What is an Internship and How it is effective?

Internship is on-job training that students, employees and white collar individuals can do to gain more experience and professional skills in a particular field. Usually college and university students do internship in different organizations to improve their expertise in the field in which they have studied. Internship is provided to the individuals on short term basis during which they work for the organization and understand the professional environment. Internship is an excellent way to connect students and unemployed individuals to an organization where they can find their bright future after getting experience. At the end of internship, internship certificate and license is given to the internees.

Internship can be very effective and beneficial for students and employees in several ways. Here I want to mention how internship can be effective both for internees and employees.

Benefits of internship for internees

• Internees can gain valuable work experience that will help them to improve their professional skills and making them a part of professional life. It is very difficult for fresh job seekers and individuals who are looking for changing their career to find their desired job and mostly they are rejected by employers. Internship provides them a way to enter in the field where they want to excel.
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• Individuals can make right decision about choosing a career while doing internship in a certain field. We can say that internship offers them an opportunity to explore their hidden skills and they can choose right field for them.
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• Fresh graduates can apply their classroom knowledge in the real pace just to gain more and more experience and improve their professional skills. They can also judge their qualification and study in the scenario of organizational structure.
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• Internship experience also boosts up confidence level of students that they never have as students and new comers in a particular field. Internship provides them a best way to gain confidence, interpersonal communication skills, professionally spoken and ways to handle the problems occur in professional environment.

Benefits of Internship for employers

Lots of organizations offer internship programs for fresh graduates and unemployed individuals. These internship programs are really beneficial for them as:

• Employers can meet ultimate organizational needs by providing internship opportunities to highly qualified, motivated and shinning students.
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• Employers hire internees to purse some of their mega projects. Internees are very helpful in assisting current employees to meet the project needs. They can also meet seasonal needs of the organization by hiring internees with short term commitment.
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• Offering internship opportunities to individuals is a cost effective system for employers and they can increase their productivity.
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• Organizations can build a strong and continuous relationship with different college and universities to get fresh talent when they need.
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• Employers become a source of growing new talent and most effective individuals for different fields.

So internship can be said a very good opportunity both for unemployed individuals and employers to meet their organizational and career needs in the best way.