An externship is a valuable experience
that provides real-world training to ICE students
Externships allows students to
focus on their interests in the food and
hospitality industry. Whether it's
restaurants, catering, hotels, food media
and more, it puts theory into practice
for many of our programs and it also
gets a student's foot in the door for
many of America's top establishments,
providing invaluable industry contacts. ICE students work with the Career Services
Department to land externship based on
their unique interests. In fact we've placed
students in more than 300 establishments
in the last few years. As soon as
students begin at ICE they are assigned
a Career Services adviser who meets
with them regularly throughout their
time at school and is available even
after they graduate and begin working.
Coming to ICE, I grew my network a lot – it
helped me so much in terms of networking
and also I was taught on how to approach
positions the right way. Advisors present
workshops that teach students about the
industry and the different types of jobs
that are available to them. They also
work with students individually to
assess their career goals, provide resume
feedback and more. Once the students
goals have been refined their advisor
works with industry contacts to guide
them into the area of their choice, even
long after they graduate ICE is a
resource for our alumni, helping them to
find jobs after they leave our
classrooms for as long as they'd like.
The great thing about ICE is that
there's this amazing career services and
they really help students not only with
externships but you can come back after
you've graduated and really utilize
those resources. Plus we produce a
newsletter with hundreds of job
opportunities for our students and
alumni each week. We make it our mission
to always network on behalf of our
students. Through attendance at industry
events, memberships and professional
organizations and constant conversations
with chefs and restaurateurs, we make
sure we stay on top of what's happening
in the food world so we can help
students get to where they want to be
upon graduation.
We also plan and host events including
career fairs, pop-up recruiting visits
and alumni parties. Almost 50% of
students receive job offers from their
externship site. And those who don't come back to
work with us to find the perfect fit. In
our Career Services Department we're
always working for our students. I came
back to ICE looking for an opportunity
to go back to Italy and learn about the
cuisine in the motherland and had the
opportunity to travel around Italy as
well as stage in a very well-known
restaurant in Piemonte. If it
wasn't for ICE career services helping
me get the opportunity in Italy I would
have never even known where to start.
