What are you expecting to gain from this internship?

Answer 1

You get to experience, first-hand, the kind of work that goes on in a particular field. It's a great opportunity to figure out your interests or further push you in a direction in helping you think about career choices and future plans.

Answer:

Internships are touted as a way of:

• getting experience
• building a contact list
• proving that you are worth hiring

More often they are a way of:

• being taken advantage of
• saving companies the cost of hiring staff and paying benefits (some actually charge for internships)
• having an excuse for not finding a real job
• living off your savings or your parents savings or building a larger debt

Answer 2

experience relevant to your career choice. Before getting into the workforce, employers like to see candidates who have an idea on how to apply their knowledge learned in a classroom to real world environments. For example, if I want to develop a new drug, I'd rather hire someone with an understanding how a laboratory actually works rather than someone who just did well on midterm and final exams. Of if I'm a producer at MTV, I'd like to hire someone who has been exposed to the entertainment industry rather than someone who just watched the Real World seasons 3-11. Same holds true for any industry. Think about driving a car. School is like reading a book about driving a car. Internships are like driving with an instructor. A job is driving on your own. Just make sure that you learn as much as possible. Don't let yourself sit around and take up space. The more you learn at an internship, the better you will be than the next candidate interviewing for a job.

Answer 3

I'm expecting to learn how the system works and what the reponsibilities are of the various individuals who participate in it.