If you haven’t read our article The Couch Potato’s Guide to Job Search, you should. We got the idea for it when we wrote about entry-level jobs at the American Association of Zoos & Aquariums. The short of it is that we saw that GEICO commercial (yes, we’ve featured GEICO’s entry-level jobs too) where the gecko is at the aquarium talking about the American Association of Zoos & Aquariums, and it got us thinking about finding jobs or internships while watching tv. We decided that watching tv is a legitimate job search method and that your mom can no longer yell at you for being lazy and not having a job when you’re parked in front of the tube. Anyway, we thought it was time to covers internships with the American Association of Zoos & Aquariums, so here we go.
The American Association of Zoos & Aquariums is a non-profit organization that accredits - wait for it - zoos and aquariums. The AZA and their team of experts ensure that accredited zoos and aquariums meet extremely high standards. “Fewer than 10% of the approximately 2,400 animal exhibitors licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture are AZA accredited,” so they’re not like that honor society that invited you (and every other student on campus with a GPA above 1.7) to join. The AZA itself doesn’t appear to offer internships, but cold calling might be worth a try; however, the AZA offers a plethora of internship listings for the zoos and aquariums that they accredit. Since many of the organizations that AZA approves are also non-profits, we thought you’d like to know more about these internships working with animals.
Now, not all of AZA’s job listings are from non-profits, so if that’s what you’re looking for, you need to look closely at the zoo or aquarium that is actually listing the internship. Obviously, Walt Disney World is not a non-profit, but the Aquarium of the Pacific and the National Aviary are. Positions in the AZA Internship Listings range from Animal Programs Intern to Marine Mammal Intern. The internships are listed in chronological order with the most recent listings at the top. These are the most likely to be Fall internships, since that is what they should be posting now. You can also visit the websites of the institutions that are listed and look for internships that aren’t posted on the AZA website. You can even use the AZA’s list as your cold calling list if you really want to be a go getter. Also, don’t forget to look at the actual websites of the organizations that you want to apply to. Researching before you send a cover letter is very important.
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