Internships provide short-term professional experience, similar to regular employee work, helping you understand graduate work and build industry contacts.

Summer Internships:

• Duration: 2–12 weeks
• Typically paid; unpaid opportunities should be no longer than 4 weeks

Insight Days/Weeks

• Offer a glimpse into an organization's work and culture
• Available in the first year of a three-year degree or second year of a four-year degree
• Can fast track students to summer internships or graduate programs

Finding Opportunities:

• Large recruiters target pre-final year students; smaller businesses may have more flexible requirements.
• Large companies start advertising in October for the following summer.
• Smaller employers may advertise up until summer.

Check the Career Services Connect system for advertised internships and company websites for application details and deadlines.

Further Reading - GradIreland's section on Work Experience and Internships