What is an internship?
When you complete a course from college and after that you want to gain work experience before applying for any kind of job, then you have to do an internship. To do an internship, you take admission in an institute and there you do an internship of 6 months, 1 year, 2 years or 3 years.
When your internship is completed, you are also given a certificate of completion of internship by the institute, this is very useful for you when you go to give an interview for a job in a company, because those who have an internship certificate have more chances of getting selected.
Internship is called "Prakshituta" in Hindi language. If a student has done a course like MBA, BBA or MBBS, then it is considered necessary for them to do an internship and this happens only when they complete their course or are in the last year of the course.
The internship certificate that you get contains the following information.
• Complete information about you.
• Information about the subject in which you have done the internship.
• Information about which institute you have done the internship with.
• Information about how many years you have done the internship.
What are the types of internships?
Here we want to tell you clearly that you get many types of internships but mainly only 5 types of internships are considered. Information about all those five types of internships has been mentioned below.
1. Work Research
Students who reach the final year of their graduation in a college, do work research internship. Under which the students have to do research on the company or institute itself and prepare a report of it.
2. Virtual Internship
This type of internship is becoming very popular among people during the havoc of Corona virus, because to do this you do not have to go to the field, but you can do it at home, for which you need a laptop as well as internet. Apart from this, you also need a smartphone.
3. Paid Internship
People who want to gain work experience do this type of internship more and at the same time they want to get money along with learning the work. Generally speaking, big and private companies offer this type of internship. By doing this, the person also does an internship and also gets the necessary money for his expenses.
4. Unpaid Internship
Compared to paid internship, you get to do unpaid internship easily, because in this the institute from which you do internship does not pay you. Yes, you get good work experience there and after completing the internship, you are also given a certificate by the institute, so that you can use that certificate in your future. You can get this type of internship in universities, hospitals and some NGOs.
5. Summer Internship
The word summer is attached to the name of this internship. It simply means that this type of internship takes place only in the summer season. Most of the students who want to do something in the summer vacation participate in summer internship. Summer internship is offered to students part time as well as full time and generally speaking, its timing is either 1 month or from 1 month to 3 months.
How to do internship?
Now we will share with you the method of doing internship or how you can do internship.
1. Take the help of university/college.
If you are doing any course in a reputed college, then you do not need to wander here and there to do internship, because big universities have tie-ups with big companies, which themselves organize internships in that university from time to time. In such a situation, you have to join the internship program organized by your university without wandering here and there.
To join this, you have to give a small interview. If you are found eligible after giving the interview, then you get a chance to do internship through the university itself, which is of 1 year or 2 years. Apart from this, let us tell you that if you study in a small college, then you can contact the training and placement cell of your college and get internship through them.
2. Try yourself.
If you are not getting an opportunity to do internship from the university, then in such a situation you do not need to be disappointed at all, because you can apply for internship in every organization or institute that offers internship. For this, you just have to find out which company or institute offers internship.
It is possible that if you are not able to do this on your own, then let us tell you that for this you can take the help of one of your relatives. After doing a little research, someone will definitely tell you which company offers internship. In such a situation, you can go there and apply.
3. Find online internship
You must have read the point above, where we mentioned about virtual internship which can be done by staying at home. In such a situation, if you are not getting an opportunity to do internship from anywhere, then if you work a little hard, you can do internship from home. Actually, there are many such websites that give you the opportunity to find internships from home, the names of which we have given below. Visit these websites and apply online for virtual internship.
• internshala.com
• in.linkedin.com
• stumagz.com
• glassdoor.co.in
• www.letsintern.com
What are the benefits of doing an internship?
Very few people know that doing an internship also gives them many benefits. So we thought why not tell you the benefits of doing an internship. Below we have mentioned all the benefits that you can get by doing an internship.
1: Work experience
No matter where you go to get a job, if you do not have work experience then you are unlikely to get selected for the job, because the company pays salary to people in exchange for doing the job. Therefore, it wants that only the best people should be selected in its company and for selection in the company, the company mainly gives importance to those who have work experience. In such a situation, if you have done an internship, then you have a higher chance of getting a job.
2: New skill
When you start doing internship, you slowly start realizing what are your shortcomings and what are your strengths. Along with this, during internship, you also get proper suggestions from your seniors, due to which you come to know about your mistakes and by correcting them, you move forward and learn new skills. In this way, you gradually become skilled.
3: Getting money
We had told you in the types of internship that if you do paid internship, then you get the opportunity to do internship, and the money given by the institute in which you do internship is not much but it is definitely enough so that you can meet your pocket expenses through it.
4: Higher chances of getting a job.
Many times it happens that if a student gives a good performance during internship, then after completion of internship, with the reference of the supervisor, he gets selected in the same company in which he did internship. Apart from this, when you complete the internship, you are given a certificate. This certificate is very useful for you when you go for an interview to get a job in a company. By seeing this certificate, there is a strong possibility that the company selects you for the job.
5: Increase in self-confidence
Internship is done so that students can get practical information and if they do not have any skill, then they can learn the skill and if they have any skill, then their skill can be developed even more. When a person gets any skill, then the level of confidence automatically goes up in him, which gives him the courage to stand firm in any situation. Even after getting the internship certificate, he feels from within that yes, I really have something.
Things to keep in mind during internship:-
Below we have shared some things for you which you have to keep in mind while doing internship. These things can be very useful for you. So pay attention to them.
1. Display professional personality.
Remember that now you are not in your college but in an institute where there are professional people around you. Therefore, you will also have to bring professionalism in your personality. There are many students who see internship only as a training. Therefore, they do not keep their behavior right. Doing this is considered absolutely wrong. During internship, you have to keep in mind the following things.
• Do not use abusive language.
• Keep time management right.
• Wear formal dress.
• Treat people with love.
• Do not make too much noise.
• Try to understand properly what is being taught.
2. Work environment
You know that the way of working is different in every company and the environment of the work place is also different. In any company, you meet different types of people. That is why you should have an understanding of how to behave with people. Along with this, you should also know what profits you can get by staying in that company and what you can give to that company.
3. Responsibility
It is said that only that person is successful in life who understands his responsibilities well. By responsibility, we mean that you should know which work you have to do for how long and how you have to work, so that there is no problem in your work. It is also important to understand the responsibilities during the internship because when you go to work somewhere after completing it, the team of interviewers will also ask you questions about what responsibilities you handled during the internship.
4: Remember things?
During internship, you have to go through a new process every day, for which you have to follow many types of guidelines and it is possible that due to so many guidelines, you forget some things. Therefore, instead of forgetting things, you must make notes to remember them and write all the important things in it, so that you do not forget anything. Apart from this, let us tell you that during internship, it is possible that you do not understand something. In such a situation, you must ask questions related to it from your senior and make full satisfaction so that there is no doubt in your mind.
5: Strong contact
When you do internship, there are many other people with you. In such a situation, what you have to do is that you should strengthen your relationship with those people as much as possible. The benefit of this is that when all of you finish your internship, then you go to work in different companies. In such a situation, it is possible that if you are not getting a job in a company, then because of your intern friend, you may get a job through reference somewhere.
6. Money
Most people mainly look for such a company or institute in which they get money in exchange for doing internship. The main goal of such people is to earn money but they do not think that if they do the internship properly, then later it will be very beneficial for their career and they will get more salary than what they have thought.
In this way, you do not have to focus on money while doing internship, rather you have to select such an institute where internship is done well and whose background is good in terms of getting internship done, so that you can get complete work experience and your skills can increase.