Employer

Option 1
The Career Center uses Handshake as our main job posting platform. Handshake allows employers to post job opportunities for Wofford students and many other academic institutions. All Wofford students have access to Handshake through a single sign-on, and every job, internship, and on-campus opportunity is posted to this one platform. We encourage every employer to have their own Handshake account so they have access to post at any time and to all students. If you have a Handshake account already created:

1) Login to Handshake

2) Select: Post a Job

3) Fill out all relevant information

4) Select: Save

If you have not created a Handshake account:

Click the following button to sign up.

You will need to use your work email address (personal emails will automatically be rejected by Handshake). Handshake will take you through the process of creating an employer account and allow you to select the schools where you would like to receive your postings. You will need to select Wofford College and any other schools of your choosing. Please allow up to 2 business days for our office to approve your request to post on Handshake.

Option 2

If you are a Wofford alum or local employer, you may post your job opportunity once you have created an account on our Career Center website. The Career Center will review it to ensure that the opportunity is offered by a local employer or a Wofford alumnus. Please click on the Guest Contributor Portal below to create an account and post a job or internship opportunity on the current website.

Before posting an internship opportunity, please review Wofford’s Definition of an Internship below.

The Career Center hosts employers on campus regularly throughout the school year. At this time, we do not host career fairs. Instead, we bring individual employers to campus with the goal of intentional recruitment. We utilize Handshake’s social media, email, newsletters, and daily announcements to invite students to on-campus recruiting opportunities. Our Director of External Relations, Bradley Merritt, will work with you to select a time that best fits your recruiting schedule as well as the Wofford student schedule.

Important information to know as you plan to recruit in the Career Center:

1) We strongly encourage that your on-campus recruitment date be at least two weeks out from your original meeting date. A minimum of two weeks ensures that we have adequate time to prepare and recruit students to attend.

2) To set up a meeting to discuss on-campus recruitment and visit, reach out to our Director of External Relations, Bradley Merritt, in one of the following ways:

Schedule a meeting to discuss this in person, over the phone, or through a Teams virtual meeting.

You may send an email to: merrittbh@wofford.edu or phone call at: (864)-597-4265 or call the Career Center at (864)-597-4265

The Career Center believes that every student should participate in hands-on work experience while they are enrolled to gain insight into a future career field. There are many ways to receive hands-on work experience; internships, externships, volunteering, and shadowing, to name a few.

Though we believe that all work experience is great work experience, not all work experience qualifies as an internship. The Career Center has adopted the NACE definition of an internship which is written out below.

Definition:
An internship is a form of experiential learning that integrates knowledge and theory learned in the classroom with practical application and skills development in a professional setting. Internships give students the opportunity to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields they are considering for career paths, and give employers the opportunity to guide and evaluate talent. Criteria for an Experience to Be Defined as an Internship

To ensure that an experience—whether it is a traditional internship or one conducted remotely or virtually—is educational and thus eligible to be considered a legitimate internship by the NACE definition, all the following criteria must be met:

1. The experience must be an extension of the classroom: a learning experience that provides for applying the knowledge gained in the classroom. It must not be simply to advance the operations of the employer or be the work that a regular employee would routinely perform

2. The skills or knowledge learned must be transferable to other employment settings.

3. The experience has a defined beginning and end, and a job description with desired qualifications.

4. There are clearly defined learning objectives/goals related to the professional goals of the student’s academic coursework.

5. There is supervision by a professional with expertise and educational and/or professional background in the field of the experience.

6. There is routine feedback by the experienced supervisor.

7. There are resources, equipment, and facilities provided by the host employer that support learning objectives/goals.Internships for credit at Wofford

The Career Center is able to award up to 4 hours of academic credit through an internship course. Some majors on campus offer major-specific internship courses to assist students with receiving major credit. It is the responsibility of the student to sign up for an internship course if credit is needed and/or wanted.

Should you pay an intern?
The Career Center follows the guidelines set by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on the requirement to pay interns. You can learn more about the Department of Labor guidelines HERE.

Expected Hours from an Intern
Wofford follows a 4 -1- 4 academic schedule which includes a four-month Fall semester, a one-month January term (Interim), and a four-month Spring semester. When discussing summer opportunities, we generally refer to the months of June, July, and August. During Fall and Spring semesters, we encourage employers to expect 8 to 10 hours per week from an intern. If students are doing an internship for Interim, then they are required to work full-time, which is a minimum of 30 hours per week. Most internships during the Summer are full-time for 8-10 weeks.

If you are a local business or company that would like to hire Wofford students, or if you are an alumnus/a of Wofford College and you have a specific job or internship opportunity you’d like us to promote, please share your opportunity below in our Guest Contributor Portal. You will be prompted to create an Employer Profile and then submit your job posting for approval. Once your opportunity is approved, we will share it on our Alumni and Community Connected page and with students via email.