Your first challenge may be adjusting to your first full-time job - 40 hours a week for 5½ months! Most students find the experience of working at a real job in a large organisation very rewarding, but many say they have never worked so hard. Adjusting to the conventions and standards of the business world may also take time, with certain expectations to meet in areas like dress, conduct, attitude, judgment, responsibility and tact.

Your time management skills will be put to the test, particularly in the second Internship, as you are required to juggle the demands and deadlines of work and study. You have to plan your work very well to meet these deadlines, often without the benefit of direct supervision.

Each Internship includes a project where students are required to produce a major report on their organisation and present their findings to senior management. This will be a report on a matter of substance and real interest to those managers, so your final presentation is in many ways a culmination of the entire Internship, and a truly valuable experience. Students are expected to organise the presentation themselves, inviting both sponsor and academic supervisors, and to utilise professional business presentation tools.

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