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 2026 will take place from Monday, January 5 through Wednesday, January 28.
Winter Term 2026 micro-internship postings will be accepted through Friday, October 10, 2025. There are two ways to post:
- Submit the 2026 Winter Term Micro-Internship Posting Form with all the details we will need to post your opportunity to Handshake, our job and internship database.
- 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—Friday, October 10: Winter Term micro-internship postings submitted to Career Exploration and Development.
- September 16-November 2: 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 2: All micro-internship postings still listed as available will be automatically closed at 11:59pm.
- Friday, November 14: Student final deadline to secure a micro-internship and register their Winter Term project.
- January 5–28, 2026: 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.