Internships

An internship is an extension of the classroom into the workplace. It is designed to give juniors and seniors the opportunity to test what they have learned in the classroom and to continue to learn in the workplace. An internship is not a regular job but an educational situation. Indeed, the main responsibility of an intern is to learn rather than to produce.

In some instances, students will work in one area or department within an organization; in others, they will spend time in a number of areas. An advertising intern, for example, might spend several weeks each with an account executive, a media buyer, a copy-writer, and a creative person; a newspaper intern might be assigned to the metro desk, then to the sports desk, then to the copy desk.

Whatever the arrangement, the internship supervisor should be a teacher to the intern rather than a boss and should look on the intern not as an employee who is expected to turn out polished work with little or no supervision but as a student who is not yet fully prepared. He or she will guide, not direct, the intern, and will be someone to whom the intern can turn for advice, criticism, and the like, as the student would a teacher.

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