Internship and its types

An internship is a specialized on-the-job training for professional careers. Like apprenticeship is for vocational and trade jobs similarly internship is for professional and white–collar careers. Usually internship is temporary and is of short-term, it may be part-time or may be full time. The key focus of this on-the-job training is to apply theoretical knowledge in the real world. Commonly, an internship consists of exchange of services between organization and intern, for the experience. Interns are usually university or college students, they can also be school students and post graduates. Internship usually involves a supervisor to give training and to supervise. If you wish to have a taste in the professional life, you may enroll for the internship training. Internship may be non-profitable or paid, and are available in wide variety of fields of job market like sales, manufacturing, engineering, medicine, law, technology etc. Many organizations offer various monetary rewards like stipend, bonus or salary.  Some organizations offer permanent employment to the interns in the same organization, this benefit both the organization and student, student gets the job and organization gets the already trained candidate for the job.  Although, getting the employment after the completion of internship is not guaranteed.

Major Types of Internship:

Internships are majorly divided into three groups – Research Internship, Work Experience Internship and the new growing one is Virtual Internship. 

1)Research Internship – Research internship is majorly done by students in final years. The aim of this internship is to improve certain areas of the company. In this, student takes the work to research on an organization. In this internship, Management may provide the topics (which organization thinks they need to improve) to the student or intern. Sometimes student can also choose the topic related to the organization. In the end, intern will have to present the result of the research internship to the management of the same organization.

2)Work Experience – In this internship, intern is expected to apply all the knowledge he or she has learned in the school or college. Interns will be converting their theoretical knowledge into practical work and while doing so they are gaining work experience. This work experience helps them in their further studies.   

3)Virtual Internship – This type of internship is growing rapidly as this helps the intern to do the internship remotely. Interns can learn from their own location. Usually the virtual internship is conducted by means of virtual suggests like Phone, Skype and Computer. There are various websites and institutes which provides virtual internship through internet.