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Alex Zhu’24 shares how she found valuable internships through SCU Career Center’s Handshake platform.
13 Feb 2024
by Matt Morgan
Student Life

Some valuable college experiences happen outside of class. For Alex Zhu ’24, those include tech internships that will launch her career.

The Career Center’s Handshake platform connected her with a recruiter who helped her get her first internship. As a freshman with no experience, she found it was a great way to get her foot in the door.

“The next summer, I landed my first corporate internship at a Fortune 500 tech company,” she says. In fall 2023, Zhu shared her stories of working in project management for NetApp and ServiceNow with incoming students, growing the network of Broncos at work.

Read more on scu.edu: Finding the Right Internship 

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