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The Rider Shadow Experience (IND 350)

This course affords you the opportunity to spend time in a professional setting corresponding with your anticipated career path.  By matching with a successful professional in your field, you will have the opportunity to observe the daily realities of the actual work environment.  The course will consist of a preparatory on-line seminar, a minimum of 25 on-site hours, and a final seminar.  The course is offered during the Winter J-term, Summer 1 and the Fall semester.

Course Objectives

IND 350 The Rider Shadow Experience will provide you with:

  • First-hand observational experiences in the professional realm
  • A mentor-mentee relationship with a successful career professional 
  • Connections between classroom curriculum and real-world application
  • Resume building and networking opportunities 

Academic Requirements

This course is open to students with 30 or more credits completed and a GPA of no less than a 2.5.  Interested students will have to submit an application, resume and faculty recommendation to Kim Barberich, Executive Director of Career Development and Success.  Contact [email protected] for due dates. 

IND 350 is a one-credit billable pass/fail course. All components of the course must be passed satisfactorily for students to pass the class.

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Become a Host

Are you interested in helping today’s Rider students to become tomorrow’s leaders?

Career Development and Success is pleased to announce The Shadow Experience, a credit-bearing course that partners students with successful Rider Alumni and community business leaders in a unique learning experience during the Fall, Winter break, and Summer 1 terms. 

We invite you to become a host for this worthwhile endeavor that will entail current students shadowing you at work for a total of twenty-five hours. 

If you would like to participate, please submit your information through the Shadow Experience Host Participation Request form. 

Host Participation Request Form

This experience will allow Rider students to develop:

  • a meaningful mentoring relationship, 
  • connect classroom curriculum to applied practice, 
  • explore career possibilities and 
  • observe the daily realities of the working environment.  

It will provide you an opportunity:

  • to become engaged in the education of today’s students and 
  • to maintain your connection to the Rider community.

For more information contact

Kim Barberich

Executive Director, Career Development and Success

Bart Luedeke Center

kbarberich [at] rider.edu

609-896-5000 ext. 7114

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