Should Bba Students Do a Compulsory Internship?
Essay by mattchine • April 26, 2017 • Essay • 333 Words (2 Pages) • 1,005 Views
Should BBA students do a compulsory internship?
Nowadays, some of the most important characteristics employers expect from the applicants are experience and languages skills, and both can be improved abroad. As a consequence, most universities encourage their students to do an internship during his degree, but there are still some who do not take advantage of this and decide to study the whole degree in the same country. Would switching internships to compulsory help BBA students?
It is said that “one of those things you have to have before employers even consider looking at your CV is internship experience”. It may be an exaggeration, but there is no getting away from the fact that employers increasingly prefer candidates who have gone to an internship rather than those who have not. There is no doubt that internships benefit students.
Studying a semester abroad is a complete experience for young people, it gives them knowledge, improves their languages, opens their minds, makes them learn different cultures… The fact of being away from home makes them mature way more than those who stay in their countries. And is this maturity what makes them have an edge over the people who have not done an internship. Internship makes the difference, why to delete this difference?
It is important to point out that if we made internships compulsory, it would be more difficult for recent grads to highlight. The general experience would increase and employers would be benefited from this. But, on the other hand, everyone would have a semester abroad in his CV, decreasing the academic value of internships. Internships would be considered as standard experience and this would result as a problem for students.
As can be seen, switching internships to compulsory would improve the preparation of all the university graduates but it would not help them. Instead, it would force them to find new ways to stand out, requiring more effort to end up in the same situation: “experienced” over “less experienced”.
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