Summer Internship the Way step into corporates
Arjun Kale
Corporate Relations || Training & Placement - Industry-Academia Partnerships || Career Progression || Internship & Placement || Campus Recruitment || CSR | HTD | Talent Acquisition || HR-BP | Business Development
Summer internship is an important career steppingstone and offer the opportunity to work closely with industry professionals in the field of your choice, and to develop knowledge, competencies, and experience related directly to your interested filed to achieve your career goals.
?According to Catherine Ahlgren, Assistant Dean for Career Services, Boston University School of Management, summer internships are essential for MBA candidates changing careers or with less work experience than their peers.?“The competition is greater now that many candidates have more years of relevant experience; the more prepared a candidate is, the better their chances of success.”
Reasons why internship are important and beneficial
Internships as serving two purposes:
Student’s will test a student’s career choice and help build new skills that will benefit the student in the long-term career.?
Learning Opportunity:
During the first-hand industry exposures students will get chance to learn certain important professional skills that will enhance their employability in the future skills like time management, communication, teamwork, flexibility, technical, problem solving and stress management skills etc. that can help them to be successful in their career.
Test industry Knowledge:
Classroom learning will give theoretical knowledge and chance to learn the concepts. Internship is an opportunity to apply your classroom knowledge and concepts what you have learned into the real industry world for example If you learn business writing in business communication you will apply this for email etiquette to write clear and brief but comprehensive email as a part of internal communication
Inspired you to learn about Industry:
The right internship will inspire you learn more about different industry sector’s and make you more passionate about your desired career options into different sector’s
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Introduces you to corporate culture / Environment:
Smooth transformation from classroom to Corporate culture internship is the perfect opportunity to learn how to approach the professionals in industry this transformation includes components such as general attitudes and behaviours etc. learning about corporate culture can teach you how to maintain good relationship with future industry professional and how to effectively communicate suggestion with upper management to make changes or how to ask for suggestion and guidance ?
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Crystallization of Career Path:
The internship offers a realistic job preview for interns. It leads to crystallization of their personal interests and career ambitions. Internship helps students to know their compatibility with a particular career option and makes students realize whether they should pursue the same career or think of an alternative option.
Discover the real world:
Working with industry as intern gives you hand on experience you are not join internship for the sake of earn university course credit you are there with industry to work, bigger companies have internship in place to ensure that interns earn real industry experience.
Working intern with small companies no worries you can work with smaller company start-up companies just make sure that you have someone to guide you through the process so that you can gain real world experience as much as possible even start-up companies give more chance to implement your thoughts, experiments your strategies.??
Gain the Confidence:
Yes, Internship gives the most important benefit to build your confidence to know you can do it. Find out right opportunity and go for same if you love marketing find a company that interest you and love marketing there?