10 Reasons To Do an Internship
- Add to your knowledge and skills related to your discipline and/or anticipated career field.
- Enhance your academic study by trying out in a “real world” context what you have learned in the classroom.
- “Try on” a career without making a long-term commitment.
- Establish contacts in a field where you may be job hunting after graduation.
- Practice professional behavior and learn how organizations function.
- Gain the work-related experience that employers value and strengthen your candidacy for after-graduation jobs.
- Achieve personal growth and build confidence as you take on new challenges.
- Experience integrating faith in the workplace.
- Practice employment interviewing skills and going through the hiring process.
- Experience being an independent learner.