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ANOTHER relative of mine (yes I have lots of them!) told me quite proudly that he is going to graduate in the Spring. I asked him what type of work experience he had in business management so he could get a job at graduation. Maybe an internship or a part time job in an office on days he is not in class or during school breaks. (He is getting a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management.)
He told me he did not have time for that and his parents told him that standing at a copy machine for 9 weeks sorting documents as free labor for some company and calling it an internship was not worth his time. He spent most of his effort on his classes and getting good grades. He expects to get hired by some big company as a management trainee upon graduation.
For the students own good, do you think business programs in colleges should require an internship or something similar for someone to graduate?
It should be an option. Working students may not be able to do an internship. it would be nice if they got credit for their job. what your relatives parent failed to realize is that even standing by the copier puts the student in contact with potential employers; networking potential which is something not taught in classes. Never underestimate the value of making connections and networking.
ANOTHER relative of mine (yes I have lots of them!) told me quite proudly that he is going to graduate in the Spring. I asked him what type of work experience he had in business management so he could get a job at graduation. Maybe an internship or a part time job in an office on days he is not in class or during school breaks. (He is getting a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management.)
He told me he did not have time for that and his parents told him that standing at a copy machine for 9 weeks sorting documents as free labor for some company and calling it an internship was not worth his time. He spent most of his effort on his classes and getting good grades. He expects to get hired by some big company as a management trainee upon graduation.
For the students own good, do you think business programs in colleges should require an internship or something similar for someone to graduate?
I can agree that making copies isn't terribly valuable as work experience. And I think the whole idea of demanding that students work for free is abusive and unconscionable; if it's worth having someone do, it's worth paying that someone for having done it.
But real internships--ones where students actually learn something about business and the industry that the company is in--should be offered and encouraged as much as possible in BBA programs. It could be structured like engineering co-op programs, or by business entities run as part of the unversity; my undergrad school had finance students handle part of the university endowment fund as an internship in institutional investing.
ANOTHER relative of mine (yes I have lots of them!) told me quite proudly that he is going to graduate in the Spring. I asked him what type of work experience he had in business management so he could get a job at graduation. Maybe an internship or a part time job in an office on days he is not in class or during school breaks. (He is getting a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management.)
He told me he did not have time for that and his parents told him that standing at a copy machine for 9 weeks sorting documents as free labor for some company and calling it an internship was not worth his time. He spent most of his effort on his classes and getting good grades. He expects to get hired by some big company as a management trainee upon graduation.
For the students own good, do you think business programs in colleges should require an internship or something similar for someone to graduate?
So did he go to school all summer long too?
I cannot imagine what his resume would look like if all he ever did for the first 21 years of his life was go to school.
Most college students that I know look for summer internships. My sophomore son has applied to a half dozen this fall. Teachers have done unpaid internships forever, they call it student teaching... It would be good if they were paid, but any work experience, even menial stuff, will teach you something.
There are not enough internships for the people who want them. It is difficult to get an internship, I applied for a few and never got one, yet I was hired not even a month after graduation (after grad school). There are far more students wanting internships than internships available, especially since the cutbacks due to the economy.
My university gave credit for internships (up to 6 max I think with approval).
I do not see the point of making it required for a business student.
There are not enough internships for the people who want them. It is difficult to get an internship, I applied for a few and never got one, yet I was hired not even a month after graduation (after grad school). There are far more students wanting internships than internships available, especially since the cutbacks due to the economy.
My university gave credit for internships (up to 6 max I think with approval).
I do not see the point of making it required for a business student.
This is a good point. Unless the school actually has the connections to facilitate the placements, it doesn't seem fair to make it a requirement. Besides not every school is in an area in which there are a ton of businesses that could give out internships.
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