Tips For Landing Your First Internship Successfully

Internships play an important role in shaping one’s career. It  helps undergraduates and graduate students to develop the necessary skills required to perform well in a competiting job environment. An Internship is a short-term work experience offered by companies and other organizations especially for students to get an entry level in a particular firm or industry.

Importance Of Internship

Education and job are two different zones. The internship is actually the connecting bridge between these two zones. So by doing internship you can recognize the most suitable path for you career. Through internships one can understand various kinds of works occuring inside a firm or industry. Internships can be of two types, paid and unpaid. It is little more difficult to get paid internship compared to unpaid internship . However, whether it is paid or unpaid, all kinds of internships can provide you with sufficient experience and knowledge required in your selected field. When a student join in an internship program that means he/she joins in a network that will last for a life time. Internships secure a successful way to find job. Connecting with many people provide help and references along their career. By doing internship graduates can also engage themselves in a real work force without signing any contract with the firm there by reducing the unnecessary stress on them. Characteristics like integrity, commitment, and self-motivation are several traits that are learned through an internship.

Benefits of Internships

Internships can help you gain valuable work experience, fulfill college requirements and give you material to add to your resume. They can introduce you to many aspects of full-time employment while allowing you to explore your interests and form your personal career goals. There are so many benefits by doing internship. Some of them are listed below.

• Job Experience

• Helps to build a strong resume

•  Secure good references and recommendations

• Helps to build confidence

• Mentorship

• Helps to build a professional network
• Helps to gain a valuable skill set
• Can discover your career passion

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Tips For Getting Internship

• Create a convincing resume.
• Use internship search engines.
• Take advantage of social media.
• Browse regularly.
• Try to attend job fairs.
• Make networks.
• Ace the upcoming interviews.

Tips for Landing your First Internship Successfully

Double Check Your Resume

The first thing you need to have a clean and clear resume. Try to check it more than once and if you see any errors like spelling mistake, grammar mistakes correct them. You can also ask others to check. Search your resume for any inaccuracies or situations where you may have stretched the truth like ( the job that shows you as holding a position in the entertainment industry, but the actual job was some other ).You should correct all these inaccuracies because during the interview process if they organization came to know about this you could be fired out from the list.

Make A Network

Introduce yourself to everyone and keep a contact with each one and try to sense what they do. Keeping a nice connection with your coworkers may help you in future. The better job you do and the more familiar your supervisor and other employees are with your personality and your work, the stronger the recommendation.

Find The Right Internship

If  you are looking for opportunities to achieve more experience and if you want to be yourself best, it’s time to start looking for the right internship. The best place is start with your network. Firstly you can ask your parents, friends and faculty members to know if there is any opportunity. Secondly you can go through with some other career agents with whom you had already established a connection, they should have a a clear picture of opportunity about what you are looking for.

Set Goals

Try to set meeting with your supervisor and ask them what they are expecting from you. Make request for feedback what you have done to check you are in right track. Share your interest with your supervisors and ask if there are any opportunities in that field. It is important to set clear expectations and goals from the beginning.  Goals are also important for measuring the success of your internship program.

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Highlight The Experience

You should describe all relevant experience you have in the industry, as well as any special knowledge you may have acquired in the field thus far. You can highlight your experience in a highly visible place on your resume.

Be Professional

Don’t forget the basics of common courtesy – be punctual, say thank you, follow up and follow through. Always aware of how to be with your coworkers and supervisors. Try to know the appropriate attire for your workplace.

Keep Track Of Your Projects

List all the projects you have worked on so that you can discuss your progress with your supervisor. It will also help you remember everything you’ve worked on to update your resume, add to a portfolio, or talk about in a future interview.

Time Management

Always complete your work on time and ask for another if needed. You can ask your supervisor to prioritize your work if your are fascinated about the project.

Stay Organized

Take notes during all meetings and keep to-do lists of tasks and deadlines. Keep your work space neat so that your work is organized and out of the way when you are not around. Serve and maintain records according to the policy.

Ask About Full-Time Roles

There is no guarantee that doing internship in a company will lead to a permanent placement in that company. You can ask your supervisor for giving you a full time role in that company during the interview or once you land the position, as it shows your interest in joining the company, and gives the company some time to consider the possibility of hiring you full-time or giving you a  new post in that organization.

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Practice For The Interview

Before attending an interview you can go through the company’s website to know the basic knowledge about the company. So when going for the interview you should consider the questions asking about company’s strategy and what they expect from the interns etc. This may helpful to convey the message that you are a good thinker and you are truly interested in the position and the organization.

Some of the popular interview questions include:

Why are you interested in this profession?

What makes you different or special?

Where do you see yourself in five years?

What do you want to do with your life? etc…..

Highlight Flexibility

There are many set of job duties assigned to interns. Sometimes interns are used as “gofers” (as in go for this, or go for that) and they have given duties that no one else in the office wants to do. So your assigned duties may vary frequently and may not be known by the employer at the time of your interview. For this reason interns should be flexible that means they are willing to do any work based upon the company’s needs.

Landing an internship doesn’t have to be an overly traumatic experience. Above given tips can help a student not only achieve the position they want, but also gains the experience that can help to land their career.