National Intern Day - Celebrate Interns Across the Country on July 27th

NEW YORK, July 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT: Welcome to the first-ever National Intern Day presented by WayUp on the fourth Thursday of July! Hundreds of companies and organizations around the nation - including large employers such as American Express, Under Armour, and Dell Technologies, startups such as Oscar Health and Justworks, and non-profits including charity: water and Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Initiative - will recognize their hard-working interns on July 27th.

WayUp created National Intern Day because interns are vital contributors to the organizations that they work for, and internships are an essential step in jump starting a successful career.

WayUp encourages companies nationwide to host a special celebration for your interns and post on social media using the hashtag #NationalInternDay. For ideas on how to celebrate, read up here.

In addition, you have until 5:00 PM EST to nominate your internship program and your favorite interns to win an Intern Award! The six interns with the most nominations will win an amazing prize, valued at $750. WayUp will also publish a list of the top 50 internship programs based on these nominations, and announce all intern and program winners on Facebook in the days following.

WHEN:

    --  July 27(th), 2017

WHERE:

    --  www.nationalinternday.com

WHO:

    --  National Intern Day is presented by WayUp, the go-to platform for
        early-career professionals to explore opportunities, receive advice, and
        get discovered by employers.

ABOUT WAYUP
WayUp is the go-to platform for early-career professionals to explore job and internship opportunities, receive advice, and get discovered by employers. Launched in September 2014, WayUp is the only site where employers can post a job to a targeted (and filtered) audience of students and recent grads from any U.S. college. WayUp currently has more than 3.5 million profiles of students and recent grads who represent 6,400 campuses in the U.S., with 25,000-30,000 students signing up each week. WayUp works with startups to Fortune 500 companies with innovative approaches in the way in which they recruit millennial talent, and places 1 in every 3 applicants in a job.

For more information, visit https://www.nationalinternday.com/

Contact:
N6A for WayUp
212.334.9753, ext. 139
WayUp@n6a.com

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SOURCE WayUp