International Internships

As much as students strive to bag internships in celebrated businesses, businesses are too on the lookout for these young talents. This also leads to the most asked question by students, Are the businesses seeking cheap labor in the form of interns? Certainly not! With changing times, the notion that ‘interns are cheap labor’ is also changing drastically. Interns today are seen as potential pools of hires and future talent resources for the business. Internships, thus, are well designed and engaging, facilitating the interns to draw the best from their stint with the professional world and helping the companies nurture potential employees. Internships aim to enhance a student's academic, career, and personal development. Supervised by a professional or expert in the field of study, an internship offers the students a chance to learn by doing and the opportunity to achieve their own learning goals, without having to meet the obligations of a full-time employee...

It seems like the back-to-school season is still in the rearview mirror, but in actuality, it's time to start thinking ahead. I'm not talking about your plans of going home for the semester, or figuring out where you're heading for Spring Break; I'm talking about getting to know how to tailor you résumé and figuring out how to get an internship. But you should know that it's not that easy to just walk into your dream office and say, "Hey, when do we get started?" So how to get an internship and secure the job you have been dreaming of? In The Coffee Run and Other Internship Need-To-Knows, Sydney Fulkerson , a self-proclaimed internship expert, gives the internship advice she wishes someone had told her too. She was inspired to share the experiences after her friends kept asking her for tips and tricks. Here are five ways you can snag your dream internship, based on The Coffee Run and Fulkerson’ s first-hand stories. Start planning for the s...

An internship in the human resources field can provide valuable insight into an evolving profession that is responsible for cultivating and maintaining qualified workforces. The responsibilities of an HR employee vary based on the industry and the size of a company, so look for an organization that's representative of the type of work you're most interested in pursuing. Step 1 Identify companies you want to internship with. If you're interested in a particular aspect of human resources, such as hiring and training, employment law, benefits, dispute resolution or employee contracts, seek out organizations that can provide you with the most viable opportunities to learn about these key areas. Step 2 Ask your personal contacts for referrals to HR managers and companies that meet your criteria. Go to family, friends, and your college or university's internship coordination or career counseling department. These people might be able to give you an inside contact that can pav...

Internships are where higher education meets employment; they allow students to gain experience working in an organization while studying at university. They can be paid or unpaid and allow you to work in an organization for a set period, which could be anything from one intensive week, to interning once a week for twelve months. In some courses, such as medicine, nursing and education, which require access to hospitals and schools, industry placements are standard and are organized by the university. Other courses, such as those in the arts, business, engineering, law, information technology and science fields, vary between institutions and may or may not include industry placements or internship subjects, placing the onus largely on the student. Even if your course does contain an internship component it doesn’t mean that you can’t take on another internship at other stages of the course; after all, the more experience you have, the better. It is likely that your lecturers and tutor...