Intern for a Day matches undergraduate UMD students with professionals working in their field of interest for a job shadowing experience. Students have access to many hosts - 150+ hosts for virtual informational interviews and in-person job shadowing!

This semester, hosts are offering either full day/half day in-person job shadowing opportunities OR 1-hour virtual informational interviewing opportunities. You can find all hosts who are offering in-person job shadowing opportunities on the "In-Person Job Shadowing Hosts" tab and the hosts who are willing to connect for remote informational interviewing opportunities on the "Virtual Info Interview Hosts" tab. Please note that you will find different hosts on each tab. There are no hosts who are offering both job shadowing and informational interviewing. Hosted by the University Career Center. Questions? Email ifad@umd.edu.

Mandatory Orientation enrollment, Deadline to complete, Friday, October 10, 2025. 

 

Steps to Participate in Intern For a Day:

To participate in Intern for a Day as a UMD STUDENT:

UMD undergraduate students who are interested in participating in Intern for a Day this fall 2025 are required to complete the IFAD mandatory student orientation either ASYNCHRONOUSLY or IN-PERSON: 

  • The online IFAD orientation will be open via ELMS/Open Learning between now and Friday, October 10, 2025, at 11:59 pm. 
  • The orientation is self-guided and should take roughly 45 minutes to complete all three modules. It provides the program overview and timeline, best practices for job shadowing, and best practices for informational interviewing. 
  • Students who complete the orientation will receive an IFAD application via the IFAD student portal. 
  • We will send communication and direct students to complete an IFAD student profile via the IFAD student portal at IFAD.UMD.EDU on Monday, October 4, 2025 when the host portal closes. Students will only receive this prompt if they have completed the mandatory orientation. 
  1. Create an Intern for a Day (IFAD) student profile, complete the orientation session, and submit your application 
  2. IFAD Coordinators will begin the matching process after student applications are submitted
  3. Student & host will be notified about their matching status via email
  4. Student will reach out to the host to schedule the experience & provide an introduction.
  5. Student complete the IFAD experience with host match by the end of the semester

Questions? Most questions about the program will be addressed in the mandatory orientations. Other questions can be directed to ifad@umd.edu.

 

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Sample Organizations/Professionals who have been hosts.

 

Education | Human Services | Arts

In-Person, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • AACPS
  • American University
  • Anne Arundel County Public Schools South River High School
  • Chesapeake Children's Museum
  • Collegiate Directions, Inc.
  • Creative City Public Charter School
  • DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment
  • Eleanor Roosevelt HS (Prince George's County Public Schools)
  • Fellowship of Christian Athletes
  • First Generation College Bound
  • Great Kids Farm of Baltimore City Schools
  • Ivymount
  • Language House Living Learning Program
  • Little & Junior TrackStars
  • Lucy School, Frederick County
  • Pasadena United Methodist Church
  • Prince George's County Public Schools, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
  • Rocketship Public schools
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Spanish Education Development (SED) Center
  • UMD Libraries

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Virtual, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • AACPS Child Find
  • Baltimore County Public Schools Infants and Toddlers
  • Coaching Salud Holistica
  • Communities in Practice
  • Howard County (MD) Board of Education
  • Ivymount
  • Jesse Raudales Inc.
  • Joyful Heart Foundation
  • Kennedy Krieger
  • Olney Theatre Center
  • Princeton High School Learning Commons
  • Renegade Press
  • Salesforce
  • Screentyme Entertainment
  • The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
  • The Shafer Center


 

 

Government | Federal | Non-profit

In-Person, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Chesapeake Children's Museum
  • Choose Clean Water Coalition
  • CPSC
  • CropLife America
  • Enterprise Community Partners
  • Department of State
  • Howard County Economic Development Authority
  • Montgomery County
  • Prince George’s County Government
  • U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service
  • US Food & Drug Administration (US FDA)


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Virtual, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Beam Reach Consulting Group
  • DLH
  • Department of Legislative Services/Maryland General Assembly
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • IMS Inc.
  • Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation
  • Maryland State Archives
  • Montgomery County Government (Maryland)
  • MRIGlobal
  • State Department
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • US House of Representatives Office of Sarah Elfreth

 

 

Business | HR | Consulting | Data

In-Person, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Agent Knows Homes
  • Carter Machinery (CAT)
  • Crosby Marketing Communications
  • CRGA Design
  • DKT International
  • Jas & Fam Caribbean Flavor
  • Maryland Judiciary
  • McKissack & McKissack
  • Northwestern Mutual
  • Quantum Financial Advisors
  • SAVE The DATE, LLC Events

 

Virtual, Sampling of Participant Hosts 

  • AECOM
  • Ares Management
  • Capital One
  • DLH Corporation
  • DOT
  • Elanco Animal Health
  • Greenberg Gibbons
  • HMH
  • Jersey Mikes
  • KPMG
  • Longacre Square Partners
  • LRA PR
  • MarginEdge
  • Partner Engineering and Science Inc.
  • Procentrix
  • Prudential Financial
  • Sage Hospitality Group
  • Salesforce
  • Seabreeze Management Company
  • UFA Inc
  • Under Armour
  • UMD-Department of Residential Facilities
  • University of Maryland

 

Research | Science | Medical

In-Person, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Animal Clinic of Whiteford
  • Baltimore County Office of Agriculture
  • Georgetown University
  • Gutschick, Little & Weber P.A.
  • Inpatient Surgical Consultants
  • Kent Soil and Water Conservation District
  • Maryland Oral Surgery Associates
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • NOAA
  • Neural Movement
  • Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
  • University of Maryland - Extension
  • UMD - School of Medicine
  • USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service

 

Virtual, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • CVS Pharmacy
  • Danone
  • Elanco Animal Health
  • MRIGlobal
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • NOAA Office of Low Earth Orbit Observations
  • Partner Engineering and Science Inc.
  • Stantec
  • Uniformed Services University
  • United States Department of Agriculture
  • USDA APHIS
  • US Dept. of Agriculture - National Animal Health Monitoring System

 

 

 

Legal | Law Enforcement

In-Person, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Maryland Courts
  • Montgomery County Police Department
  • Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia

 

Virtual, Sampling of Participant Hosts

  • Diplomatic Security Service
  • DLA Piper LLP
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • Law Office of Eshigo P. Okasili LLC
  • Philadelphia Police Department
  • Pfizer Inc
  • PLEX Solutions LLC
  • U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service

 

 

 

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