Each year more and more students are looking for internships in their countries and internationally too. Each year, more and more Cvs and cover letter over load HR desks to be looked at for a few seconds. So how come there is such a big interest in these internships.
An internship is an experience that provides a a little incite on the working environment in which each person will come once they have graduated. These internships are opportunities for the students but also for the companies recruiting them. Why would they waste time training students if they did not have an idea behind the head.
The student will gain, through the internship, an experience that cannot be beaten by the theoretical knowledge you get in school. Depending on the length of his stay, he may just have the chance to observe and understand the role of members of a team in the working environment or be part of that team and participate in the decision making. The trainee, or intern, may be in charge of a project and understand the meaning of a deadline and to have to meet objectives of productivity or sales objectives.
The company on the other hand will find in this internship the possibility to accomplish side jobs for example that the actual team doesn't have time to do. Analysis of data and preparation of these analysis. The creation of tools to measure daily, weekly, monthly progress, is interesting, invites the trainee in the team and is beneficial to the company.
Internships are part of today's society and it is to each company and intern to make the most of this work experience. There is no bad internship, it is the intern's responsibility to make it interesting. Not everything will be perfect but you always learn from every internship, experience, challenge you face.
Thomas Coudron