Internships and College Recruiting 

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College Internships

Internship programs offer valuable benefits. As a student intern, you get the opportunity to explore your chosen major and career with professionals working in the industry, as well as gain on-the-job experience. You broaden your knowledge base as you apply what you have learned in the classroom.

As a result, you will be able to develop key competencies, skills and work characteristics that employers seek, including developing your communication and interpersonal skills and learning how to work with others. You'll also have a better understanding of what people in your field do, gain more confidence in your abilities and learn how to get things done. In general, you'll be better prepared to enter the world of work and your field.

INROADS Internships

Xcel Energy is a proud partner with INROADS. Founded in 1970, INROADS, Inc., is the nation's oldest, most successful non-profit leadership development and placement organization for outstanding ethnically diverse college students.

Consistently since 1994, the Princeton Review has named INROADS, with its rigorous process, one of America's Top Ten Internships.

With more than 50 offices throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and South Africa, and relationships with the world's leading Fortune 500 companies and global business, INROADS provides 7,000 college students with salaried corporate internships each year.

Over 13,000 INROADS graduates are pursuing professional and managerial careers, and are fast becoming the most respected contingent of future executives in North America and beyond.

Xcel Energy and INROADS have benefited one another through placement of students within our company, both in Denver and Minneapolis.

To learn more about INROADS, visit www.inroads.org

College Recruiting

Xcel Energy has established relationships with selected colleges and universities in the West and Midwest, where our representatives recruit engineering students for internships and full time positions. In addition to attending career fairs, we conduct on-campus interviews and information sessions.

We continue to expand our recruiting efforts to include schools that offer programs in marketing and energy finance, and MBA degrees.

In our ongoing efforts to recruit diverse candidates, Xcel Energy partners with national and local chapters of these organizations:

National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE),

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)