Experience
Eberly Career Development Center
Experiential learning is learning by doing. It’s the bridge between the classroom and your career, a way to apply what you know, build confidence, develop professional skills, and explore careers before you graduate.
The goal isn’t “just get an internship.” It’s to choose experiences that help you test interests, build skills, make connections, and collect evidence of what you can do.
Explore the guide
This guide walks you through the whole process in five parts. Start at the beginning or jump to what you need right now.
Getting Started
What counts as experience, how to choose, and when to start.
Read this part: Getting StartedFinding Opportunities
Where to search, the hidden market, and academic credit.
Read this part: Finding OpportunitiesApplying and Interviewing
Your application kit, interviews, and evaluating offers.
Read this part: Applying and InterviewingDuring and After
Succeed on the job and turn it into career capital.
Read this part: During and AfterFAQs and Resources
Common questions, ready-to-use scripts, and contacts.
Read this part: FAQs and ResourcesNot sure where to start?
Meet one-on-one with a Career Development Specialist for internship strategy, application materials, interview preparation, career exploration and next-step planning.
Eberly Career Development Center
217 Hodges Hall
304-293-7476
EberlyCareerServices@mail.wvu.edu