What is an Internship?

An Internship is a practice of pre-professional working experience for students or post graduates in order to apply their knowledge, improve their skills and gain professional experience in their field of study.

According to the Higher Education Law in Republic of Macedonia (“The Public Enterprise Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia “No. 35/08, 103/08 and 26/09) all students starting their higher education from fall 2010 onwards will have to complete at least 30 days of an internship in every academic year.

Internship Value

For Students, internship helps them in career decision making. Furthermore, internship adds academic value to students; they earn academic credits for internship in Macedonia. Students who attend internship program earn valuable practical experience by working in professional environment and increase their networking having chance to interact with industry professionals.

Benefits for students attending internship!

  • Internship increase professional commitment to students and gain practical real-life experience.
  • Internship builds up students CV and gives them better opportunity for finding job.
  • Company’s employee from their interns.
  • Internship provides students to test their chosen concentration in practice. This means that students can see whether they like that professional engagement or if they dislike, gives them plenty of time to choose more appropriate career path for their future.

Prepare to apply for internships

  • Attend the CV & Cover letter and Job searching strategies trainings organized by the Career Center in order to gain more knowledge on how to prepare for applying for internships.
  • Prepare a CV and cover letter that will be updated and factual and will be ready whenever you have the need.
  • Contacting internship positions

After you have identified your potential internship positions you will try and contact them either personally or through the Career Center, you will send your CV and a brief description of what motivated and persuaded you to seek out that particular position.

Concluding the internship

After the internship has been concluded, all the documents including the evaluation forms for the student and company should be filled in and returned to the Career Center.

Receiving Academic Credits

Upon completion of an internship and brought to the Career Center complete documents signed by all parties, students will receive ECTS credits in accordance with the academic program.

 

 

 

List of Companies our students have completed their internships:

 

–          GFK

–          Ad Elem

–          Advokat Nikola Paunoski

–          Advokat Popovski

–          Akota

–          Albsig

–          Arikom Dooel

–          Arkom

–          Babilon

–          Bajar

–          Belina

–          Bilj. Revizija

–          Centar za stranski jazici

–          Datakom

–          Dekot kamen

–          Diners

–          Diro DOO

–          Dom Italija

–          Ds- dam sinovi

–          Geoas Group

–          Gido Doo Veles

–          Horizont

–          Hotel Imperial

–          IK Banka

–          Ilirika

–          IMB

–          Imleksel

–          Infinite solutions

–          Izvrsitel Zoran Dimov

–          JSP Skopje

–          Vmro-NP

–          Waptec

 

–          k-15

–          KB

–          Kinzor

–          Kongresen servisen centar

–          Lexika Bitola

–          Makedonski Telekom

–          Multisped

–          Nova Makedonija

–          Ohrid Institut

–          Ohridska Banka

–          One

–          OPM

–          Osiguritelna Polisa

–          OU Naim Frashari

–          Porsche

–          Primeko Revizija

–          Prvo penzisko drustvo

–          Rikomak

–          Rudina

–          Seavus

–          Semos

–          Setra

–          Specijalna Oprema

–          Stopanska Banka

–          T- Mobile

–          Target comm

–          TTK Banka

–          Tutunska Banka

–          UACS

–          Uni Banka

–          Univel

–          Yellow pages