The Importance Of Internship Program

One month ago, I sent off an application to the National Center for Cancer Research with high hopes of getting a job but with little confidence that I would get a callback. Within a few days, I received an email asking for an interview. After a phone interview and in person interview, I immediately accepted the job clearly very thrilled and excited. I started to imagine all the ways in which I could indirectly give people suffering from cancer hope. It was this vision that stuck with me through my first day and first week on the job. However, slowly that vision started to fade and get put into the background as I started to realize minor flaws in an organization which I feel could overall create a big setback. Flaws in the payroll process and the new employee training threatened to put this organization on a fast track backward and away from its great mission. To put them back on track, I came up with simple and applicable solutions that help fix the problem. With the update of their manual payroll collection method to a more advance technological method and the addition of new employee training manual/ …show more content…
For instance, having a specific, detailed, and well-constructed internship program will ensure that the intern is not just occupied with typical office duties, but learning and gaining real world experiences. They provide personal experiences as to how a well-designed internship program can benefit the company’s performance and growth over all. For them, investing in interns means that they do not have to spend as much money investing in a full-time employee. With proper training, an intern could essentially do the job of an entry level employee but at half the cost. This will not only maximize the growth experience for the intern, but can also be cost saving for the