Posting Jobs & Internships
We are always ready to refer our prepared students. Just contact our Office of Career Services (843-727-3526) or complete the on-line form to get started. Once your needs are known, our career services representatives can introduce you to the educational programs, graduate talent, and hiring strategies that best fit your needs. We can provide resumes or host on-site interviews. This service is available at no charge and is tailored to the individual needs of the company.

Why The Art Institute of Charlotte?
The Art Institute of Charlotte is one of The Art Institutes, America's leader in creative education. We are dedicated to providing prospective employers like you with a range of well prepared, industry-trained students as candidates for employment.

We have a proven track record of providing job search assistance that leads to job opportunities for our students and alumni. We offer employers a deep pool of promising graduates each year. And we provide the range of services and personal attention to help match your needs with our graduates.

• Provider of quality private post-secondary education
• Proven track record of successful job placement
• Depth of well prepared, industry-trained candidates
• Services and personal attention to meet your needs

Industries We Serve

From Design Firms to the Finest Restaurants.
Whether you are in the business of generating advertising buzz for national clients, producing a new wave of video games, creating the next big look on the Paris runway, or serving the most sophisticated diners, you'll find the talent you need here. In fact, you'll be in good company, as our graduates have found employment in some of the most prominent companies and progressive industries.

Culinary
The International Culinary Schools at The Art Institutes, the largest system of culinary programs in North America, provides the professional culinary training sought by industry leaders including Marriott Hotels, Aramark and Hyatt. Our programs combine classroom and experiential training in culinary techniques, international cuisine, baking and pastry arts, business principles and knowledge of wine and spirits. The result? We're an important staffing resource for:

• Hotels, resorts, spas
• Institutional food service
• Company owned and independent restaurants
• Caterers
• Retail and wholesale bakeries

Design
Programs ranging from Graphic Design and Advertising to Interior and Industrial Design are carefully developed with input from industry professionals. Armed with comprehensive portfolios, focused skills and conceptual abilities, graduates make creative contributions in many arenas of design and business including:

• Advertising agencies and consulting firms
• Marketing and brand strategy
• Architecture
• Residential, commercial and hospitality design
• Interactive media and design
• In-house design departments
• Product and exhibit design
• Furniture design

Fashion
The fashion industry seeks a wide range of talented professionals - and we've developed programs to address these needs, including Fashion Design and Fashion Retail Management. The combination of specialized curriculum and passionate students results in employment by industry leaders including Nordstrom, Perry Ellis International and Adidas. We meet the recruitment needs of a wide range of fashion-related industries such as:

• Specialty and boutique retailers
• Department stores
• Clothing designers and manufacturers
• Event and fashion show production

Media Arts
Graduates from this collection of programs are employed as animators, game developers and programmers, photographers, web designers, audio and video editors, videographers and special effects artists, to name just a few of many job titles. From nationally recognized companies such as Electronic Arts, Bose, Comcast and Apple Computers to the ingenious entrepreneurial digital media studio, our graduates are making their mark in the vast digital landscape including:

• Interactive design firms
• Marketing, advertising and public relations firms
• Video and online game development
• Forensic animation
• Broadcasting
• Audio and video production studios
• Animation and special effects studios

Top Employers
The top 20 employers of Art Institutes system-wide graduates, January 2002 through December 2007.

Home Depot
Electronic Arts
Marriott
Aramark
Nordstrom
Restaurant Assoc
Macys
Sodexho
Hilton
Hyatt
Target
Whole Foods
Bose Corporation
Ritz Carlton
Mercer Kitchen
Ethan Allan
Sears
JC Penney
Best Buy
CulinArt
THQ
Angus One
Kinkos
Sony
Fast Signs
Neiman Marcus
Clipper Magazine
Comcast
Expo Design Center
Disney