Montgomery College - Working With Business and Government Agencies

On This Page:  Training | Working With MC | | County Demographics | Posting Jobs/Internships - EJobs | Macklin Business Institute | MC Foundation | Employment Opportunities |Career Centers | Giving to MC | Getting to MC | MC News | Contact Us

Employee and Business Training

Montgomery College provides undergraduate and Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs for virtually all of the county's business, government, entertainment, and community service sectors.  The College also provides employee, business, association, and government agency training on-campus, in-house, and online in virtually every field - management and professional development, Information Technology, and business specialties such as real estate, health sciences, food safety, and technical trades.

Work with our Workforce Development and Continuing Education Division for open enrollment courses or customized instruction by one of our Training Institutes: The Gudelsky Institute for Technical Training, Health Sciences Institute, Hispanic Business Institute, the Information Technology Institute, other training departments, or credit departments. Contact information for the appropriate program administrators can be found at the bottom of each subject or Institute page. If you need help, contact the Dean of Business, Information Technology and Security (BITS) at 240-567-2585, or the Response Center at response@montgomerycollege.edu or phone 240-567-5185.

You can send one or two employees to an Open Enrollment training course, or offer a customized Information Technology training course to 15 - 25 employees at your location. You can sponsor an apprentice in your trade or business. You can hire trained undergraduates and graduates from our credit department intern programs, or graduate interns from our TechLEAP IT Training program.

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Montgomery County Demographics - Maryland's Largest, Best Educated County

Montgomery County has a diverse population of over 927,000 (U.S. Census population est.2005) and is the largest county in Maryland.  Montgomery County has one of the nation's most highly educated and diverse workforces, with a strong economy.   The County has robust and growing information technology, biomedical,  and health care sectors, based in part on the presence the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and commercial, research, and incubator technology centers in Rockville, Gaithersburg, Germantown, Silver Spring, Bethesda, and other parts of the county.

Montgomery College enrolls approximately 22,000 undergraduate and 28,000 adult education students annually, in an array of programs reflecting the energy and diversity of the county's population.  See the list of undergraduate programs at the Departments web site, and the list of Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs found on this page.

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Working with MC

As Maryland's largest community college, MC offers many business opportunities, co-op partnership and internship arrangements. Visit our Bid Solicitation page to learn about bidding on various construction projects, goods and services MC needs. Visit our Institutes and Partnerships page learn how you can mentor, meet, train and perhaps hire our great students, including honors students. Visit our Internship Home Page to learn about the various disciplines' internship program for help on finding highly skilled, recently trained entry-level interns and potential employees.  Also, you can post job and internship opportunities on our EJobs web site.

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Macklin Business Institute

The Macklin Business Institute, Rockville Campus, selects and trains honor sophomore students in business, accounting and finance, and provides them with business mentors and internship opportunities.  Macklin also sponsors the Center for Entrepreneurship. The CFE serves as an educational, training, and enterprise resource for students and the business community, and provides a catalyst for growing business and entrepreneurial education. If you would like to be a mentor or sponsor a business/management/finance internship, please contact the Macklin Business Institute.

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Montgomery College Foundation

The Montgomery College Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization governed by business, alumni and community leaders to enhance the work of Montgomery College. Private contributions from local businesses, foundations, community leaders, and alumni have helped to create premier programs in the arts, humanities, business, and biotech areas which rival those among the country's elite colleges and universities.  If you would like to learn more about the Foundation, join on its board of directors or contribute, please visit the MC Foundation web site.

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Employment Opportunities

A.  Working For Montgomery College. 

Would you like to work for Montgomery College?  See our Human Resources / Employment web site.

B.  Hiring Montgomery College Students or Interns - Career Centers and Internship Programs. 

Would you like to hire a highly skilled undergraduate or graduate employee or intern, recently trained in your field with the latest information? 

• Visit our Career Center and the individual Career Center offices on the Rockville, Takoma Park, and Germantown campuses for information on employing recent graduates or undergraduates;
• Visit our Internship/Co-Op web page for information on hiring interns for on-the-job experience while they are still in school;
• Visit our TechLEAP IT retraining program for information on graduate student, recently retrained IT specialists in programming, web applications, and computer networking admininstration.

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C. Posting Jobs or Internships At Montgomery College - EJobs.

Montgomery College provides multiple programs and initiatives to help businesses post opportunities and identify qualified students for internships and part-time or full-time jobs.  The wide variety of employer assistance programs reflect the college's broad reach into all sectors of the Montgomery County community in Maryland's largest local government unit.

You can post part-time and full-time jobs and internships at Montgomery College's EJobs web site.  There is no charge for this service.  Simply register as an employer and post your opportunity.  The College's Student Employment Services Office will approve your posting within a day.  Students then apply electronically or as you specify for your opening.  You can also review and search posted student resumes. 

For additional assistance, please contact the college internship programs, undergraduate departments, and Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs such as TechLEAP/WebLEAP or the Health Sciences Institute to help you find qualified students with the technical skills and training you need.

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Giving to MC

There are many traditional ways that business and alumni can contribute to and partner with Montgomery College.  The Montgomery College Foundation, described above, organizes significant new initiatives for the College in a variety of areas. The College also has scholarship and internship opportunities, named endowed scholarships, and institutes such as the Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement, Macklin Business Institute, Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education, and the proposed new Bioscience Education Center in Germantown, which offer contribution and partnership opportunities to area businesses.  Contact the MC Alumni Office for further information and additional contact information on any of these opportunities.

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Workforce Development & Continuing Education
Business, Information Technology, & Safety
Gaithersburg Business Training Center
12 South Summit Ave.,
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Contact:  Erica Neal
240-567-2585
Erica.Neal@montgomerycollege.edu

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