An internship can help you gain new skills and industry knowledge, build contacts and networks. Whether you are just getting started in your career or taking the next step, here are just some of the many personal and professional benefits of completing an industry internship experience.
Undertaking an internship can help you build invaluable industry experience, develop your professional skills, and create contacts and networks within a particular organisation or sector. This can often help with finding employment after graduating.
Many employers that we work with end up hiring interns upon graduation, or provide references, connections and guidance to help them with their career development.
Employers are looking for graduates with a global perspective. An overseas internship offers professional work experience and adventure rolled into one. You will come home with a deeper understanding of different workplace cultures, expanded networks, enhanced communication skills and a boosted CV, all leading to that next career step.
Host organisations value the skills and new thinking that Monash University interns bring to the workplace. Our students have made a big impact across many different organisations by providing operational support, working on key projects, complex problem solving and identifying new business opportunities.
Completing an internship can also help you with your studies. Applying the knowledge you're gaining into a professional context can give greater depth to your understanding of your discipline area, and consolidate your learning through reporting and reflecting on your experience.
If you complete an internship unit, this will be recorded on your academic transcript and you will obtain credit towards completion of your course.
If you complete a unit over the summer or winter breaks, you can reduce your course load during semester, allowing you to focus more on your other units.