Here are the slides from the first Internship search meeting. I will be organizing two more meetings in August: One on resumes, and one on cover letters.

1. UCLA Quarter in Washington Program
Winter 2021 Orientation Meeting
August 3, 2021

2. Agenda
• UCDC Remote Program
• Course enrollment
• Overview of internship search process
• Next Steps

3. UCDC Remote Program
• Remote internships
• Prof. Desveaux’s Research Development
Seminar
• Speakers and professional development
• Alumni mentorship program

4. Process Overview
• We support your mission:
– Structure, resources, advice
– Leads from UCDC
– Alfreda Brock, UCDC
• Listen, READ, respond, communicate
• Be organized
• Always be professional

5. Course Enrollment
• Three parts: 2 required, 1 optional
• Seminar:
– Poli Sci/Hist/Soc/Comm/Pub Aff
M191DC
• Internship: Poli Sci/Hist/Soc/Pub
Affairs M195DC
• November: Optional electives

6. Internship Search
 By 9/1:
 Second letter of recommendation to Carol
 By 9/15: Send out five internship applications
 By 10/15: Send out five more internship applications
 October: UCDC Symplicity profile
 UCDC Internship Interest Form
 Upload resume
 October TBD: Committing to UCDC: Student Information
System (SIS)

7. Internship Search
 Focus on organizations/agencies relevant to
your research interest
 Start with CAPPP Internship Database:
cappp.ucla.edu/quarter-in-
washington/internships
 Continue looking using other sources:
traverse.com, idealist.org, Handshake,
UCDC leads
 Use your connections!

8. Internship Search
 Read internship descriptions carefully.
 Remote option?
 Are you qualified?
 Requires semester-length commitment?
grad/law students only?
 Get organized! Internship Tracking Table:
 Deadlines
 Required materials
 Contact person, title, etc.
 When submitted, when you followed up,
etc.

9. Internship Search

10. Internship Search
 Application attached to
professional email
 Send all docs as pdfs
 Follow-up email
 Interview
 Post-interview thank-you email
 Accept or decline: GAME OVER

11. Internship Search: Professional Emails
Dear Ms. Aniel,
My name is Jane Bruin. I am a junior majoring in History at UCLA, and I will be participating in the remote UCLA
Quarter in Washington Program (UCDC) this winter. I am available to intern January 4 – March 12, 2021, 24 to
32 hours per week. I am writing to submit an application for an internship with the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars Cold War International History Project.
[Sentence or two about your own specific interest in/qualifications for the internshp.]
Attached are my cover letter, resume, transcript, and a brief writing sample. [If copies of letters of
recommendation are required, add “My letters of recommendation will follow via email directly from
Alfreda Brock at the UC Washington Center.] I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Jane Bruin
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Political Science | UCLA Class of 2019
jane.bruin@ucla.edu | t: 310-123-45678

12. Internship Search
 Letters of Recommendation
Submission Requests
 No need for repeated requests to
recommenders
 All letters uploaded to Box folder
 After you submit an application,
email Alfreda Brock with instructions

13. Next Steps
 2nd Letter of Rec to Carol by 9/1
 Begin researching internships
 Next meeting: end of August
 Resume revision
 Cover letters