No one could ever take away or buy your knowledge; this is why some things in life are solely based on experience rather than a big paycheck. Interning is an extremely good idea for any student to look into experiencing, whether or not it pays or it does not.
Sometimes we find that there is no price to be paid for knowledge and experience, which is why interning is always a good idea. A college degree will give you a foundation for a job but how would you know how to successfully apply what you have learned in the classroom in a real-life incident in your job without practicing it? An internship not only provides the opportunity for practical application of knowledge, but also allows you to develop self-awareness of your strengths, weaknesses, maturity, professionalism, values and ethics.
An internship will be able to tie your studies on paper in with real-world experience, where like in a normal classroom environment, you will be guided by a professional in the field. This would also be a good way to simply see if the job that you've been dreaming of for so long is really what you want to do with your life.
According to the CSULB main website, the Career Development Center serves as a resource for students seeking general internship information and advising, and maintains an updated listing of internships that have been approved for academic credit available through the Career Center are open to all CSULB students and help to gain hands-on experience and opportunity to work in a specific field or employer of your interest.
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An internship will be able to tie your studies on paper in with real-world experience, where like in a normal classroom environment, you will be guided by a professional in the field. This would also be a good way to simply see if the job that you've been dreaming of for so long is really what you want to do with your life.
According to the CSULB main website, the Career Development Center serves as a resource for students seeking general internship information and advising, and maintains an updated listing of internships that have been approved for academic credit available through the Career Center are open to all CSULB students and help to gain hands-on experience and opportunity to work in a specific field or employer of your interest.
The internships streamed through the Career Development Center require all participating internship course for academic credit. This is a bonus because not all internships will generally benefit your academic grade while you learn, and not all schools offer centers such as these. By making it a requirement for some classes, this will serve as an incentive to get some real work done. Truthfully, it is the smartest move to make! Like I mentioned before, do not get discourage if the internship of your choice does not pay your by the hour, because technically it will pay off in the end, one way or another.
These programs vary from semester to semester, so it's good to stay on top of the new things that are happening in the interning world at CSULB. For the Journalism students like ourseslves, this Spring semester prof. Karadjov was the go-to man for internship information. "I generally set students up with the internship of their choice", says Karadjov, "and during their time of interning there are a few mandatory meetings along with check-ins, done by myself, to their supervisors to make sure they are doing actual beneficial work rather than going on coffee runs."
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