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Fairfax County, Va., Office of Emergency Management Internships

Unpaid, but experience and a reputation is what you want.

Internships give you an opportunity to get "real" experience. Perhaps you don't live in Virginia, but you might know someone in the area you could "couch surf " with while interning. Here is their page on the opportunities for 2018: Internship Program.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.