It is not too late to get a Virtual Internship
A recent survey of 110 employers by Handshake, a recruiting platform for students, found that 60 percent planned to offer virtual internships.
9 ways high school and college students whose summer plans fell through can line up virtual internships:
Work closely with your schools’ career development centers to keep track of new opportunities, polish resumes and gain/practice remote working skills
The AT&T Summer Learning Academy is a free, unpaid self-paced online learning “externship” certificate program, designed to support college students looking for something to fill the void. This program is open to all college students and consists of 80 hours of virtual, on-demand 24x7 content. Registration is open through June 12 and the program runs from June 22-July 20. While the program is mainly intended for college students, high school student with dual-enrolled in college courses, as well as, 2020 high school graduates transitioning to their first year of college can also register.
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There is a special listing of internships for high school students at www.internships.com run by Chegg.
Another website, https://ismyinternshipcancelled.com/ has crowdsourced information from more than 500 companies regarding internship opportunities.
Find companies and brands that interest you and reach out to them. Email them your cover letter, resume, and tell them what you could bring to the table. Make sure you write down when you email people so that you can circle back to them if they don’t respond within a week or so.
Follow up on past leads - If you were offered an internship or interviewed with a company, reach out again. The work the interns were going to do may still need to get done, and employers who liked you then may want you now.
Look where the jobs are – Handshake is seeing the most active hiring for virtual internships in health care, education, government, technology, nonprofits and financial services. "Remote finance," "remote data science" and "remote software" are ‘hot markets.’.
Other industries still hiring interns include some start-ups or companies whose businesses help people work remotely, or enable the supply chain or e-commerce.