A well-rounded resume will stand out among the rest when reviewed by interviewers and potential employers looking for students that break away from the mundane. With an internship, students are usually able to differentiate themselves from their classmates and peers that may not be very attractive to employers. Boring applicants may not be doomed to not get a job, but an exciting applicant that shows leadership and confidence will impress interviewers and move that much closer to being hired.
A college internship can serve many purposes for college students. It can take away the spare time they have in which they may otherwise find themselves in trouble. It may serve as a means for paying for school. It also may help students clear their heads for a few hours as they get away from their books, so that when they return they may find it easier to study and concentrate. It may also look good on a resume, but the most important use of a college internship is often the skills and leadership ability many students learn from their time participating in this valuable program. With many students choosing not to participate, having an internship on their resume often makes these applicants more attractive.
Interviewers or employers may call applicants with an internship on their resume more often than applicants without an internship. Not that an internship instantly qualifies these men and women for the job, but it will show that they took some initiative and sought real world experience when they could have instead sat in their dorm and either studied or watched television and played video games. Showing this drive to better themselves as individuals and potential new employees, students are demonstrating a certain leadership and boldness that many employers want to see in their employees. Interviewers rarely seek students that do not have leadership abilities, but instead usually look for students that have shown their capability as leaders.
A college internship will prove valuable in giving students the opportunity to learn leadership and other skills necessary to compete in today's job market. Starting a career can be a scary and uncertain time in a young man or woman's life. With some real world experience already under their belt, students will be more certain of themselves and their ability to succeed and handle the real world. Students often enter job interviews wide eyed and naive. If they have had the opportunity to learn from a college internship, and possess the confidence often associated with students after going through an internship, they will be able to confidently walk into an interview and speak with an interviewer as a respectable person qualified to handle whatever job they are applying for.
So a college internship will have benefits beyond what many imagine. Often an internship is seen as an empty resume builder. Some see students going through an internship simply as a means of adding a few more lines to their resume, so that it does not come up too short of the end of the page. In reality, students are usually able to take away a great deal from an internship, provided that they find the right one.
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