Career Exploration and Development

Offer a Winter Term Micro-Internship

Share your expertise with a current Oberlin student and help them explore dynamic career opportunities in your field.

Winter Term micro-internships are project-based, quality learning experiences that offer Oberlin students realistic exposure to career fields that interest them. These experiences are short-term, 100-hour projects that take place every January and offer students:

  • A firsthand look at what it's really like to work in their career field of interest
  • The opportunity to apply liberal arts skills in a real-world environment
  • Experience to strengthen their future job and internship applications

The Career Exploration and Development team invites alumni, parents, and friends of the college to post micro-internship projects from all industries and professions to best represent the wide range of students’ career interests.

Winter Term 2025 will take place from Friday, January 3 through Tuesday, January 28.

Winter Term 2025 micro-internship postings will be accepted through Sunday, October 13, 2024. There are two ways to post:

  1. Submit the 2025 Winter Term Micro-Internship Posting Form with all the details we will need to post your opportunity to Handshake, our job and internship database.

  2. If you’ve previously posted a Winter Term opportunity and would like to repost it with the same description, please send an email to internships@oberlin.edu. We can pull descriptions from the past three years for you to review, if requested.

After you have submitted your micro-internship posting(s), we will be in touch about next steps.

  • Early-August—Sunday, October 13: Winter Term micro-internship postings submitted to Career Exploration and Development.
  • September 9-November 3: Winter Term micro-internship postings open for students to apply to micro-internships.  Employers interview on rolling basis as applications are received (or per employer-determined timelines) and make offers.
  • Sunday, November 3: All micro-internship postings still listed as available will be automatically closed at 11:59pm.
  • Friday, November 15: Student final deadline to secure a micro-internship and register their Winter Term project.
  • January 3–28, 2025: Winter Term

Fair Labor Standards for Internships

If you are offering an internship with a "for-profit" organization in the private sector, and have questions about how the Fair Labor Standards Act applies to interns, please download the U.S. Department of Labor's fact sheet: Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Additional information is available through the U.S. Department of Labor.