ASSIGNMENT
THE INTERNSHIP LEARNING PROPOSAL
AND
EMPLOYER PROFILE
(Please note that texts that are bold must be put as titles in your paper, and after writing
title, you should write your answers to the related topics).
A)INTERNSHIP LEARNING PROPOSAL
What do we expect? An internship learning proposal is like a map of your
internship. Your Learning Proposal will be helpful in identifying specific opportunities,
designing your own internship, and writing your final report. It can also serve as the
basis for mutual understanding and expectations between you and your internship
sponsor.
Once your internship is completed, you can reflect upon your Learning Proposal and
assess whether or not your goals were accomplished and if expectations were met.
Your internship learning proposal should be 2 pages consisting of the following parts:
1) YOUR MISSION and LEARNING GOALS:
Even before you start to search for internship opportunities, you should have asked
yourself the question: what is your mission? What do you hope to gain from your
internship experience?
Articulating what you want to learn from an internship requires some thought. It's a
good idea to:
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Begin with a general idea of what you want to learn, then,
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refine and develop this idea through discussions with your internship
supervisor and faculty sponsor, then
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write down the results of this process as a number of discrete learning goals.
Questions that might help you get started on the process of identifying learning goals
are "Why do I want this internship?" "What do I want to learn from it?" More specific
questions that might help you identify your learning goals are:
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Do I want to explore a broad career area, such as work in a radio station or
an attorney's office? Or do I want to learn something more specific? What?
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Do I want to develop new knowledge for myself, such as how to use a new
computer program, or how a marketing plan is created?
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Am I keen to enhance my skills, such as teamwork or advertising layout, or
proficiency with a computer program I've used a few times?
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Do I want to see what it is like to work in a specific sort of setting, such as a
multi-national corporation, or a suburban branch office?
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Do I want the opportunity to see how what I've learned in class is used in the
world of work?
Your learning goals could be one or any combination of the above, or something
different. When you have answers to some of these questions, please write down
your learning goals.
2) ACTIVITIES, TASKS AND PROJECTS
After you have identified your learning goals, the next step is to work out how these
can be reached at the internship site. This involves identifying the sorts of
experiences and tasks that are available at the internship site, and seeing how they
connect with your goals, through discussions with your site supervisor. The following
suggestions should help you identify how you will meet your goals:
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Discuss with the site supervisor what you hope to learn, and find out what
tasks and projects you will have during the internship.
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Find out how you will be expected to learn - will you work beside staff
members, or shadow a worker, or be responsible for a specific project?
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Keep asking about the tasks and daily activities so that both you and your site
supervisor have a shared understanding of what is to be done, and how, and
include these activities in your learning proposal.
B) EMPLOYER PROFILE
What do we expect? Prepare, 2 pages of information consisting of the following
information. (You should write it with your own sentences, we do not need any
information from the establishment brochures or webpage)
- Company Profile: A Company Profile is an important facet in a company's
marketing plans and having a well written profile helps in more than one way. The
important thing to be kept in mind here is that you should be precise while including
all the details about the company. The basics, that is the name and address along
with the general information about the company should come first followed by the
main services or products that the company offers. Here it would be a good idea to
include the mission and philosophy of the company.
- Description of the Department: Give brief information about the department
that you are working for. The main responsibility of the department in the
organization, the number of employees in the section, what they do, and who are the
"customers" and "suppliers" of the section.