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Internships

What to do: An internship is a more in-depth school-to-career experience in which a student spends an extended period of time at your company completing:

  • A planned series of activities or learning objectives, or
  • A project designed to provide a broad understanding of your business or industry.

By integrating classroom learning with real-life workplace experiences, an internship helps a student simultaneously develop academic and vocational skills.

Pay: If a student is doing work that you would typically pay an employee to do, you must then pay the student. For college or other postsecondary interns, class credit may also be offered.

Duration: Usually 3-18 weeks; hours variable.

Grade level: Grades 11-12 (high school junior and senior years)

Benefits of Internships

Students will:

  • Develop transferable academic, technical and employability skills.
  • Apply basic skills and knowledge to your real-world work setting.
  • Focus their career interests by experiencing a job and career in your company, in depth.
  • Understand the culture of your workplace.
  • Begin to assume real responsibilities in an adult work setting.

You will:

  • Cultivate a potential addition to your workforce.
  • Develop the teaching and mentoring abilities of your employees.

Keys for Employers:

  • Help design a student project or planned set of workplace activities.
  • Help write and co-sign a learning agreement.
  • Teach, supervise and encourage your intern.
  • Integrate the student into your workplace and expose him or her to as many aspects of your business as possible.
  • Evaluate your intern’s academic, technical and employability skills (required for students in Connecticut Career Certificate program).

Helpful Publications:

The Employer's Guide to Successful Student Internships in Information Technology (pdf file)

The Employer's Guide to Successful Student Internships in Manufacturing (pdf file)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

The Employer's Guide to Successful Student Internships in Information Technology (pdf file)

The Employer's Guide to Successful Student Internships in Manufacturing (pdf file)