If you are interested in CISS 260 Internship and being placed for an Internship for the fall semester or are already working in the IT field and wish to use your present position to satisfy CISS 260 Internship*, please read the following and contact Prof Looby (j.looby@hvcc.edu) as detailed below.
Course Description: The student will participate in a Computer Information Systems internship at an approved local organization to gain professional experience in applications programming, system and network administration, Web design and development, or other technological areas during the last term of study.
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- Note the availability of paid NYS Agency Apprenticeship positions => Information here.
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Registration
CISS 260 Internship is only available to students in their last semester of study and requires CISS 210 – Information Systems Analysis & Design as a prerequisite. The registration steps are as follows.
1. Prior to or upon CISS 260 registration, prospective Internship students must prepare a resume in accordance with the Center of Careers and Employment resume guidelines. The resume will be used for placement and must be saved in .pdf format using the student’s full name as the file name and emailed to Prof Looby. The email subject line should include the terms CISS 260 Internship, your name, and student ID (H00xxxxxx).
The email must also include an email signature with your name, email address, phone number, and degree program (System & Network Admin, Web Design or Computer Information Systems) on separate lines. This is to ensure you have a proper business signature when communicating with your Internship site. Of course, your emails should be error-free. Should the email and attachment not be in this form you receive a simple reply stating “Please Resubmit”.
2. When sending your resume via email, you should also provide the following information for placement.
a. Your preference for Internship placement (e.g. NYS offices, hospitals and health organizations, private industry).
b. The type of position (e.g. System & Network, Help Desk, Web Development, Programming, DBMS, etc.) you would prefer.
c. Your geographical location or desired geographical location.
This resume and email will be reviewed and may require resubmission following its assessment or if it does not comply with the submission procedure. This is very important – please recall CISS 100 where I stated that in industry, hiring, consulting agreements, RFPs, and RFQs that do not adhere to the guidelines are dismissed without review. You are now at that point and failing to strictly follow established procedures can result in lost jobs and opportunities. Please take this very seriously as there are competitors around the world that do take this seriously.
Please note that internship placement occurs on a first-come, first-served basis; therefore, students are encouraged to register and submit their resumes early. To further illustrate this, consider that several high profile/demand internship sites that hire students directly from the Internship program require 2+ weeks to review resumes and receive approval. Note this Internship site review process has recently been stretched to 3 weeks or more. Students who don’t get me their resume 2+ weeks before the semester exclude themselves from placement at these sites.
3. Upon receiving approval, please register for CISS 260 and pay your bill as I cannot place students who have not paid their bill.
Lastly, students may find their Internship placement but please note the Internship site must be approved before the start of the semester and note that it can take some time to communicate with the site. If you are interested in finding your own Internship site you must send Prof Looby the site specifics as early as possible (j.looby@hvcc.edu). Note students must still submit their resumes even if they have found their own Internship site.
Students who do not submit their resumes in a timely fashion or who do not pay their bills or who are not placed in an internship will be required to take an alternative course as approved by the Department Chair.
Student-identified Internship Placement
You may find or have found your own Internship site. If this is the case Prof Looby will need the following information to contact your Internship Site Supervisor:
Internship Site & Address
Internship Supervisor’s name, phone, email, and title
Job Description (can be brief)
Also please direct your supervisor to review and approve the following assessment they will have to perform: http://www.ciss100.com/ciss-260-general-information/internship-supervisor-evaluation-form/
CISS 260 Syllabus
Separate link/area in D2L
Internship Placement
Again note that Internship placement is performed on a first come – first served basis (FIFO) so I again recommend you submit your resume as early as possible.
Lastly, we will do our best to place students in their desired Internship but placement in the exact desired position cannot be guaranteed.
Student Expectations
Students will upload their Resume in PDF format to Blackboard the 1st week of classes.
Students will interview with the Internship site no later than the 1st week of classes. Should the student not be accepted by the Internship site they will have to drop CISS 260 Internship and take a CISS Elective to substitute for the Internship.
Students are expected to work 100 hours during the full length of the semester.
Each student will establish a work schedule with the site. Students generally work 8 hours each week but other schedule arrangements can be made with the host site. It is recommended that students work in increments no smaller than half days (4 hours).
On the days the college is closed, attendance at the internship site is optional. Students often use these days to make up missed hours. Internship assignments end the last week of classes.
During the semester, the student will maintain a journal. The journal will contain a weekly entry including the date, times worked, and a brief description of the work completed/assigned. The journal must be submitted to the instructor via Blackboard every week. If a journal is not submitted each week, the assumption will be that the student did not work that week.
During the semester, the HVCC instructor will contact the site supervisor to check on the student’s performance. At the end of the semester, the site supervisor will complete an evaluation form for the student (see attached sample).
Students are expected to be prompt when reporting for work. If a student cannot report when expected, they should notify both the site supervisor and the instructor via e-mail. Please remember that absences should only be in case of an extreme emergency. Missed hours must be made up.
Students are expected to dress in professional attire, conduct themselves in an appropriate manner, and observe all protocols and regulations at their assigned site. In the event of behavioral or performance problems, internship site supervisors are asked to contact the instructor immediately. The site also has the right to request the student be removed from the internship. This could result in an automatic failure of the course.
Some sites rotate the student through several assignments while others assign the student to one or two assignments during the semester. Either approach is acceptable. Each site is free to plan the student’s activities within this broad framework:
Programming
PC application development
Web page development & Maintenance
Systems Analysis
Help Desk
Hardware installation, troubleshooting, etc
Network installation, troubleshooting, etc
Internship Exit Interview
Please see the submenu below as you need to fill out the Internship Exit Interview the last week of your Internship
Thanks again,
Prof Looby