For A Post COVID-19 World, Internship Programs Too Must Adapt And Go Virtual – Entrepreneur

For A Post COVID-19 World, Internship Programs Too Must Adapt And Go Virtual – Entrepreneur

While the ability to sit down physically in the same office as our interns and spend a full day working with them has been taken away from us this year, the reasons for us wanting to have interns and engage with students hasn't changed.





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July

30, 2020



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Today is the international day for interns. But this year has been different, and it's been a tough couple of months for people working in talent management. The cherry on the cake has been the issue of schools and universities. Now is the time of year when we're focused on internships, on bringing in young talent, the next generation of engineers, marketers and finance people, to take up summer internships.

You don't need me to tell you that things haven't panned out as planned. In early March, just as the first signs of lockdown were coming into force, we were about