Mayor's Intern Fellows Program

The Mayor’s Intern Fellows program modeled after the White House Fellows Program, available to Dallas Public and Charter Schools, offers sophomores and juniors meaningful career experiences at Dallas-area companies, universities and organizations with paid summer employment. As interns, students learn job-related skills and useful information about the company, its industry and working in general. They also shadow experienced employees and interact with company executives.  Host companies over the last three years include AT&T, Atmos Energy, Brinker International, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Parkland Hospital and Southern Methodist University.

Here's How It Works: EIF takes the student applications and compiles a database of applicants for the participating companies to review The companies send back a list of students they want to interview EIF faciliates Business 101 trainings to prepare students for the workplace. EIF conducts the Internship Job Fair Every student gets at least 1-3 interviews After the fair, companies give EIF their list of ideal candidates EIF matches students to companies Intern Fellows attend a leadership development workshop Intern Fellows participate in a community service event.

Deadline to Apply:  April 1, 2013*







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Program Requirements

Student Fellows must:

• Be at least 16 years of age and eligible to work in the United States
• Have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA by January 2013 and a solid attendance record
• Be either sophomores becoming juniors, or juniors becoming seniors
• Be a student in a Dallas public or charter school
• Receive a letter of recommendation from Campus leadership.   
• Participate in the Intern Fellows Program training program offered by Education is Freedom.
• Participate in the Leadership Development workshop
• Participate in the community service project
• Attend the conclusion luncheon

The Corporate Partners agree to:

• Provide qualified students with fellowships for 8 weeks during the summer.
• Pay at least $9 per hour for 20 or 40 hours a week
• Provide a basic job for fellows for at least 4 of 5 days a week.
• Provide mentors who will support students in learning basic office and business skills throughout the program and will create a means to measure progress.
• Assign someone to constructively assist fellows through any challenges along the way (i.e. office skills, appropriate dress, transportation needs). Someone in HR may be appropriate.
• Create a unique program around the 5th day of the week that includes significant time: - with top managers and executives-both shadowing and one-on-one conversations - learning about the company, the jobs within that company, the industry the company is in - outlining the education path, life choices and sacrifices needed to reach those jobs. - role playing in those jobs
• Allow for the possibility of post-fellowship mentoring