ADP Summer Internship Programs: A Launchpad for Future Careers

ADP (Automatic Data Processing) offers a variety of summer internship programs designed to immerse students in the company's culture, provide real-world experience, and identify potential full-time employees upon graduation. These programs span various departments and locations, catering to students with diverse interests and skill sets. ADP aims to make a difference for people around the world, by helping them reach their potential. There is no such thing as just another day at the office. Far from it. ADP believes in collaboration, meaning and friendships.

A Journey to the Future: Exploring ADP's Internship Opportunities

ADP's internship programs offer a unique opportunity to share ideas, meet new people, and solve real-world problems. The company actively seeks sharp, creative, driven, and friendly students from campuses across the country, emphasizing the importance of "nice." ADP encourages students to explore the possibilities within its global company, spanning technology, sales, finance, marketing, and other areas.

Sales Internships: Prospecting and Solution Selling

ADP provides 8-week, 32-hour per week, project-based summer sales internships. These internships include an online and formal classroom training program to equip interns with the skills to prospect for new business and sell additional solutions to existing ADP clients within an assigned geographic territory. This hands-on experience provides valuable insights into the sales process and client relationship management.

Global Product Technology (GPT) Development Program: Shaping Tech Leaders

The Global Product Technology (GPT) Development Program is tailored for Tech grads, encompassing both bachelors and master level students. This full-time program features formal classroom training, a case study project, and networking opportunities with executive leadership. The GPT program aims to develop future technology leaders within ADP.

Payroll Academy in EMEA: A Career Change Opportunity

ADP’s Payroll Academy in EMEA is offered in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK. This training program is designed for individuals from varied work backgrounds who are seeking a career change to Payroll Specialist with ADP. The program provides trainees with the opportunity to learn a payroll skillset while working on the job and gaining practical experience. Within a year, trainees are typically ready to work independently and provide payroll services to clients.

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Tech & Service Internships: Project-Based Learning

ADP offers 12-week, 40-hour per week, project-based internships for Tech & Service Grads, welcoming both Bachelors and Masters students. Based on performance during the internship, a full-time opportunity post-graduation may be offered. This program allows students to apply their academic knowledge to real-world projects and gain practical experience in their respective fields.

Trainee Programs: On-the-Job Training

ADP provides a 6-month trainee program with the potential for a full-time position upon graduation. The role offered, whether a specialist role or a technical support role, is based on the individual's strengths and willingness. During the internship, trainees receive on-the-job training to gain practical experience and develop their skills.

Brazil Labs: Fostering Future Technology Leaders

Brazil labs attract more than 10,000 applicants every year. Its mission is to support students’ professional achievements, develop their skills, and help them to become future technology leaders. The program offers internship opportunities for students for up to two years, with contract renewals every six months. The areas of UX, Software Development, and QA are the main areas of activity. The program consists of 30 hours a week.

The ADP Childcare Internship: Observing and Developing Professional Skills

The ADP childcare internship, completed by every student in the minor, enables students to observe child development, education, and policy in action, and to develop hands-on professional skills and experience. Placements are determined by program needs, classroom availability and ADP's commitment to developing breadth as well as depth in students’ experience. The ADP core coursework and internship are closely integrated, enabling students to learn as they teach and to strengthen their own development while providing a valuable service to the children, staff and families with whom they work.

Psychology 134A/134D, 134B/134E and 134C are taken in consecutive quarters. The lecture/discussion portion of the course is 3.5 hours per week, taken on a 4-unit, letter grading basis, and the concurrent internship component is 9 hours per week (15 hours per week during summer sessions), taken on a 2-unit, P/NP grading basis. Psychology 134A is to be taken concurrently with Psychology 134D and Psychology 134B is to be taken concurrently with Psychology 134E.

Since the fall 1997, all approved ADP Childcare Internship sites are accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs. Each ADP student intern is placed at a pre-approved site and paired with an experienced teacher. Their supervising teacher serves as their guide and mentor throughout the three quarters of their internship. One of the sites is University Village Center: 3233 S.

What Do ADP Campus Childcare Interns Do?

Whether the center opens early in the morning or closes later in the evening, interns are greeted with warm waves, smiles, and even a knee hug from the children. They engage in hands-on activities from prepping snacks to rocking children to sleep. They experience close interactions with the children through reading stories together while also learning about each individual child’s development through close observation. Although working with young children may seem like all fun and games, interns must complete daily tasks such as sweeping the outside patio, continuously sanitizing tasted toys, cleaning up peas that have fallen off the table during lunch, and changing poopy diapers. They come to discover that they can learn from every moment (even the less glamorous or dramatic ones), and that their unique experience with the children and teachers makes even the tedious tasks worthwhile. Diaper changes, for example, become opportunities to engage and share one-on-one moments with a child.

Community-Engaged Early Childhood Internship (CEECI)

The COVID-19 pandemic demanded that ADP diversify the internship to include remote and community-engaged internships that provide students with the opportunity to work with young children, their families, and their communities beyond UCLA. In doing so, ADP embraced the opportunity to better address systemic barriers to high quality early childhood care, education, and resources. Since 2021, 70 ADP students have volunteered over 5,600 hours and partnered with 15 non-profit agencies to combat the intertwined effects of systemic racism, poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic.

After initiating a remote-only version of the Community-Engaged Early Childhood Internship, CEECI, in 2021, students in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 “A” cohorts completed at least 150 hours at their UCLA childcare site and 50-90 hours in a community-engaged internship. Some internships are designed to be remote, some hybrid, and some in-person throughout metropolitan LA. In 2023-24, ADP students were invited to participate in CEECI upon completion of at least two quarters of the core sequence and campus childcare internship.

Requirements for the ADP Childcare Internship

Because the ADP internship involves placement at a childcare program licensed by the State of California Department of Social Services, state law requires that all interns complete the following clearances and certifications prior to beginning at their internship site. Students are expected to complete these requirements by the middle of the quarter after their admission to ADP.

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Livescan electronic fingerprint background check involving clearance with both the CA Department of Social Services and the CA Department of Justice. This procedure can be completed at the UCLA Police station following admission to ADP and assignment to an internship site.
Health screening, immunizations and TB-test (or chest X-ray). The health screening can be performed by your personal physician or by UCLA Student Health Services. The health screening and immunization updates (including with the current inflluenza vaccination) must be completed before employment begins or initial presence in the facility is permitted. Costs vary.
Adult and Infant CPR and Basic First Aid.
Students are required to purchase course readers for both 134A and 134B courses at a cost of approximately $40-45 each, and occasional minor costs for materials (e.g., report covers, poster board, optional materials for children’s curriculum).

Making an Internship Memorable: Real-World Projects and a Creative Environment

An internship at ADP is designed to be memorable. Interns take on real-world projects, work with fun, cool people in a creative environment, and have experiences that go beyond just looking good on a resume. ADP wants everyone who works at ADP to feel great about their career choice.

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