Have you ever thought about why there is a space for internships in the application form for a particular job? Or why is there a club or a cell in the college for internships? Are they that important we have to spend our ever-so-important time completing them instead of binging over something? Well, let me tell you something there is this one classmate of mine who had done an internship with an up-and-coming company as a content writer. Everyone asked this person what she had earned. And she answered like this “earned so much that dissipated into thin air after a week of frugal expenditure”. When asked whether it was worth it, she said yes.

To our understanding internship is a part-time job related to what we are studying. Where you more earn less. But why are these given such importance just what we get that changes the aura of our resume? For us to know about its importance we need to clear our misconceptions about it first.

Well first and foremost we should know internships are not part-time jobs: yes we earn some pocket money. But, no. It is more of a place to earn experience. An experience which gives us a unique standpoint among our peers.

The treatment of interns is not as bad as shown in movies and dramas, like bringing coffee and carrying documents. Many companies provide many perks and amenities even to the interns.

Not every good internship has to be a paid one, there are many internships out there that pay less and some don’t but provide the interns with a solid and over-the-top work experience. One of my seniors shared his experience in an internship, which was not paid, there he worked under a person for that person’s PhD research. There he learned how to program in assembly language, which to my confusion never occurred that it was possible in my whole three years of CSE. And he learned it from the ground up.

An internship at a big company is not always useful, but one from a small company is more useful as we come to know the actual work and job responsibilities.

Some say that they can just buy out the experience letter for an internship. Man who are they trying to fool the interviewers are not idiots in finding out who done what.

So internships are not something one does for money they do it for experience, to build an ability to form connections and to learn the work environment under the guidance of professionals. It is not something for the students to add a few lines to their resumes but a bridge that helps them in their job hunting.

Tell us what's the most terrify thing that always come to your mind about internships!