Besides experience, what else can you benefit from when joining as an intern? Follow the list below for more benefits.

Connect what You’re Learning in the Classroom: If you are a cybersecurity undergrad, one of the problems you may encounter is connection. You may be learning about proxy servers in the classroom, for instance, but the absence of connection could reside within you as you apply this concept to the real world. Besides hearing people use proxy servers to cover up their online footprints, a bad idea in the first place, how else could proxy servers be used, specifically to the corporate setting? Through a cybersecurity-related internship, you will be able to witness first hand how a proxy server works in the corporate setting. In simple words, connection is created when applying both facets (academic and corporate) to the overall picture.

A Network: Possibly one of the most important aspects to an internship applies to a network of people. Internships provide you with the capabilities to collaborate with almost all areas within a company, not just cybersecurity. It is through a network where opportunities will open and shape your future career related ventures. Having a kick-start to this process, through internships, can and will help you in the future.

Communication: If you do not learn how to communicate with people, both physically and virtually (ex. email), you will not develop a prosperous career. Learning how to communicate with your managers, coworkers, and possibly other interns will help you formulate a network and understand the dynamics of effective communication.

Being in a Corporate Setting: Everyday, unless it’s a remote internship, you will walk into the corporate office. Why does this matter? You will start to understand the dynamics of how “work life” demands of your time for the future related ventures. Useful or engaging activities, such as meetings, collaborative efforts, happy hours, fun events, etc will help aid you into immersing yourself into a corporate community and manage time efficiently.

Learning from Your Mistakes: Let’s be honest, if you are a student, you are going to make many mistakes. Specifically to cybersecurity, there is an array of mass information to learn on a consistent basis. Making mistakes is part of your learning process as an intern. Utilize this time on the job on how to specifically handle your mistakes and of course, learn from them.

Beginner Work: There is an amass of information in the cyber field, overload would be an understatement at this point in IT security as the field grows everyday. There is a need for more people than skill within the cyber field. This is where interns come in… Since you are a beginner – you will most likely be tasked with beginner work. Your responsibilities could be useful to your learning process, but will not be overwhelming. Beginner work provides an equalizer between the two spectrum’s.

Add Value to Daily Processes: By the end of your internship, you will be able to witness how the projects and tasks you worked on throughout your time added value to the daily process of a business.