One of my responsibilities when I was an editor for another business publication was to oversee the internship program.

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For most business students, this coveted financial internship is an opportunity to get their foot in the door at Fortune 500 companies like Goldman Sachs or PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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The Corps is a unique internship program that connects business school students with companies who want to initiate a discussion of sustainability, with an emphasis on energy efficiency.

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When they return home, they are free to take an unpaid internship before they go on to graduate, business, medical or law school.

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Though they carry their own career stigmas and business assumptions, when you are aware of what you are applying for, an unpaid internship could yield you a promising career and future.

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He tapped into the internship program, and now he is the most famous audio engineer and stage manager in the business.

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