Mariana Bracetti Academy

MBA Internship Program

We are now recruiting internship job sites! 

If you are interested in hosting an intern, please contact Tory Abbott (tabbott@mbacs.org) or Tony Alvarez (talvarez@mbacs.org).

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

 Mariana Bracetti Academy offers a unique internship program for select high school seniors that consists of an 8-week Job Skills Training course, followed by 12-weeks of Job Site Placement . The mission of the MBA Internship Program is to provide our students with professional work-place experience and skill-building through job site placement and a job skills training course to aid their post-secondary goals.

CURRICULUM AND COURSEWORK

The Internship Program is comprised of two components: an 8-week Job Skills Training course and a 12-week Job Site Placement.

JOB SKILLS TRAINING

This course meets once a week for 8 weeks and aims to prepare students to enter the workplace with confidence and an understanding of how to accomplish their future goals in the professional world.  Professionals from the community will present a variety of workshops on workplace skills and professional development.

Topics Covered:

    Self-Assessment

    Interviewing

    Resume Development

    Office Culture

    Understanding Your Workplace

    Time Management

    Communication

    Business Ethics

    Finding a Job

    Networking

JOB SITE PLACEMENT

Job Site Placement occurs twice weekly for 12 weeks following Job Skills Training. The emphasis is on applying skills developed through classroom instruction, exploring career opportunities, and learning new career competencies at the internship site. The Internship is unpaid.

Before starting their placement, interns will create a list of goals for their experience with their site supervisor. It is the responsibility of both the site supervisor and the internship coordinator to ensure that these goals are met. The internship coordinator will make visits to the workplace to monitor the progress of the intern and help manage the experience for both the site supervisor and intern.

While participating in the program students will complete a variety of assignments designed to help them strengthen their understanding of the workplace, and to help identify their own talents, skills and abilities. The experience will have a culminating project in which students will make a presentation detailing the work they did at their respective job sites. 

SITE SUPERVISORS

MBA has relationships with more than 20 job sites in a wide variety of fields in the Philadelphia area.

Benefits for Supervising Organizations:

    Allows a business to help cultivate the future workforce

    Positive opportunity for community outreach and development

    Opportunity to diversify the workforce

    Allows skills and knowledge important to the particular field to be taught

    Allows site supervisors to share their expertise and serve as positive role models for young adults.

CONTACT

The Internship Coordinator will perform an introductory onsite meeting with the prospective Site Supervisor and discuss details of the internship. Potential interns will have the opportunity to interview with site supervisors. Interns will be matched to job sites based on both site supervisor preferences and student interests.

For more information about the program, contact:

Tory Abbott                                Tony Alvarez

tabbott@mbacs.org                     talvarez@mbacs.org

(215) 291-4436 x 315                  (215) 291-4436 x 241