Still need some guidance on your internship search? Not sure where you’d best fit in as an intern?
Internships.com offers a internship predictor that can help you identify some of your strengths and preferences as you continue your search!
Here are some sample results from the internship predictor taken by a random student (okay, they’re my results). Find out your own results by taking the predictor at: http://www.internships.com/predictor
You value an internship in an organization that serves others through knowledge. You need leaders who appreciate your desire to help others to become more rational.
Your interests indicate:
- Human resources
- Recreational services
- Education
- Religion
- Health services
- Childcare
- Elderly care
- Mental health
- You like to express feelings and emotions that directly impact people in a positive way.
- You are drawn to opportunities to teach, cure, help, counsel, train, minister or support people.
- You are agreeable, patient and outgoing with highly developed social skills.
You gravitate to environments that are cooperative and friendly. You want to motivate others and value consensus building and open communication and work hard to create cultures that are supportive and comfortable for all associates.
You may also find:
- You are artistic, imaginative, and innovative.
- You like to use your creativity to express feelings and emotions.
- You are drawn to the arts, performance, writing and fields that appreciate unusual ideas and aesthetic styles.
You gravitate to internships that appreciate free-spirited and original thinkers. You are unconventional and intense, preferring to create a new path than follow traditional norms. You prefer creative work that allows a lot of independence and opportunity to change things.
The best internship experience for you is one that will allow you to find and facilitate possibilities for people
As such you:
- Tend to want internships in which the work is future focused and has an impact on human development.
- Might be drawn to internships in psychology, research, literature, art, music, academia, and sociology.
- Prefer internships that require you to be understanding and use your communication skills to perform your work. As an intern, you do not need to see tangible results on a daily basis as long as you know your efforts are directed at supporting the health and wellness of others.
A few popular internship choices for people with similar results are:
The best internship environment for you.
You may prefer a specialized environment in which concentration on critical functions is prized. You may tend to prefer internships in an organizational structure that is flat instead of hierarchical. You may prefer that the role of each individual is clear and determined by the different functions required by certain levels of education and expertise.
The best kind of boss for you.
You may prefer internships in which the leader is warm, person-centered, and adaptable. You appreciate leaders who embrace their interns as unique individuals first and workers second. While these leaders sometimes struggle with making difficult decisions regarding employees, they review each situation separately and analyze it, to determine the best solution given the circumstances. These are leaders who create a “family” environment at work.
Your style of interning and strengths in an internship.
You are more likely to have your heart-strings pulled than others. You are deeply influenced by your emotions and have a gift for empathizing with and seeing good in others that is lost to their counterparts.
You are able to evaluate situations in human terms. You show outstanding relationship management, client advocacy and customer service.