What a shadow day is
Not an interview and not work — you observe, ask questions, sit in on a meeting if allowed, and get an honest read on what the day-to-day of a role actually feels like. Students consistently say it changed their mind about a field in one direction or the other.
How to get matched
Rank a few fields and locations through Career Services in the month before a break; the office matches against its alumni host list and handles the introduction and logistics.
In and around Porter Falls
Career Services works with every major, but the pattern is the same across them: a required internship, co-op or clinical placement before graduation, listed on each program page. Ninety-six percent of Porter undergraduates complete one, most of them with an employer in the Valley or the Cities.
The practical details
Length: Half a day to a full day. Timing: Concentrated over winter and spring breaks. Hosts: Alumni and employer partners across every field. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Career Services (Founders Union, Room 160). Call (715) 555–0205 or email careers@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.