Madison Brown scored her summer internship with GDIT through a moment of opportunity.
While attending a resume workshop, Brown caught a recruiter s attention, networked, applied and landed among a virtual cohort of 115 interns across the company. A junior studying technical writing at Louisiana Tech University, Brown won GDIT s Intern Leadership award for her job performance.
Her takeaway? Go out and talk to people, even if you don t think you need it, Brown told CIO Dive. Even if you walk away with one thing you didn t know: It was worth it.
As IT faces a growing skills shortage, organizations across all industries offer technical internships to enrich the next generation with job experience even in a remote world. But for successful retention of potential candidates, responsibility falls on IT leadership to create a meaningful experience with long-lasting investments in upskilling folks from all backgrounds.