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Types: Work Experience Non-Profit Organizations

An internship is a period of temporary work experience offered by an organization. Internships allow students and graduates to gain skills and experience in a particular field while allowing employers to evaluate potential employees. Internships can be paid, unpaid, or partially paid and typically last one to four months. The main goals of internships are to determine if an intern is interested in a particular field after experiencing real work and to build a professional network.

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Types: Work Experience Non-Profit Organizations

An internship is a period of temporary work experience offered by an organization. Internships allow students and graduates to gain skills and experience in a particular field while allowing employers to evaluate potential employees. Internships can be paid, unpaid, or partially paid and typically last one to four months. The main goals of internships are to determine if an intern is interested in a particular field after experiencing real work and to build a professional network.

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An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time.

[1]
 Once confined to medical graduates, internship is used for a wide range of placements in
businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies. They are typically undertaken by
students and graduates looking to gain relevant skills and experience in a particular field. Employers
benefit from these placements because they often recruit employees from their best interns, who
have known capabilities, thus saving time and money in the long run. Internships are usually
arranged by third-party organizations that recruit interns on behalf of industry groups. Rules vary
from country to country about when interns should be regarded as employees. The system can be
open to exploitation by unscrupulous employers.
Internships for professional careers are similar in some ways, but not as rigorous
as apprenticeships for professions, trade, and vocational jobs.[2] The lack of standardization and
oversight leaves the term "internship" open to broad interpretation. Interns may be high school
students, college and university students, or post-graduate adults. These positions may be paid or
unpaid and are temporary.[3]
Typically, an internship consists of an exchange of services for experience between the intern and
the organization. Internships are used to determine if the intern still has an interest in that field after
the real-life experience. In addition, an internship can be used to create a professional network that
can assist with letters of recommendation or lead to future employment opportunities. The benefit of
bringing an intern into full-time employment is that they are already familiar with the company, their
position, and they typically need little to no training. Internships provide current college students the
ability to participate in a field of their choice to receive hands-on learning about a particular future
career, preparing them for full-time work following graduation.[3][4]

Types[edit]
Internships exist in a wide variety of industries and settings. An internship can be paid, unpaid, or
partially paid (in the form of a stipend).[5][6] Internships may be part-time or full-time and are usually
flexible with students' schedules. A typical internship lasts between one and four months,[7] but can
be shorter or longer, depending on the organization involved. The act of job shadowing may also
constitute interning.[8]

 Paid internships are common in professional fields


including medicine, architecture, science, engineering, law, business
(especially accounting and finance), technology, and advertising.[9] Work experience internships
usually occur during the second or third year of schooling. This type of internship is to expand an
intern's knowledge both in their school studies and also at the company. The intern is expected
to bring ideas and knowledge from school into the company.[10]
 Work research, virtual research (graduation) or dissertation: This is mostly done by
students who are in their final year of school. With this kind of internship, a student does
research for a particular company.[11] The company can have something that they feel they need
to improve, or the student can choose a topic in the company themselves. The results of the
research study will be put in a report and often will have to be presented.[11]
 Unpaid internships are typically through non-profit charities and think tanks which often
have unpaid or volunteer positions.[5] State law and state enforcement agencies may impose
requirements on unpaid internship programs under Minimum Wage Act. A program must meet
criteria to be properly classified as an unpaid internship.
 Partially-paid internships is when students are paid in the form of a stipend. Stipends are
typically a fixed amount of money that is paid out on a regular basis. Usually, interns that are
paid with stipends are paid on a set schedule associated with the organization.[5]
Another type of internship growing in popularity is the virtual internship, in which the intern works
remotely, and is not physically present at the job location. It provides the capacity to gain job
experience without the conventional requirement of being physically present in an office. The
internship is conducted via virtual means, such as phone, email, and web communication. Virtual
interns generally have the opportunity to work at their own pace.[12]

Internship for a fee


Companies in search of interns often find and place students in mostly unpaid internships, for a fee.
[13]
 These companies charge students to assist with research, promising to refund the fee if no
internship is found.[14] The programs vary and aim to provide internship placements at reputable
companies. Some companies may also provide controlled housing in a new city, mentorship,
support, networking, weekend activities or academic credit.[6]
Some companies specifically fund scholarships and grants for low-income applicants.[5] Critics of
internships criticize the practice of requiring certain college credits to be obtained only through
unpaid internships.[15] Depending on the cost of the school, this is often seen as an unethical practice,
as it requires students to exchange paid-for and often limited tuition credits to work an
uncompensated job.[16] Paying for academic credits is a way to ensure students complete the
duration of the internship, since they can be held accountable by their academic institution. For
example, a student may be awarded academic credit only after their university receives a positive
review from the intern's supervisor at the sponsoring organization.[17]

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