Career Development

CAREER EXPLORATION I

For current 8th & 9th graders • June 20–July 22, 2022 • In-Person @ Allied Family Boys & Girls Club (4619 Jenewein Rd., Fitchburg), Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am-12:30pm,  Thursdays 11am-3pm

Explore careers of interest and pathways to those careers, network with local educators and professionals, build job readiness skills, and connect with peers from around Dane County! Some of the activities include creating a vision board, completing an informational interview with a professional, weekly field trips, and more. Participants will have the opportunity to earn $500 for program completion. MMSD students will also have the opportunity to earn school credit via the Employability Skills Certificate program.

Apply here for Career Exploration I

 

CAREER EXPLORATION II

For current 10th & 11th graders • June 20–July 22, 2022 • In-Person @ Allied Family Boys & Girls Club (4619 Jenewein Rd., Fitchburg), Tuesdays & Wednesdays 1pm-3:30pm,  Thursdays 11am-3pm

Explore careers of interest and pathways to those careers, network with local educators and professionals, build job readiness skills, and connect with peers from around Dane County! Some of the activities include creating a vision board, completing an informational interview with a professional, weekly field trips, and more. Participants will have the opportunity to earn $500 for program completion. MMSD students will also have the opportunity to earn school credit via the Employability Skills Certificate program.

 

Apply here for Career Exploration II

Summer Internships!

For the summer of 2022, Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County will continue to prioritize meaningful career development opportunities for our members. If you or your organization might be interested in supporting opportunities for our members, please read more below!

Interested in supporting the Digital Career Experience program or specifically sponsoring intern wages this summer? Donate here, and/or connect with Emily Kuhn, ekuhn@bgcdc.org. 

 

Applications will be accepted from April 4- April 17, 2022 for all Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County summer career programs. For questions about applications or programs, please email careerprograms@bgcdc.org.

This summer, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County will offer multiple paid, career development opportunities for youth and young adults in Madison. Some programs will be for BGCDC members only, while others will be open to all youth in the community, who will then be enrolled as a member upon acceptance (at no cost).

 

For Employers:

We need your support to make this summer a success! Individuals and organizations in Dane County can support in the following ways:

  • Host an intern: We work with a variety of organizations in Dane County to place highly qualified interns in paid positions. Our minimum internship period is 6 weeks, though we have some interns work as many as 12 weeks. Applications are due no later than March 31st, 2022. Learn more below!

Apply to host an intern
Internship host information
Prospective Employer Information Sessions

  • Sponsor an internship: Unpaid internship experiences perpetuate inequality, and create barriers for access to opportunities. We pay all of our interns a minimum of $15/hour, and the support of our donors helps to maximize the number of students we can connect to these opportunities!

How do I learn more?

  • Email our Director of Education – Careers & Community, Emily Kuhn, at ekuhn@bgcdc.org with any questions

 

“This was a really valuable experience. Having a younger person in the office brings a different perspective that we don’t typically have in our staff. This also gives us a chance to build our pipeline of potential candidates and general connectedness in the Madison community. Lastly but not least, our intern brought great energy and was ultimately a fun and positive person to join our office this summer. He will be missed!” –National Council on Crime & Delinquency

“I always find that interns energize me and make me feel younger and more productive. I enjoy having them in my lab”. –UW Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic

“I enjoyed my internship this summer because of all the experiences I had with my coworkers and supervisor. They were extremely welcoming, and the time I had with them felt very nice. I’ve learned a lot of personal things along this way and one of my highlights was when we all ate Indian food in the small room and just had a good laugh”. -T.T., Curate Intern, Class of 2019

“I enjoyed every part of this internship, from the time management to the learning experiences I had with shadowing my supervisors. I was able to see how occupational therapists work in a hospital.” -K.P., UW Health Intern, Class of 2019

 

Thank you to our past Career Partners! 

Access Community Health
American Family Insurance
Ascendium Education
BMO Harris Bank
Boardman & Clark, LLP
Curate Solutions
Dreambikes
Fiskars
Flad Architects
Fleet Feet
Dane County Government
Habitat for Humanity REStore
JMS Wealth Management/Morgan Stanley
M3 Insurance
Madison Brain Center
Madison Children’s Museum
Madison Gas & Electric
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
More Smiles Wisconsin
NAMI Dane County
National Council on Crime & Delinquency
Olson Toon Landscaping, Inc. 
Palmer Johnson Power Systems
Quartz Health Solutions
REACH – A – Child
Saris Cycling Group
Short Stack Eatery
Spherion Staffing
Ryan Brothers Ambulance Service
UW Extension Plant Disease & Diagnostics Clinic
UW Health
WIPFLi
Wisconsin Alumni Association
WORT FM