Santa Clara University

Fulfilling Internship Requirements

• Institute Sponsored Internships

  The Retail Management Institute has an extensive network of industry relationships. This summer students will have the opportunity to intern with the following companies:

  Accenture	Phillips Van-Heusen
  Apple	Ross Stores
  Cost Plus World Market	Safeway
  Gap	Target
  Hugo Boss	TJX
  J Crew	Trader Joe's
  Levi	Williams-Sonoma
  Macy's

  
  
  
  

• Finding Your Own Internship

  We have identified different categories of internships that fit the objectives of the Retail Management Program with examples:

  1)    Retail organization:

  An internship with a Retail Organization:
  Example:  Macy's, Cost Plus World Market, Target, Pottery Barn, Nordstrom, Safeway, Trader Joes, Gap, Williams-Sonoma, Hugo Boss, TJX, Levi and others.
  

  The internship could be in the stores, HQ or any department.  In this case we encourage you to pursue internships that match your capabilities and status as a prospective graduate from a very prestigious Jesuit University in Silicon Valley. 

  2)    Accounting / Consulting / Manufacturer:

  Your internship is part of an organizational effort that calls on / sells to / provides services to a retailer.  In other words for this organization a "retailer" is the customer as in the following examples:
  Consulting & Accounting Firms:  Accenture or KPMG (provides services to Retailer).  In your internship you have to directly focus on the retail client.

  Manufacturer:  Hugo Boss, Levi and Apple (have stores and supply to other retailers), Phillips-Van Heusen (Sells to other retailers).  In your internship you have to work in the retail division of the manufacturer or the division that sells directly to retailers.  A corporate marketing or PR type internship does not fit this program and will not be approved.

  3)    eCommerce:

  Any eCommerce internship that involves selling to customers using the Internet.
  Examples:  eBay, hpshopping.com, Apple eCommerce, iTunes etc.  You have to be working in that company where your internship is in the eCommerce division.
  

  If you have an internship that you want approved, please look at the three categories and compare your internship description to these categories. Send the job description to Cynthia Gamage (cgamage@scu.edu) and let her know which category you think your internship is in and why you think it is in that category. It will then be approved or not by the director, Professor Kalyanam.You will not need to meet with him to have this done. It is completely your responsibility to make the comparison and make your own case on why it fits in one of the three categories.