Why college students should take an internship

Published: Jan-18-12

Most large companies have internship opportunities and every college student should embrace the chance to obtain real working experience prior to graduating. Internships are quite beneficial for both parties:

For companies this is a great way to teach interns how to complete assignments and daily tasks that are specific to a job. Internships also allow companies to evaluate prospective future full-time employees, and to mentor and grow these individuals early on.

For students, internships provide a number of benefits, including:

experiencing what goes on in their career field of interest prior to graduating, and this way, possibly influence their class and coursework decisions to better suit their future career goals.
great networking opportunities since interns work hand-in-hand with full-time working professionals.
getting their foot in the door early and easing the pressure of the after graduation job hunt.

At many companies there are full-time job opportunities after the internship has finished. As long as you complete your tasks and can demonstrate that you would make a good employee for the company, this is a great way for a potential employer to see how you behave, work, and interact with teams. Treat an internship as a long interview and perform your best. There is a lot of competition in the working world and internships only set you apart that much more.

The best way to learn about internships is to go to your campus career center, they usually have internship postings listed on their job boards. If you want to be even more proactive, companies usually actively recruit interns during the school year, so stay up to date on the latest career fairs, information sessions or any other company marketing events.

If you are interested in learning more about Accenture internship opportunities, please check out the internship and student programs section of our careers website. In addition, you can view our available internship opportunities on careers.accenture.com/jobs, search by keyword ‘intern’.

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Mar-20-12

Hi Sunita- we are open to hiring MBA students for the internship program as long as your graduation date is one year from when the internship ends. The reason for this is because we like to extend full time offers at the end of the summer, and we would like you to start after graduating, so we preference that you graduating within the year. Thanks!

Jan-30-12

Thanks for asking and great question. We do recruit a lot at the new graduate level, because we like to see internal growth within Accenture, but that doesn’t mean if you have been out of school for 2-3 years that you couldn’t be considered for one of our entry level roles. The only factor is if you have had real consulting experience after graduating, then you might be considered at the experienced hire level. I hope this helps.

Jan-20-12

Hi Jennifer, I notice a lot of the blog posts here focus on new graduate hires. Are people who have worked in industry for 2 to 3 years still eligible for entry level consulting or analyst jobs at accenture? Such as systems consulting analysts? Thanks!