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Winning Internship

What Is an Internship?


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 (UMBC, n.d.).
Internship provide people to make practical what they have learned at the class room. It will provide win win situation for both young people  who is trying to start their career  and the organization with having fresh talent. But in reality some of the interns get no payment and some of them get payment according to the organizational level.
 
Mostly below mentioned people are looking for an internships.

  • High school students
  • Undergraduate students
  • Graduate students
  • International students
  • Career changing professionals


Benefits for interns and the organization 

  • Skills development of interns - Experiencing an internship may help young people to enhance their interpersonal competencies 

  • Internships are useful for developing soft skills and interpersonal skills, such as professionalism, cultural sensitivity, time management and integrity, that are not generally part of the formal tertiary education curriculum (Holyoak, 2013; Shoenfelt et al., 2013). 

  • It will help you ng people to build network for life long among new organizations by working as an intern. This will make t easy to grow in career path in future positions and find new opportunities after getting the internship experience. 

  • Theories may totally different from what people have to do at their job task. Getting exposure to an internship will create more chance to learn new applications and the way of happening things in a professional background rather than getting knowledge form the university .From that people me get an idea of how to adapt to new works tasks based on what they have to preform. 

  • Interns are one of the best assets within the organization. They have fresh knowledge and fresh ideas with number of competencies as well. having interns with seeking for new opportunities may play high performance at any given tasks.

  • Hiring interns in the busier period will make easy for organization to get support for their work and to reduce work lord of their employees. This will provide chance to learn new things for interns and organization may get benefit from reducing employee stress and work lord.

  • Organization have to have their employees as mentors , leaders of supervisors to train them in their given tasks. It can promote chance to enhance leadership skills of existing employees and to enhance their supervising skills.

Role of HR to build a winning internship program

  • Structuring the internship program - Full internship program will be depend on the structure of the organizational internship program. 
To begin building a successful internship program, it is important to first consider the intended purpose of the program. Do you aim to fill skill gaps within your organization, develop and nurture talent from within, or is it part of your corporate social investment (CSI) initiative? Clarifying the purpose of your internship program will help you create a program that aligns with your organization's goals and objectives and attract the type of talent that values your strategy(Anon, 2023).

  • Highlight what the role is looks like -  It is important to communicate and clearly show  the task what they have to do. Transparency will attract more people to any organization. It is vital to let them know and have proper communication on salary ( if paying ) , role , working hours and mode to give them better understand around the internship.

  • Make it with selective candidates - Organization may attract many talented people when offering an internship. Since this is a cost of selection HR generalists should select most valuable and talented people for the program to get better output. OR that HR department can easily go with the applications and screening cv to call them to an interview before offerings the internship.

  • Give meaningful and work rather than get coffee - Organization must provide proper work and meaning full things and treated as organizational employees since they have fresh competencies which beneficial for the organization. instead of that providing them a proper program and task they will have trust and loyalty about the organization that they have a value within this organization. It will cause to enhance company name within other parties as well. 

  • Invest in trainings - Provide training and development for interns may helps organization to maximize their potential and to het high performance with enhanced skills.

  • Show them how important they are - While organization showing them that how impactful they are to the organization will enrich the motivation and willingness to work. From that they are able to see the big picture of how they make influence on achieving organizational goals

(Anon, n.d.)

References 

  • Ismail, Z. (2018). Benefits of Internships for Interns and Host Organizations. [online] 
          Available at:                    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5b3b5de3ed915d33c7d58e52/Internships.pdf.

  • Anon, (2023). How to Build Winning Internship Programs: 11 Useful Tips. [online]
         Available at: https://wamly.io/build-winning-internship-programs/

         [Accessed 4 May 2023].

  • Anon, (n.d.). How To Run a Successful Internship Program! | The Intern Queen. [online]
        Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnSqhSaLFW8 
        [Accessed 4 May 2023]

Comments

  1. MOHAMED RAHMATH RALLYMay 4, 2023 at 4:13 PM

    good content

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  2. Mahinda MBAMay 5, 2023 at 1:02 AM

    This blog is also quite interesting because i did not find this type of topic throughout this commenting process, you prepared the blog with well understanding of internship - good work.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Madhumali Thilakarathna (madhuHR Cure Blog)May 5, 2023 at 6:22 AM

    Internship is helpful to enhance soft skill of employees good content. Thank you

    ReplyDelete

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