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.