Echikson (parent):  Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium)

99.  David McManama'06:  KeyBanc Capital Markets (Charlotte, NC)

100.  Bill MacDade '78 and Eugene Jung '97:  IBM (Multiple Locations)

101.  David Saudek '95:  Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)

102.  Philip Dunklin (parent):  Chartwell (Atlanta, GA)

103.  Matt Ferraguto (spouse of alum):  Eckel and Vaughan (Raleigh, NC)

104.  Ryan Moore '99, Matt Phillips '02, Kristina Muscalino '09, Stephen Streb '12:  Aon Hewitt (Charlotte, NC)

105.  Kim Yarde '11:  Capco (New York, NY)

106.  Bob Lonergan '99:  Assurant (Atlanta, GA)

107.  Martha Macon Kelley '85 and Blaine Kelley:  CBRE (Atlanta, GA)

108.  Alex Treyz '09:  Save the Children (Washington D.C. and Westport, CT)

109.  Robert Hill (parent):  South Carolina Bank and Trust (Columbia, SC)

110.  Ingrid Harding '91:  Girl Power 2 Cure (Amelia Island, FL / Virtual)

111.  Roshan Paul '02:  Ashoka (Washington, DC and abroad)

112.  Michele Houck '87:  Carolina Raptor Center (Huntersville, NC)

113.  Sarah Morse '08:  A-SPAN (Arlington Street People's Assistance Network) (Arlington, VA)

114.  Cody Ruxton '02:  America's Promise Alliance (Washington, D.C.)

115.  Marcie Gordon (parent):  National Students of AMF (Raleigh, NC)

116.  Steve Sellers '79:  Cary Street Partners (Charlotte, NC)

117.  Chris Clunie '06:  National Basketball Association (New York, NY)

118. Josh Roberts '98:  Dunn School (Los Olivos, CA)

119. Carin Siegfried '05:  Two Editors and a Comma (Charlotte, NC)

120.  Bill Echikson (parent):  Human Rights Watch (Brussels, Belgium)

121.  Sally Neal '81:  PricewaterhouseCoopers (New York, NY)

122.  Scott Lenhart '95:  CARE USA (Atlanta, GA)

123.  Duane Gregg '08:  Ally Financial (Charlotte, NC)

124.  Eric Spiegel (parent):  Siemens (multiple locations)

125.  Kate Weihe '04:  Higher Ground Sun Valley (Ketchum, ID)

126.  Maddie Koch '11:  International Civil Society Action Network (Washington, DC)

127.  Bianca Mitchell '10:  Productivity PR (Los Angeles, CA)

128.  Tim Ogden '95:  Financial Access Initiative (New York, NY)

129.  Alan Thomson '97:  Terra Firma Financial (Atlanta, GA)

130.  Jonathan Sands '96:  Artist Capital (New York, NY)

131.  Shyam Karki '88:  Biogen Idec (Cambridge, MA)

132.  Winn Maddrey '91:  Fleishman-Hillard (Charlotte, NC)

133.  Lila Allen '09:  The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)

134.  Marisa Wilson '02:  Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden (Belmont, NC)

135.  Kristin Galloway Kelly '89:  Charlotte Rescue Mission (Charlotte, NC)

136.  Muffin Alford '85:  Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX)

137.  Spencer Redding '72:  University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio, TX)