Various Types of Internships

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A high school internship can be a very valuable experience that helps you explore career options and that cn help you get accepted into college.

If you are seeking to find an internship there are numerous resources available. Each week I feature an Internship Pick of the Week on my About.com site that offers an overview of current internships available.

If you've participated in community service or a volunteer experience, we'd like to hear your story.

Co-operative education gives students the best of all worlds, learning in the classroom and applying that knowledge to the real world.

An internship is a pre-professional experience that provides an opportunity to gain relevant knowledge and skills prior to starting out in a particular career field.

Internships provide real world experience to those looking to explore or gain the relevant knowledge and skills required to enter into a particular career field. Internships are relatively short term in nature with the primary focus on getting some on the job training and taking what’s learned in the classroom and applying it to the real world. Interns generally have a supervisor who assigned…

Paid internships offer students a way to gain relevant knowledge and skills required to succeed in a specific career field while making some money through an hourly wage, salary, or stipend over the course of the internship.

Internship credit provides students with academic credit to be included on their college transcript. Usually a faculty sponsor will work alongside a site supervisor to evaluage the student's overall progress over the course of the internship.

Non profit internships involve working for organizations such as: charities, universities, government agencies, religious organizations, and some hospitals and are usually unpaid.

Summer internships offer students an opportunity to get some concrete work experience and be able to try out what it's actually like working in a particular career field. Many summer internships are paid but a number of summer internships are also available in the world of non profits.

Service learning provides students an opportunity to meet specific learning objectives through doing some form of community service work. The objective of the experience is that the recipient and the provider of the service both mutually gain from the experience.

Externships (job shadowing) usually are very short term experiences spent with someone currently working on one's career field of interest. An externship can last anywhere's from one day to several weeks. It is similar to an internship but with minimal commitment.

The key to finding a good internship and/or jobin technology is to make yourself a competitive candidate by getting some experience in the field.

Paid internships offer emloyers an opportunity to get th most talented, knowledgeable, and skilled interns who may turn into future full-time employees.

Hiring new employees who have completed some form of experiential education is a key factor for many organizations today. These experiential experiences can go by a number of names; including, internships, co-ops, practicums, service learning, externships, apprenticeships, fellowships, as well as volunteer opportunities.

Internships may be paid or unpaid, for-credit or not-for-credit, and are available in a wide variety of fields from both the profit and non profit sectors of the job market.

Internshi credit can provide experiences that are rewarding and geared specifically toward academic coursework and meeting major requirements.

Students not in need of academic credit can do internships where they do not need to complete paperwork or meet academic guidelines set by their college.

Internships for credit give students an opportunity to combines their college coursework with gaining relevant work experience by meeting certain academic criteria usually developed by faculty and in collaboration with the onsite supervisor.

Many employers will accept transcript notations or a letter from the college stating that the college recognizes the value of the internship and its relation to the student’s academic success. Transcript notations may be offered by colleges in addition to offering credit for summer internships.

Virtual internships provide a flexible way of gaining relevant work experience in today's job market.

All of the advances in technology over the past decade have made it increasingly easy for people to work from wherever they are.

There are as many internship opportunities as there are careers so the key to finding a good internship requires students to do a thorough self-assessment to understand the type of internship they want.