Benefits of bringing an intern into your company:
Fresh point of view
- Interns are great at doing SWOT analysis on your organization/ industry.
- Excellent chance to get a new pair of eyes on the issues you are struggling to solve.
- Opportunity to get feedback with on how things work within your organization.
Additional pair of hands (and feet!)
- Opportunity to get small "back burner" projects finished.
- Add additional help to your various teams.
Training opportunities for your team
- Build/strengthen your mentor system within the company/departments.
- Free stronger staff to accomplish more creative tasks or those where higher-level, strategic thinking or expertise is required.
- Chance to learn and experience new and different cultures.
- Learn new ways to deal with work issues.
Making Globalization a reality
- Support your organization's push into the global market.
- Help your organization become globally minded.
- Find areas in your team/organization that need to adapt to a global approach.
Be a socially minded Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) organization
- Good opportunity for your company to participate in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
- Providing an internship allows that job to facilitate a positive future for the intern.
- Allow the future generation of global workforce to understand the strengths of Japan and your organization’s values/missions.
Low risk opportunity to onboard global talent
- Short term commitment with long-term effect.
- Test to find the correct 'fit' for global talent to enter your organization.
Take advantage of low-cost labor (not cheap labor!)
- While the wage requirements of an intern are much lower than of a full-time staff they're among the most highly motivated members of the workforce at the same time.
- You aren't obligated to pay unemployment or a severance package should you not hire them.
- Low investment from a training point of view for an opportunity to receive great output and new insights from a global perspective.
- Investment in an intern is not only monetary: building life skills from an internship is most important.
- Compensation to an intern comes in many forms.
Benefits of becoming an intern:
Real life work experience
- Nothing in a textbook or a class will match what you will gain from an internship.
- Deal with real-life work issues that have immediate and real impact on the organization.
- Experience current and immediate needs of an organization first hand.
Interaction with professionals
- Work with some of the most influential movers and shakers in the industry you care about.
- Learn from market leaders.
- Be mentored by someone who will answer and help you with your questions/issues.
Test the market
- An excellent opportunity to confirm your interest in your industry of choice.
- Find your strengths and weaknesses and how to work on them.
- Take the chance to do various duties during the internship to challenge many tasks.
Get your foot in the door
- This is an opportunity that is not easy to come by, relish it!
- More than 50% of intern positions turn into full-time roles.
- Perfect your "AAA": (Always Actively Approach) skills
- Opportunities are made, not found; make them!