The first important thing for me as a student to have an internship is to have and the opportunity for a possible full-time employment in the further. “Not only does participation in an internship make the student a more attractive candidate,” says NACE Executive Director Marilyn Macke, “but it can also be an avenue to a job.” (Hansen) The internship will also be a verification to matching our job expectation with the reality. According to Jonathan, “Internships give students the opportunity to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields they are considering for career paths; and give employers the opportunity to guide and evaluate talent.” (Jonathan) The meaningful internship is also a very important experience to learn how to work with the project in reality. In school, everything is prepared for students, a student just needs to follow the instruction to finish them. In reality, everything is a mess, people need to prepare everything by themselves and do a lot of research in order to complete a task.
One of the more significant advantages to providing internships is the opportunity to select and develop
student future talent. Students have the opportunity to evaluate and screen potential employees prior to making a full‐time position offer, which leads to financial savings. Employers have reported converting more than half of eligible interns into full‐time hires. If hired in a permanent position, previous interns assimilate faster to their new roles and have shorter learning curves than external hires.
A typical internship will help students to develop their professional skills with the relevant, and related background in the field during the internship. In order to get an internship, students can use LinkedIn to build their professional profile. In LinkedIn, students can show their education, work experience, class project, skills, volunteering experience, honors, awards, and even recommendation from co-workers or professors. It is a great tool for students to build up their personal profile in order to stand out from hundreds of competitors. It is also a great tool for recruiters to looking for talents in LinkedIn with all the detail information they want. Students can even connect their alumni in different companies through LinkedIn, so they might have a high chance of getting internal refer from those alumni.
Work Cited:
Hansen, K. (n.d.). College Students: You Simply Must Do an Internship (Better Yet: Multiple Internships)! Retrieved March 20, 2016, from https://www.quintcareers.com/internship-importance/
Smith, J. (2014, January 8). Internship Wish List: The 12 Things Students Value Mos. Retrieved March 20, 2016, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2014/01/08/internship-wish-list-the-12-things-students-value-most/#6493259c2567
kun Su 
I totally agree with you that an internship is highly recommended for students. It helps people prepare for the competitive industrial workplace. Not to mention all the skill and knowledge one can get from his internship, the pre-experience of working among people is valuable and precious. On the other hand, it is also a great idea for a business to have an internship program. Even though you may need invest money to build the program, but you can select and develop potential worker for your business which is much efficient than hiring people and fire them after three months.
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