Internship and volunteer experience can be exceptionally valuable
to your career if you are lucky enough to snag those opportunities. We have
compiled a list of reasons why landing an internship or volunteer opportunity
can be one of the most important tasks while in search of a job.
- Potential
employers see you in action. Employers love
to have interns and volunteers. It allows them to “try out” a potential
employee to see if they will fit into the culture of the organization and
if the skills they have or can develop are what the employer is looking
for. If the organization is not currently hiring, they may know someone
who is. Personal references are always great ways to get a job you’re
interested in.
- You
develop a sense of workforce expectations. Are you new
to an industry or organization, and not sure what it is all about? Use
your internship or volunteer experience as a way to learn about your
industry’s expectations and opportunities. Maybe you’ll love it and
couldn’t see yourself working anywhere else, or maybe you will decide it’s
not for you. Either way, it’s better to figure this out now then 10 years
from now when you are unsatisfied with your career choice.
- Ability
to network with professionals in your field. This is your
time to shine. Get to know the people who are in your field; this doesn’t
just include upper management. Get to know everyone and learn from them.
Ask them questions and discuss opportunities. Build those relationships
continuously and keep them active.
- Ability to apply classroom coursework to the position. As a student
you might have wondered how all those theories you have been learning will
relate to the workforce. An internship or is a great way to make
those connections, see people in action, as well as offer you the
opportunity to job shadow someone in the position you’d like to hold one
day. Hopefully, they’d be able to show you how they applied knowledge from
the classroom into their everyday work, and answer questions.
- Introduction to specific industry cultures and
etiquette. Get to know
the culture and etiquette of the business. Maybe you have experience in
the medical field where you are very hands-on with patients, and you want
to move to an administration role that is not hands-on, but more computer
and files based. In making the change, you may need to change the way you
work with people so you don’t offend anyone. Another example would be if
you are working for an international company that does business with other
countries often where U.S. etiquette is not always appropriate. It is
better to learn the culture and etiquette of the business now verses
later.
Industrial Visits
- Industrial visit has its own importance in a career of a student
who is pursuing a professional degree. It is considered as a part of
college curriculum, mainly seen in engineering/MBA courses.
- Objectives of
industrial visit is to provide students an insight regarding internal
working of companies. We know, theoretical knowledge is not enough for
making a good professional career.
- With an aim to go beyond academics, industrial visit provides
student a practical perspective on the world of work. It provides
students with an opportunity to learn practically through interaction,
working methods and employment practices. It gives them exposure to
current work practices as opposed to possibly theoretical knowledge being
taught at college.
- Industrial visits provide an excellent opportunity to interact with
industries and know more about industrial environment. Industrial visits
are arranged by colleges to students with an objective of providing
students functional opportunity in different sectors like IT,
Manufacturing and services, finance and marketing.
- Industrial visit helps to combine theoretical knowledge with
industrial knowledge.Industrial realities are opened to the students
through industrial visits.
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