Internship
About Internship
An internship is a professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related to a student’s field of study or career interest. An internship gives a student the opportunity for career exploration and development, and to learn new skills.
It offers the employer the opportunity to bring new ideas and energy into the workplace, develop talent and potentially build a pipeline for future full-time employees.
Benefits of Hiring an Intern:
- Ease workload of regular employees
- Enable employees to focus on higher level tasks
- Meet short-term staffing needs
- Utilize a cost effective employment strategy
- Obtain access to highly motivated students who can fill staffing needs
It involves critical monitoring of work or service experience, in which the intern has purposeful learning objectives. Further, it clearly showcases what the intern has learnt throughout the experience, as well as it leads to the all-round development of the learner, be it academic, professional, personal and social.
- Duration: 1 month to 1 year
- Short term internship: 15 Days to 1 Month
- Commitment: Part-time or full time
- Remuneration: Paid or Unpaid
In other words, an internship is a short term training, wherein the intern learns and develops skills in a particular domain or career.