Choose your internship wisely; it can provide you with valuable experience. Such experience makes a good impression on your resume and can help you determine career objectives that best fit your personal interests. This, in turn, helps you and potential employers to match objectives for a more fulfilling work relationship.
Interns are often seen as possible candidates for employment. An internship is a rare opportunity to prove your value to an employer in a way that a resume cannot provide.
Experience a variety of internships, if possible. A degree in a single discipline, such as biology or journalism, can train you for a number of different types of jobs. A variety of internships provide opportunities to explore these differences before making important career objective decisions.
You will gain skills that are more tightly focused in an internship than those practiced at the university level, which are more general in scope. Such skills will enhance your qualification for jobs that are within the range of your personal career objectives.
Internships provide an opportunity for students to become acquainted with and develop attitudes that employers seek. An employer for whom you interned will be happy to share information about your great attitude with others.
Good students have developed good study habits, but good work habits are developed through the kind of direct work experience that an internship provides.
Discover and develop your expertise in jobs for which you have an aptitude to succeed. This will help focus your expertise, making your internship experience more valuable to potential employers.
Businesses who have been impressed with your skill, attitude and work habits as an intern can provide recommendations upon which a potential employer may offer a higher starting salary.
Resumes that include internship experiences communicate to future employers that you are serious, aggressive and committed to success. Eagerness to succeed not only increases the possibility of employment after graduation, but also increases the opportunity to enter into selective management and other leadership training programs.
An understanding of the objectives of businesses who hire interns is an integral part of the student’s career objective in accepting an internship. Is this business looking for free help or attempting to evaluate a potential employee? Students who choose an internship wisely will benefit from a good match between themselves and their employer. Such a match may result in valuable experience for the student and a potential, low-risk hiring opportunity for the employer who gains useful insight into the work habits and abilities of the intern that could lead to a job offer.