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Working as an intern is a great opportunity to gain experience of the job, to improve your abilities, to make you more mature, to understand how the working live is and to be responsible. In this post we want to give you the 6 important advantages to work as an intern at any place of work.
Gain work experience
This is the most important advantage, because as you were studying for 3, 4, 5 or at least 6 years, depending on your career, you would like to work as you were studying for a long time, of course is totally understandable. You have the concepts of the “position of the job” and I am sure you had have very good marks and you feel more than comfortable to work on what you have studied.
But, it is not as easy as you think. You have to learn how to work in your area, as a team or individual, to organise yourself, to deal with problems and to work under the pressure. Working as an intern is a good opportunity to gain experience in your job and learn all the tasks that you have to do from the beginning and improve yourself step by step.
Develop new skills and refine others
Every person is unique in this world, we are humans, we make mistakes, and we are not perfect. Every person has different skills with which to impress when you are going to do an interview or when you are already in the job and you are going to do a task. But everything could improve even if you think that you have good skills, I am pretty sure you can improve a bit more. Working as an intern ensures your skills will improve, you will learn how to improve some skills that you never thought about, and also you will have more confidence of yourself, which is important not just for the job, but also is important for other situations in your life such as family, relationship, friends, health…
Gain confidence in your abilities
As we said before, gaining confidence is important for your whole life. When you feel more confident in yourself you are able to do whatever you want. This confidence will encourage you to take on tasks or responsibilities that you never thought.
Make friends, contact, family
Some people have the point of view of work being just about sitting in a chair in front of the computer and work, work, work until you finish. Of course not! You have to delete this image of the job from your brain. In all jobs, there are people like you who are starting and people who have been there for a long time. We are humans, we need breaks, breath, some jokes, and funny moments. You will meet new people, who you are going to be with every day for more or less 8 hours. It is normal if you create a link, you can meet good contacts which after that will be useful for your future. You can meet people who are going to become part of your family.
Earn money
Not all the internships are unpaid, some of them are paid. Part of the advantage of being an intern is the possibility to earn money while learning.
Possibility to continue working
Being an intern doesn’t necessarily mean working for a while and then leaving. If you like the job, if you like what you are doing, if you are happy with your colleagues, you always have the opportunity to continue working and change the position. Taking more responsibilities, learning new things and meeting new people even be the boss of someone.
All the advantages are connected and not just for the job, also for the situations of your life. Working as an intern makes you more mature, and shows you how real life is.
So now, if you want to find a job and you find something in your area as an intern, don’t hesitate to take it. Probably it will be your best opportunity for now and for the future!
