<p>I realize you didn’t address the question to me. However, I just looked at the Chevron engineering intern web page. Their internships are for “outstanding” university students working towards a degree in chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, or petroleum engineering.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt you would have any chance of getting a petroleum engineering internship with no science or engineering background. If you look at some of the CC threads for petroleum engineering internships, you will see that some students majoring in PetE are having trouble finding an internship this year.</p>
<p>I am looking for an internship, I am senior in petroleum engineering. But I realize that you have to be referred or know someone in those petroleum companies to get an internship.
Please refer me!!!
My phone number is 443-813-3018. My email is <a href="mailto:nagha12@yahoo.fr">nagha12@yahoo.fr</a>
Thanks a lot
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<p>Have you try your school’s Career Services? Most students obtain their internships through their school’s Career Center/Office/Services. Petroleum companies recruit interns by going to college campuses and interview applicants.</p>
<p>I would always recommend attaining internships on your own. When you make the contact, rather than yourself being contacted, I feel like it shows you have more of an interest in the company. If you go to your career center and see what internships are available, you are looking at the pool of internships.</p>
<p>Email the company you want to work for, and they may be able to sort something out for you. I landed the internship of my dreams by doing this.</p>
<p>chirsw, Exactly how hard was it to find a job afterwards? You also need to consider you attended the university of Pennsylvania which has the best business program in the country. I’m planning on going into the field of consulting and am just trying to get a handle on how important an internship is. I’m sure it the quality of your business education was a large part of why your prospective employers didn’t need to see an internship on your resume. I am currently aiming for a bachelors degree from University of Washingtons business school Foster and want to pursue a internship from deloitte consulting.</p>
<p>I did attend Penn, but I did not attend Penn’s undergraduate business school; I was a political science major. The only help that Wharton gave me was that some pretty awesome companies recruited on campus. When I was in interviews on campus, I was compared against my peers at Penn; when I was in interviews on company sites, I was compared against ALL of my peers, and my college became all but meaningless. They weren’t going to select me over a more qualified peer just because I went to a school that has a good business school (which, a few recruiters mentioned to me, doesn’t matter as much as people want it to).</p>
<p>How hard was it to find a job? Very. I put in 50+ applications, starting in June and extending all the way to Thanksgiving. I engaged in interviews from July until December. Out of the 50+ companies/government agencies I applied to, I advanced to interviews/further consideration in seven of them. I got to second rounds with four, and I got two offers; both offers were from consulting companies that have a tech focus.</p>
<p>Deloitte is a great company, but you would make a big mistake if you focused solely on them. Put in applications to Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture and as many other consultancies as you can. Having an internship is ABSOLUTELY an advantage to you, primarily because you have an excellent chance of walking away from it with an offer in hand. If you snag an internship at Bain, for example, you will have what is essentially a three-month interview. If they see value in you, they will want to try to get you to commit to them before you can get picked up by another company, so they’ll offer you a FT job in August with a November acceptance deadline. Right there you gain enormous leverage so that when you interview with a boutique consultancy (i.e. a place that has wiggle room in salary negotiations), you will be able to pull out your Bain offer when they offer you a low salary.</p>
<p>For consulting, your junior internship will make life a lot easier senior year, but it is certainly not absolutely necessary. If your GPA is high enough and your experience framed well enough, companies would be foolish to throw away your application.</p>