Internship

Internship is a good opportunity to get first-hand experience in a real working environment.

the six credit point course in our programme, HIK6431.HT - Practice, is a good opportunity to get first-hand experience in a real working environment. It permits to apply subject-specific knowledge, as well as  transferable skills acquired during other courses of the programme and analyse oneā€™s own skills and knowledge, both prior to and after the traineeship. It can also be an opportunity to try out oneā€™s ā€˜dream workā€™ for real, to test ways of applying a seemingly theoretical discipline in ā€œreal lifeā€, to pinpoint further development needs or even to discover something completely new about a  workplace.

The internship placement supervisors have especially valued the traineesā€™ ability to  show initiative, problem-solving orientation, empathy, efficiency at teamwork, good oral and written language skills, ability to take a leadership role, motivation, willingness to learn, good social skills and self discipline.

Below you will find some stories of our students, a list of other places where our students have carried our their internship, and some guidelines for doing your own internship.
 

Stories of our students

Ramona Deville spent her four month internship with the German Studies of Tallinn University, supervised by Aigi Heero, and gained a lot of new and insightful experiences - especially connected to teaching, which meant that even as a native speaker she was not bored in German class. Read what Ramona writes about her experience.

Ajibola Jerome Imezerua discovered that doing his internship in a technology company Swappie, supervised by Marcelline Anwi, can enhance transferable skills like communication, problem-solving and digital skills. Read what Jerome writes about his experience.

Arina Aleksejeva had always though that working in a museum would be boring but found it to be quite different as she got involved in arranging an exhibition and preparing some teaching and learning materials at , supervised by Jelena TŔekulajeva.
Read what Arina writes about her experience.

Suzanna Eisel has always dreamt about working for a publishing house and had her dream fulfilled when she joined Tallinn University Press for her traineeship, supervised by Rebekka Lotman. Read what Suzanna writes about her experience.

Trinh Tuong had to remain in her home country, Vietnam, because of the pandemic and could not travel back to Estonia. Rather than being inactive, she decided to use this situation and do her traineeship with an international company Happy International Service Enterprise, supervised by Chien-Ya Hsu. 
Read what Trinh writes about her experience.
 

RJ Malabanan sought for international and local internship places and sent out many requests to different institutions yet found himself empty-handed after all the effort. As a dedicated student he asked our staff for help and ended in, what might be considered a dream internship place for many, , supervised by Maarja Merivoo-Parro. Read what RJ writes about his experience.

Other places of internship

 

 

Internship guidelines

The most detailed and up-to-date information is available in (no enrolment key required). Below is a summary of the main points.
According to the nominal division of the study programme, internship takes place in the 5th semester of your studies. However, you may do your internship earlier, in the 3rd-4th semester, or during the summer.

  • You should find your internship organisation on your own. Please double check the suitability with the programme administrator Ksenia Shmydkaya. If you need some help, it is useful for us to know what kind of traineeship you would like to do or in what type of organisation. In some cases, it helps if the contact is established by us as the university representatives rather than by you as ā€œjust another studentā€. Sometimes internship opportunities are posted in the Moodleā€™s .
  • Practice (HIK6431.HT) is a course that you take in order to finalize your internship experience. It consists of one final seminar where you present your internship results in front of your peers. It is graded as pass/fail (on the basis of your portfolio and presentation) and is worth 6 ECTS. You can register for this course in any semester, as long as your internship ends (and you can submit your full internship portfolio) before the final seminar. For further details, please see .
  • Your internship portfolio must consist of the following documents: Pre-internship assessment, Internship journal, Post-internship self-analysis, Internship placement supervisorā€™s confirmation letter and evaluation, Slides from your presentation. and are available in Moodle.

P.S. Donā€™t forget to explore Erasmus traineeship options!