A student can learn a great deal from an internship. Many students learn valuable life lessons and have excellent experiences that will benefit them as they hit the job market and later progress through the rest of their careers. Still others use the experience as a means of earning the money necessary to pay for school and ultimately earn their degree.
The most important thing for many students working in a college internship is being able to put the experience on a resume to impress those sifting through stacks of resumes. While it may draw attention to the applicant, it is not a sure way to get hired. Students should make sure that the internship they are participating in offers them the opportunity to truly learn new skills and have be able to have something of substance to speak of when it is all said and done. Too often do students go through an internship purely for the chance to write it on their resume, even if the whole experience was truly worthless in terms of developing as individuals.
Employers do not want to see one-dimensional students they do not see contributing much to their companies. A college internship may be a waste of time if the company uses their interns to get coffee, file and input data into a computer. The student can learn these skills anywhere, so even if they are doing this at NASA, they probably will not impress many employers with stories of filing space documents. When they can tell stories of substance in which they really learn something, then they will get the interviewer's attention. Leadership is a big deal to many employers; so exhibiting leadership can set the student apart from their peers.
Students often attempt to twist an experience in which they were team leader of a three-person study group or research group into a story of heroic leadership. Interviewers often see right through this and notice that the student is stretching a not-so-exciting story into something much more than it actually was. When students have something interesting to talk about in which they truly learned leadership skills and were able to practice them in a real world setting, interviewers will be impressed. Often the best way to do this is through a college internship. There are internships out there that truly benefit their interns and allow them to learn a great deal from the job and those around them.
Students should snatch these internships up the moment they hear about them, as they will not get a much better chance to develop these important skills. A college internship may teach students how to manage finances, how to become a better salesperson or how to manage a team. Learning these skills can really help the student develop as an individual. Exposing themselves to new people and ideas and situations gives students a broader scope of things and allows them to grow as people. Employers tend to prefer well-rounded students to those one-dimensional students who seem to have no real personality or layers to them.
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