Internships are a form of professional learning experience that integrates practical knowledge and learned classroom skills, allowing students to build and develop career paths, gain practical work experience, build their resume, and grow professional connections in their field. EC-Council University students can choose to pick a Capstone project or an internship program in their Capstone course. The Internship can serve as an alternative to a Capstone project.
Learn valuable new skills outside a traditional classroom. While exploring your career interests, you can simultaneously acquire knowledge of the field, industry, and employer.
Build your soft, non-technical skills as well as your hard, technical skills. Employers seek new job candidates who mix soft skills, such as communication and leadership, with hard skills associated with the specific skill set required in a job.
Internship experience can give you an advantage when you apply for jobs upon graduation by adding work experience to your credentials.
Broaden your chances of landing a job and jump-starting your career by building your resume.
Broaden your chances of landing a job and jump-starting your career by building your resume.
Grow your connections and professional network in the right industry by meeting professional role models and potential mentors who can provide guidance, feedback, and support.
The ECCU team will assist in matching students based on their learning experience, skills, and academic specializations. ECCU will help provide students with ongoing support in all aspects of the internship experience. All internship jobs are pre-qualified to meet ECCU standards and guidelines established by the Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, and adherence to ECCU International Internship Policies.
The success of an internship depends on the partnership between representatives of the organization, the university, and the student. These three parties need to agree on the conditions of the internship, the responsibilities of each party, and the reporting requirements. Part of the reporting requirements for interns are:
The learning contract allows the intern to document how, when, how often, with whom, etc., the learning goals are accomplished. The learning contract is a tool to formalize the internship. It includes information such as the internship responsibilities (job description), goals and objectives, and how objectives will be met and assessed.
Identified learning goals allow students to assess their progress and enable the internship mentor/supervisor to evaluate the students. The mentor/supervisor, the intern, and the academic dean will sign the learning contract. Each partner will clearly understand the expectations of the experience and what the final results should be.
This monitoring mode encourages reflection about the learning experience and invites the intern to reflect on the experience critically and to evaluate each learning goal outlined in the internship objectives. This method encourages interns to assess their knowledge more analytically, especially about the context of other life experiences, their curriculum, and their major field of study.
The mentor/supervisor, the intern, and the academic dean will closely monitor the progress of the internship through written reports of job tasks learned, site visits, phone calls, and evaluations.
This will be completed by both the intern and mentor/supervisor to identify key areas of success.
Identify areas for improvement for the intern and the internship site. Highlight personal strengths and prescribe solutions for the intern’s professional development.
Students can seek internship opportunities in their local area through ECCU’s networking activities, corporate partners, and student initiatives. Various online job placement sites serve the internship market.
