COMMERCIAL INTERNSHIP :
A commercial internship generally refers to an internship with
any corporate house or a business concern. An internship helps you attain real
world business experience while you are completing your studies. It is a tool
to see how well you can apply your knowledge and skills in real time business
situations and whether or not you are cut out for such a career.
The sole purpose of your internship is to gain experience and in
today's world employers rank work experience higher than qualification.
But there is more to it, a commercial internship with any leading business
concern or corporate house makes you work under the guidance of professionals.
You get to see how professionals make decisions, what motivates them and how
you can emulate them. An internship from the outset might seem an intimidating
task but it gives you the opportunity to prove yourself.
A commercial
internship will give you the opportunity to get out of the class room
atmosphere, discover your abilities, gain confidence and build your knowledge
about the profession. Internships help you develop skills which help in the
long run like interpersonal skills, communication skills and networking.
One of the major benefits is the network of friends and
colleagues you build which helps immensely in the future in gaining work
opportunity or in doing business with them. Doing a commercial internship will
teach you how to shoulder responsibilities, meet deadlines and be efficient.
After doing an internship with a business concern you will see growth right
away in your personality, maturity and confidence as well.
SOCIAL INTERNSHIP
A social
internship is an internship with a social activist, a NGO or a policy
research organization where in you intern to work for their goals and the
issues they work for. A social intern works like a regular employee and gets to
do real work with the organization like field work, collecting information etc.
Social internships are generally not paid, but the organization provides you
with a certificate as recognition of your work.
A social internship is best suited for people who are doing
their masters or bachelors in Social work or wish to be social entrepreneurs
but is also good for students and people who wish to work for different issues
and the society as a whole. Social internships provide a magnificent opportunity
to work for the issues you relate to, feel for and wish to work for.
A social internship can help you choose the issue you want to
resolve the most and understand the nuances of that particular issue and devise
your own methods to find the solution. A social intern gets to work with people
who have the knowledge about issues and are working to solve the problems of
the society. It helps the intern to see and understand the world from a
different perspective and be sensitive towards life. It teaches you soft skills
like communication skills, interpersonal skills etc.
Moreover it can shape your view and purpose of life, can help
you find your goals and helps immensely in your personality development. If you
want to work for the society but don’t know where and how to start! Take up a
social internship and discover the answer on your own.
VOCATIONAL INTERNSHIP
A Vocation is an occupation to which a person is specially
drawn or for which he or she is suited, trained, or qualified. Vocational
internships are a part of Vocational Education which is an education that
prepares people for specific trades, crafts and careers at various levels.
To choose a specific vocation is very motivating because from
the beginning you know what you want to become in life. Besides the economic
benefits like plethora of employment opportunities, high earnings, job
security, certain types of vocation help you serve the needs of the society, it
gives you the option to become an entrepreneur and there is high level of
satisfaction with your work. A vocational internship helps you work in the
field you have chosen under the mentorship of experts in that field.
The benefits of vocational
internships are many. An internship with an expert in the field you have
chosen can help you learn the tricks of the trade which might not be taught in
classrooms. You get to work with the tools and apply the theories you have
learned to actual effect. By seeing the professional you work you get to learn
their body language, how they deal with crisis and might even find someone who
can serve as your role model in the field. Internships are a fabulous way to
judge yourself and see if you are the one for the field or not.
Vocational internships also come with a stipend which is more of
an appreciation of your efforts as an intern and trainee. If you want to test
yourself then go for an internship to get a taste of the real world and know
the areas in which you might require improvement.
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